Scanners that work with Microsoft ARM processer

I just bought a surface pro 11 with ARM and having the same issue connecting my ScanSnap scanner IX500. I called the company and the agent told me that the IX1600 would connect to the computer via Wifi instead of a USB cable. So what you said seems to confirm this.

Good News.

EPSON ES-50 portable scanner installed successfully to my Microsoft SURFACE 7 ARM today.
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Just a quick update. Looks like Epson already has support for many of their printers and scanners. Epson Scan 2 is supported on Windows 11 ARM.

For example for my Expression Home 2205 Multifunction: https://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=AU&CTI=98&PRN=XP-2200%20Series&OSC=W1164 would download Epson Scan 2. Windows 11 ARM is now an option when looking for downloads.

For printers, the Epson Universal Print Driver might work reasonably well, otherwise the basic Windows drivers work adequately.

There is also updates on Epson's upcoming full features drivers for Windows ARM on one of the webpages.

Hope this helps those still looking... This is an old post.

I do agree with you the Surface 7 has been rolled out without much thought of how people use a laptop. By itself it’s a great laptop, good battery life, good performance, and lightweight. BUT, I don’t want Co-pilot, my TurboCad design programs are now defunct and my three elderly all-in-one’s don’t work along with a handful of other programs. When I spoke to Microsoft they said that VueScan could not be given a signature, it was not within their policy. VueScan works although it does not print or copy. Canon said they had no plans to release ARM64 drivers. There is a Canon web page that names compatible printers with ARM64 compatibility and they are about 98% old printers that you might find on e-Bay. It is true that a lot of printer/scanners will work under Linux (closer to MAC OS) and I was seduced into installing WSL (Windows SubSystem for Linux). It was a rabbit hole, it took me about a month to work out how to use Linux, but then I discovered that CUPS had had updates so that old drivers would still not work. The Debian Linux I have got working is pretty wobbly and unstable and I would not want to trust my work wholly to it. In the end I settled for a small but new Intel laptop that is like a print/work corner of my home office, and the Canon grand-daddy bought in about 2013 is the centrepiece. Why is it so difficult for brilliant computer nerds to write ARM64 drivers? The entire thing is a b….y mess!

Thanks Tien Lee for your super helpful post. I am pleased to say my old Canon imageClass MF4800 scanner has sprung into life on the new Surface Laptop 7 with VueScan. If you can get through the tortuous process of disabling MS's Driver Signature Enforcement you're there.

ARM64 is the consumer SKU, right? Lunar Lake (x86) is the business SKU, right? IT IS INEXCUSABLE that a CONSUMER has to do backflips disabling signature driving to get an ESSENTIAL hardware to work with ARM64. To me it is absolute proof that M$ doesn't give flip about ARM64 - it was totally a ruse to get Intel off its backside and up its processor and NPU game to back M$'s (mis)adventure into AI.

In fact, is M$'s strong-arm abandonment of Windows 10 really for security and improvements in Windows 11, or is it to pressure users into Copilot and enhancing their bankroll?

PS - this is why I'm typing this on a M4 MacBook Pro after DOS/Windows since my Toshiba T1100 in 1986. Apple's ARM based processors can handle ALL my printers, scanners, and other devices, and they only have a fraction of the market compared to x86.