The Epson Perfection V550 Photo features amazing performance and versatility for any project. 6400 dpi resolution ensures images are sharp and vivid, whether you're scanning film, slides, negatives, photos or everyday documents.
Hello mark1939, Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Community. I know how important it is to be able top keep your scanner up and running. I use mine almost every day. The error you are seeing often appears when the drivers for a peripheral like a scanner or printer are outdated and no longer work with the Mac OS.
To update the driver I'd recommend checking out Epson's support site, which you can find here: There you should be able to select your version of OS X and get the latest driver for your scanner. If you have any trouble after that, let the community know, and we'll work together to find a solution, or help you get in touch with Epson for support. Best Regards. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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VueScan is compatible with the Epson Perfection V550 on Windows x86, Windows x64, Mac OS X and Linux. This scanner has an infrared lamp for scanning film. VueScan's 'Filter Infrared clean' option can be used to remove dust spots from film scans. This is similar to (and we think better than) the ICE and FARE algorithms. It scans with visible light in the first pass and with infrared light in the second pass. Infrared cleaning works well with all types of color negative and color slide film, including Kodachrome. However, silver-based black/white film doesn't work with infrared cleaning because the silver particles look the same in visible light and infrared light.
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You need to install the driver to use this scanner on Windows x86 and Mac OS X. On Mac OS X, this is normally already installed by Software Update, so VueScan should just work. You need to install the driver to use this scanner on Linux. Note that Epson drivers for Windows Vista or later will usually work on Windows 10. Drivers for Mac OS X 10.6 or later will also usually work on Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra).