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Item #: EPSB11B194011. This hard-working scanner will help you achieve maximum productivity with its 25ppm, 50 ipm scan speeds and duplex scanning in just one pass. 75-page auto document feeder allows for multiple document scanning without constant supervision. You`ll save time with the ultrasonic double-feed detection, which determines whether two documents are going through at once, so you can avoid missed pages and frequent paper jams. Scan business cards, rigid ID cards, and documents up to 8.5 x 36 for versatile paper handling capabilities. High-volume duty cycle of up to 1,200 sheets per day offers reliable performance. Front control panel with 10 user-definable functions including scan-to-PDF. Global Product Type: Scanners; Operating System Compatibility: Mac® X 10.9.5 -10.5x; Windows® 2000, XP, VistaTM; Scan Size (W x H): 8 1/2 in x 34 in; Bit Depth of Color: 48 bit internal; 24 bit external.
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FAST!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a very fast document scanner. The software that comes with it is fine for a small office. It looks and feels sturdy. The duplex scanning ability is very useful in my office and saves much time. I especially like being able to scan longer documents and not being limited to legal sized paper for scanning. This scanner is worth every penny if you want to truly go paperless in your office.
Wonderful scanner.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We replaced our HP 7650 Scanjet flatbed scanner for this Epson. The set-up was easy and the results were perfect.
If you do not need a flatbed scanner, this one is highly recommended.
kim, ohio
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have only had this scanner for a couple of weeks, i’m in the process of eliminating paperwork in my small office and it has been one of the best purchases i’ve ever made for my office! Scans quickly, everything from receipts to pictures I’m loving the concept of being able to see my desktop again! lol I never get around to filing things and have run out of room in my file cabinets so this scanner has been a great solution for me. It’s easy to set up, much more compact than i expected, easy to use and the scans are very clear and easy to read.
Does not work with Windows 7!!!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This scanner MAY work, but certainly not with Windows 7 (64 bit). I spent countless hours trying to get it to work and even got to Level 3 of Technical Support. They could not get it working. Even reinstalled Windows 7 and attempted to get it to work on a “virgin” installation of the OS. Epson is buying it back from me.
It’s obvious that their QA and Testing procedures need a complete overhaul. They should never have claimed compatibility with Windows 7. It gets 1 star ONLY because I had to mark something. If it were allowed, I would have given it ZERO stars.
My Fujitsu will arrive today. Hopefully it will work.
Works great on my Mac Pro except:
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Pros:
-> F – A – S – T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I scanned a 14-page document (two-sided) and had a PDF in less than 30-seconds!
-> Very good fidelity: the document was printed on my HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier (#Q8220A) and looked fairly good in hand. The PDF generated by the GT-S50 looked a bit light in comparison to the hands-on copy, but nothing I couldn’t fix in Elements if I felt the need. It’s a very good copy. I plan to mess with this for the near future, just to see what I can get out of it without too much effort/time invested (assuming a home- or small-office wouldn’t want to put a full time person on this to get their scans out…
-> Small. No really small! I set it on top of my HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier (#Q8220A) and if it was the same cream color as the all-in-1, it’d look like an attachment piece instead of a completely separate unit!
-> Easy to set up and use.
-> It’s an excellent scanner for librarying photos. Stacked several of varying finishes into the doc feeder, fired ‘er up and onto the computer goes the pic. Really cool! (Too bad it doesn’t do slides ;-} )
Cons (so far):
-> Typical Epson software – lots of software! Stuff is squirreled all over my computer! It’s been like this since my first Epson flatbed scanner about 12-years ago.
-> UPDATE: uninstalled all Epson software. Downloaded and installed the drivers and software from Epson’s Snow Leopard site. Now both my Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Imaging Scanner and my Epson WorkForce GT-1500 B11B190011 Document Imaging Scanner (White) are available under scanners preferences.
OUTDATED BY PREVIOUS: Isn’t available in Snow Leopard’s printer preferences to be able initiate scans from my Apple MacBook Pro 17 inch MA611LL/A over airport (testing still IP). Just found (on Epson’s website) that I (perhaps) shouldn’t have installed the included software onto my Mac Pro! There was no BIG RED NOTE in the box about this!!!
This would be an excellent scanner for small-to-mid-sized offices.
GREAT GREAT GREAT!!!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Easy to use, great quality. It’s a work horse, fast scans good quality and with the right software you can do anything with the scans.
Wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Easy to use and excellent for scanning pictures
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve had this product for a few months now and could not be more pleased with it. I have used it for its main purpose – to scan in documents, business cards, receipts, etc- and it is an excellent little machine and very simple to use. It does duplex scanning (both sides of the paper at once), the software includes handwriting recognition and converts it into type (OCR) and also includes a Carrier sheet for scanning pictures.
What I am finding it most useful for, though, is for scanning in our many hundreds of family pictures that we have from before the arrival of digital cameras. Surviving only in hard copy (and most of them without negatives) it is finally easy to scan, email and share these pictures. I had tried using a flatbed scanner but it was tedious and time consuming. With this machine I can put all the pictures from an album into a neat little pile on the feeder and the machine scans them very very quickly. The owner’s guide recommends using the Carrier sheet for scanning pictures but I have scanned hundreds without it and have not seen any signs of damage to the machine or to the pictures. I’m using Picasa to sort and load the pictures onto my computer and this part of the process does take a fairly long time. However, this may be an issue with Picasa and not the machine itself. The quality of the pictures is excellent even when I enlarge the pictures or zoom in.
Another thing I like about the machine is its small size. I currently have it set up on a closed cabinet in a book shelf. I open up the cabinet when I’m working and simply shut the doors when I am not.
The only downside I can think of is that the user’s guide was not included in a hard copy form. I like to have a manual to flip through when looking for information but that may be since I am used to the old days of working from books. If you have no problem with going to the user’s guide on your desktop, then this should not be an issue. Also, since it is fairly simple to use I only had to refer to the user’s guide a few times.
So this is a handy little machine for home or office use and I very highly recommend it.
Time Saver!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This scanner is just what I needed for my Real Estate business. I have lots of documents I need to scan and this scanner is the best! Easy to use, doesn’t jamb, and is fast in scanning and saving.
Excellent Duplex Document Scanner for SOHO Use
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
My Epson GT-S50 is exactly what I wanted. I use Docsvault Professional to scan in documents to PDF in my laptop. The GT-S50 makes it quick and easy to scan large documents of any size. For example, I scanned a two-sided insurance policy of 80 pages in minutes directly into Docsvault. I can also scan using CutePDF Professional if I don’t want to scan into the Docsvault respository. Their software can de-skew crooked pages. I particularly like that the software will recognize blank pages (with less than 2% ink coverage which is adjustable) and skip them. Only downsides: No flatbed, so I can’t scan pages from periodicals and books. But for that, I have my old Brother MFP. The scanner is USB-only; I would have liked to see an Ethernet port, or even a wireless adapter built in. Still, I would highly recommend this scanner for moderate duplex B&W or color document scanning. For it’s intended purpose, it works very well.
Great for scanning old pictures
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
While this is a document scanner, I purely use it for photo scanning.
I went looking for a service to scan old photos into jpegs and found out that my 2k+ pictures were going to cost me an arm and a leg to scan into DVD(s), so I went out to look for an alternative. Did quite a bit of research and came across this printer. However, I did not see anybody that was using it for that purpose. I went ahead and got one just to try it out. At $400+ it was pricey, but a whole lot cheaper than sending my pictures out to a service plus I have the flexibility to scan in any order I wanted and do it batches at a time. A service would also only do 300dpi and I had to pay extra for things like chronological scanning. However, I was afraid that since this scanner is really intended for documents, it would not offer enough quality for pictures.
After scanning hundreds of pictures, I could not be happier with my purchase. This scanner is amazingly fast even at 600dpi. It can handle any size picture I have thrown at it(I have used several sizes from 2″x2″ to 5″x7″ with the vast majority being 4″x6″), and the quality of the pictures is amazing. Since the path the scanner takes the picture through is pretty much straight, it does not create any distortion and the wear it puts on the picture is minimal.
So a very fast scanner, with awesome picture quality, and no jams, what is there not to like? Well, on the negative side, it took me about 3 hours to tweak all the settings to where I could figure out what the right settings were for picture scanning. You have to go to the event manager to set most options, but you have a different place to setup other options. Also, I have to feed all the pictures in portrait (short side in) which is kind of weird. So figuring out the software was not trivial, but all in all after everything was setup, it has worked great. In the end, I use Photoshop elements to get the pictures through the scanner using the Epson drivers. Tag and date the pictures and get them into my catalog. That has worked pretty well for me. Glad I bought it and I will feel better when all these pictures are digitized for safe keeping! I rate the scanner 5 stars for superb performance. For ease of use I rate 3 stars because it was a bit harder to setup and use for pictures than I thought it should be.
Excellent Product
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Scanner is well built and does everthing that I expected it to do. I thought that the scanner was easy to install. I used the scanner with Paperport vers: 12 and had not problems with the scanner being recognized.
Hardware Issues
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Specs are very good.
Lot of folks complained about software, and its true that its time consuming and tedious to install software for this scanner and its also true that some of the terminology used is ambiguous. Help Documentation is bad. For error lights flashing they are advising to reinstalled the software, crazy idea when errors are purely hardware related or paper jam.
However once installed software works o.k.
Problems I’ve faced are hardware related.
After few pages at 600 DPI scan to PDF, scanner stopped responding, software complained as it timed out. Checked for paper jam, there was no paper jam.
There is no way to clear error and Epson documentation states to power off and on the scanner. Did that and cleaned the paper path(though nothing was there as it was hardly few pages scanned and no paper ever jammed so far). Now scanner says initializing, forever, literally even after several hours its still initializing. Same thing after several computer and scanner restart. Bad hardware I guess. Just returned. Epson should do better quality check on their hardware, forever initializing after few power cycles is obviously bad hardware.
Best, fast, reliable Scanner
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I am grateful to AMAZON staffs who sent me this free delivery,
reasonable priced Scanner to me last week. I owned a HP Scanjet
N6010 before, and it almost never worked right.
Since last week, I have been using Epson Workforce
Pro GT S50 daily. I am a Commercial loan and real estate broker.
I would need to use this scanner daily and for more than
hundreds pages a day. This Scanner is the best in my experince.
It’s fast, very reliable, quality of scnning is may be one of the
best in the industry.
The sofware (paperport and Epson)it came with this scanner working very nicely.
I would strongly recommend this scanner to anyone.
Thank you Amazon and Epson!
-Ashraf Ahmed MBA Phone no 310 956 8726
Fantastic scanner!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
My scanning needs are pretty simple but specific, and this scanner met my needs right out of the box. Setup was a breeze, even though originally I would have liked a written manual instead of only online instructions. After setting it up using the “quick setup” page that came with the scanner, I realized I didn’t need anything else! I have double sided paper that I need to scan in amounts of 10-20 and then create a pdf file of the scanned sheets. Previously I was using a single sheet fed scanner, and it would take me easily 20 minutes or so for each file I needed to create with a pass required for each side, and really hard to “multi-task” while scanning. The Epson scanned the double sided pages with one pass in about 30 seconds. It even scans the wrinkly pages my students spill food all over! Processing took about 90 seconds longer, but easy to multitask while that happened. It was very easy to add other files to scanned files and create pdf folders using the software I have. I already had the full Acrobat 9, and everything was seamless, so didn’t install the PaperPort software. Needed to rename files so I could easily find what I need later, but no big deal at all. I’m catching up on 3 months of paperwork (yep, I was avoiding scanning because it was such a hassle), and I would say it is taking me about 10% of the time it would have before. Scanning used to be the bane of my existence, and now it’s almost fun because it is so quick! Even though my needs are pretty simple, this scanner was TOTALLY worth the price just based on the amount of time I will save, and how clean my desk will be without the annoying piles of paper that need to be scanned!
Software works poorly with my Mac Pro
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The device itself is fine, but the supplied software works very poorly with my Mac Pro. I often get a message saying that “Epson Scan Cannot Be Started.” I can typically get it work by resetting the power on the scanner, but in some cases I have had to reboot. The troubleshooting assistant is a joke. Even when the software works, it is very unimpressive.