{"id":19935,"date":"2025-04-02T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=19935"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:39:09","slug":"windows-10-11-drivers-for-epson-perfection-3170-photo-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/02\/windows-10-11-drivers-for-epson-perfection-3170-photo-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10\/11 Drivers for Epson Perfection 3170 Photo Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have an <a href=\"https:\/\/epson.com\/Support\/Scanners\/Perfection-Series\/Epson-Perfection-3170-Photo\/s\/SPT_B11B161011\">Epson Perfection 3170 Photo<\/a> scanner for years, it works great, and don&#8217;t want to replace it. Unfortunately, Epson hasn&#8217;t published drivers for Windows 10, 11, etc and choosing any of these OS&#8217; from their download page either results in a blank set of downloads, or a suggestion to download the <em>Epson Event Manager<\/em> which&#8230; doesn&#8217;t contain drivers. Great, thanks Epson. (And no, a driver doesn&#8217;t get automatically installed by Windows Update, either.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it turns out there is a way to get it working under Windows 10\/11\/etc, and that&#8217;s the point of this blog post: Choose <em>Windows Vista 64-bit<\/em> and download <a href=\"https:\/\/epson.com\/Support\/Scanners\/Perfection-Series\/Epson-Perfection-3170-Photo\/s\/SPT_B11B161011?review-filter=Windows+Vista+64-bit#panel-drivers-01-1\">Scanner Driver and EPSON Scan Utility\u00a0v3.04A<\/a>, filename <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.epson.com\/drivers\/epson12180.exe\"><code>epson12180.exe<\/code><\/a> (or get it from <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/files\/epson12180.exe\">this mirror<\/a>). This self-extracts to <code>C:\\epson\\epson12180_twain_driver_and_epson_scan_utility_304a<\/code> and includes a signed 64-bit TWAIN driver that works great on Windows 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an Epson Perfection 3170 Photo scanner for years, it works great, and don&#8217;t want to replace it. Unfortunately, Epson hasn&#8217;t published drivers for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2025\/04\/02\/windows-10-11-drivers-for-epson-perfection-3170-photo-scanner\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows 10\/11 Drivers for Epson Perfection 3170 Photo Scanner<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19936,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions\/19936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}