Comments on: Epson GT-S50 Scanner thoughts

By: admin

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:05:46 +0000

I’ve been using two programs for scanning – Adobe Acrobat, or PDFScanner (About $20 from the app store)
Both of those programs let you create a multi page PDF doc, either by scanning all 4 pages at once or by scanning separately and appending to the current document.

I really like PDFScanner, because it’s very fast and efficient for 8.5×11 scans.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:28:58 +0000

I have just purchased the GT-S50.
I wanted to send a 4 page doc. After scanning it appears that I have to attach each page seperately. Is there a way to attach all 4 so the recipient can open and print all 4 at once?

By: admin

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:32:09 +0000

No the button took forever.
I’ve started using a program called pdfscanner on the app store – I think its $15 or $20.
It scans PDF’s faster than anything I’ve tried – Very responsive and doesn’t use Twain.
Check it out.

By: keram

keram — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:47:44 +0000

did anyone solve issue of slow scans when Start button is clicked on scanner? just called support and they suggested to try different usb cable. image capture works well as well as epsonscan. i like these different type of jobs to be fired when I have stack for double scanning or single side…

By: admin

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:49:42 +0000

The Epson’s been working ok for me in 10.7.
I’ve been using a $15 program called PDFScanner from the app store to do most of my full page scanning and it’s working out great.

By: clyde2801

clyde2801 — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:41:08 +0000

Bought the gt-s50 at office depot Friday for my office. Having problems using it with OSX 10.7. Despite using the latest downloads from epson’s site and apple update, only the Epson scan app works satisfactorily. The Epson device manager and the buttons on the front have such a lag time (more than one minute) to make them unusable. Really a pity, the hardware appears to work better than my Fujitsu S500; it does do a good job of scanning photographs and ID’s.

No word on Epson on when (or if!) they’ll be releasing 10.7 drivers and software for this scanner, even though it’s the only workforce model you can actually find and buy in the real world!

Oddly enough, my Fujitsu S500 hasn’t had a single problem with the transition to 10.7, even though it was a windows model hacked to work with Mac!

The Epson promised greater flexibility with twain drivers, but so far it makes using 3rd party scanning software a necessity rather than an option. So, Fujitsu for the win, and Epson for the return.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:53:20 +0000

I have not tried this.

By: CornersKir

CornersKir — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:47:23 +0000

Have you ever tried to use acquisition frame with GT-S50? I used TWAIN programming interface with EZTwain and DAT_IMAGELAYOUT. I used different scanning components. I always faces with correct vertical work and absolutely incorrect horizontal work. Can this be solved?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:12:14 +0000

Just an update that Epson released new drivers that mentioned addressing some image capture issues recently.
I have tried the drivers, but have not tried image capture from within any apps as my workflow pretty much settled in on using Acrobat to scan things in now.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:09:33 +0000

First to clear up some specs, the GT-S50 is rated to scan 50 page ‘impressions’ (sides) per minute. this assumes 25 sheets of paper, double sided, black and white, at 200dpi.
unfortunately, if you’re only scanning single sided pages, you still only feed 25 sheets a minute.
This is true of all high end scanners including the fujitsu scansnaps and the higher end fujitsu’s.

The other thing that is true of all scanners is that scan speed slows dramatically as the DPI count goes up.
in other words, if you need to scan 300 dpi, you’re looking at more like 10-12 sheet feeds a minute (thats still one ever 6 seconds or so which isn’t bad)

You didn’t say if your running Windows or Mac, or what your needs are (Sounds like you just need PDF files created & I’ll assume you’re on Windows)
If my assumptions about your needs are correct, you might try out the Fujitsu scansnap S1500 scanner (or the slower S1300) The Fujitsu scanscaps have some limitations – you can only use them with the software they provide, but they do come with acrobat, and they are pretty well streamlined around scanning to PDF’s all day long. For my needs, I wanted/needed twain compatibility and the ScanSnaps don’t have that.

A few other tips I can give you.
Make sure you’re using the latest drivers from Epson’s website.
Start by having the scanner plugged directly into a usb port on the back of the machine – do not use a usb hub or switch – you can add those in later once you know the scanner works.
If you have adobe acrobat, use that to do your scans, (My mac edition has a ‘document’ menu, then ‘scan to pdf..’ windows should have something similar.
At least on the mac, I’ve noticed the scanner seems to have 3 speeds: 200 dpi and below is blazingly fast and is likely the published 50 ppm, 300dpi is probably half speed of 200dpi and 600dpi is about 1/4 speed.
I find that 200dpi is fine for most of my needs so that’s what I use.
Also, at least on the mac, it feels like the scanner has a buffer of about 4 pages or so. If I drop in a stack of papers, a few will shoot through really fast, then it will pause then grab a few more, etc. I believe it must scan to an internal buffer then send that buffer to the Computer. Knowing this could help you pick setting that are less annoying. ie scanning 8 pages Black and white single sided at 200dpi might be not fill the buffer, while scanning one or two double sided color pages at 600dpi very well might cause the scanner to pause as it sends that data to the PC.

I hope this helps