Friday, April 27, 2012

Epson WorkForce Pro GT S50 Opinions

By Loma Mcthige


The epson workforce pro gt s50 from Epson is really a desktop document scanner. It features a 75-sheet automatic document feeder and scans both sides of a sheet of paper in one pass, at resolutions up to 600 dpi and 24-bit color.

The GT-S50 is a small larger than most desktop document scanners, but not terribly so. It is also the only document scanner we've tested with an LED status menu, which may be useful when difficulty shooting or utilizing presets. Your Mac connects to the GT-S50 via USB 2.0

Physically, the GT-S50 (which comes with a standard one-year warranty) is typical for document scanners in its price range. It measures 8.4 by 11.9 by 8.0 inches (HWD) using the input and output trays closed, or 15.9 by 11.9 by 15 inches using the trays extended. Setup is typical also. Set the scanner in place, open the leading cover (which turns into the input tray), extend the output tray in the bottom front, install the software program, and plug in a USB cable and energy cord.

Epson also earns praise for putting a 16-character LCD menu on the front panel. Most document scanners consist of a scan button, a one-character display, and one or more buttons for moving via the numbers 1 through 9 on the display. You can define scan profiles (with the resolution, color mode, and exactly where to send the scan for instance), attach every profile to a number, and then choose the number prior to hitting the scan button. The issue with this standard method is that you have to keep in mind which scan profile goes with every number. Epson lets you add a description towards the profile, and shows it on the LCD menu, creating it a great deal simpler to choose the proper profile.

The GT-S50 handles text recognition reasonably nicely. In my tests using FineReader, it read both Arial and Occasions New Roman fonts at sizes as little as 10 points without a mistake. I ran into some problems with BizCard, nevertheless. As installed, the program is set to read one company card at a time, which means you can't scan a stack of cards at once-another case of Epson stubbing its toe on a software program problem. After I changed the setting, the plan scanned stacks of cards, but additionally showed repeated error messages, although every thing worked.




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