Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Epson WorkForce Pro GT S50 Assessments

By Loma Mcthige


The epson workforce pro gt s50 from Epson is a desktop document scanner. It features a 75-sheet automatic document feeder and scans each 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 bigger than most desktop document scanners, but not terribly so. It's 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 towards the GT-S50 through USB 2.0

Physically, the GT-S50 (which comes having a regular one-year warranty) is typical for document scanners in its cost 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 with the trays extended. Setup is typical as well. Set the scanner in location, open the top cover (which turns in to the input tray), extend the output tray at the bottom front, install the software, and plug in a USB cable and power cord.

Epson also earns praise for placing a 16-character LCD menu on the front panel. Most document scanners include a scan button, a one-character display, and one or much more buttons for moving through the numbers 1 via 9 on the display. You are able to define scan profiles (with the resolution, color mode, and exactly where to send the scan for instance), attach each profile to a number, after which pick the number before hitting the scan button. The issue with this regular method is that you need to keep in mind which scan profile goes with each number. Epson lets you add a description towards the profile, and shows it on the LCD menu, making it a great deal easier to choose the right profile.

The GT-S50 handles text recognition reasonably well. In my tests utilizing FineReader, it read each Arial and Occasions New Roman fonts at sizes as small as 10 points without a mistake. I ran into some problems with BizCard, however. As installed, the plan 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 program scanned stacks of cards, but additionally showed repeated error messages, although everything worked.




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