I have an Epson Perfection 3170 Photo scanner for years, it works great, and don’t want to replace it. Unfortunately, Epson hasn’t published drivers for Windows 10, 11, etc and choosing any of these OS’ from their download page either results in a blank set of downloads, or a suggestion to download the Epson Event Manager which… doesn’t contain drivers. Great, thanks Epson. (And no, a driver doesn’t get automatically installed by Windows Update, either.)
However, it turns out there is a way to get it working under Windows 10/11/etc, and that’s the point of this blog post: Choose Windows Vista 64-bit and download Scanner Driver and EPSON Scan Utility v3.04A, filename epson12180.exe (or get it from this mirror). This self-extracts to C:\epson\epson12180_twain_driver_and_epson_scan_utility_304a and includes a signed 64-bit TWAIN driver that works great on Windows 11.