April 25th, 2010 
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List Price : $641.24
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- 25 ppm/50 ipm1; duplex in one pass
- 1200 sheets-per-day duty cycle
- 75-page Auto Document Feeder
- 600 dpi optical resolution
- 10 user-definable, one-touch scan settings
Product Description
The WorkForce Pro GT-S50 document image scanner offers an amazing value with its remarkable reliability, powerful performance and easy-to-use features. With a daily duty cycle of up to 1200 sheets, plus a 75-page feeder, it’s ready to tackle any task in busy office environments. Scan everything from business cards to rigid ID cards and documents up to 8.5 x 36 inches.The GT-S50 easily scans both sides of one sheet in just one pass – in color, grayscale or bi-tonal. … More >>
Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Imaging Scanner
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The thing is very fast for our small business. We love the speed at which it will scan both sides of the document at the same time. We should have purchased one several years ago.
Rating: 5 / 5
This scanner is easy to use and does a very good job. I had some jamming issues but have determined what was causing it and the problem has been solved. Quality and speed of scanning is superb.
Rating: 4 / 5
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!
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 1 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5