• ADF Capacity:75 Sheets
• Color Depth:48-bit
• Grayscale Depth:16-bit

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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. The GT-S50 easily scans both sides of one sheet in just one pass in color, grayscale or bi-tonal.

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• Scanner Type: Sheet-fed, one-pass duplex color scanner
• Photoelectric Device: Color Epson MatrixCCD line sensor
• Optical Resolution: 600 dpi
• Output Resolution: 75 to 600 dpi
• Effective Pixels: 5,100 x 21,600 pixels
• Color Scan Mode (output bit depth): 48-bit internal/24-bit external
• Grayscale Scan Mode (output bit depth): 16-bit internal/8-bit external
• Monochrome (output bit depth): 1-bit
• Automatic Document Feeder
  • Capacity: 75 sheets
  • Speed: 25 ppm (Simplex); 50 ipm (Duplex) (A4 size, 200 dpi, Speed Priority)
  • Paper size Minimum: 2.1" x 2.9" (53.5 x 73.7 mm)
  • Maximum: 8.5" x 36" (216 x 914.4 mm)
  • Paper weight: 45 to 200 g/m2
  
  
• Buttons: 4 push buttons: Start, Cancel, Up-arrow, Down-arrow; Mechanical power switch
• Light Source: ReadyScan LED technology
• Interface: Hi-Speed USB 2.0
• Scanning Speed
  • Full Color: 1.230 msec/line
  • Grayscale: 1.230 msec/line
  • Monochrome (A4, 300 dpi): 1.230 msec/line
  
  
• Reliability
  • Daily duty cycle: 1200 sheets
  • Consumables: Roller assembly kit — 100,000 cycles
  
  
• Environment Conditions
  • Temperature: Operating 50 ° to 95 °F (10 ° to 35 °C)
  • Humidity: 10 – 80% (no condensation)
  
  
• Power Requirements
  • Voltage: 100 – 240 VAC
  • Frequency: 50 – 60 Hz
  • Power consumption: 40 W
  • Ready: 13 W
  • Sleep: 5.5 W
  • Off: 1 W
  
  
• Windows Requirements
  • Intel Pentium II 450 Mhz with 128MB of RAM (512MB of RAM for XP Professional x64 and Windows Vista) and 215MB of free hard disk space
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, XP Home Edition, XP Professional, XP Professional x64, Windows Vista (32/64-bit)2, USB 2.03
  
  
• Macintosh Requirements
  • PowerPC G3 400 Mhz or Intel-based CPU with 128MB of RAM or higher and 200MB of free hard disk space
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 – 10.5.x USB 2.0
  
  
• Other Features
  • Rigid plastic ID card scanning (including embossed cards)
  • Business card scanning
  • 10 user-definable one-button scan job settings with personalized job descriptions on LCD display
  • 2 line x 16 character LCD
  • Security lock (Kensington type)
  
  
• Physical Dimensions:
  • 11.9” (W) x 8.0” (D) x 8.4” (H)
  • 11 lb (5 Kg)
  
  
• Software
  • Epson Scan
  • EMC Captiva ISIS
  • ABBYY FineReader Sprint Plus OCR
  • Nuance ScanSoft PaperPort SE
  • NewSoft Presto! BizCard 5
  • TWAIN and ISIS drivers
  
  
• Warranty: One-year limited warranty in the U.S. and Canada
• What's in the Box?
  • WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner
  • CD-ROM with scanner software
  • CD-ROM with PaperPort software
  • Start Here poster
  • Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable
  • AC adapter with power cable
  • Carrier sheet
  

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  EpsonWorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner

   

  4.1

  (based on 116 reviews)

  

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    (19)

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  Great scanner!!

  The GT-S50 works great! Scans are consistently good quality, no misfeeds or shredded documents (5,000 pages and counting). Recommend it for personal or small workgroup scanning of documents of up to ~50 ...Read complete review

  The GT-S50 works great! Scans are consistently good quality, no misfeeds or shredded documents (5,000 pages and counting). Recommend it for personal or small workgroup scanning of documents of up to ~50 images. Scanning larger documents (to one PDF) is likely to take a while because after the computer converts a scanned image, it must then append it to the PDF file ... which takes progressively more time as the file size grows. After about 25 images, the scanner starts slowing down. At 50 images, it's crawling (from 20 PPM to 1 PPM). My computer is a new MacBook Pro with the fastest processor, has lots of processing power ... and the GT-S50 consumes every bit of it. The only issue I've experienced was during setup. The quick start guide says to install the software first, then connect the scanner. The software CD wouldn't install automatically so I located the folder on the CD with the software and manually installed it. The installed software didn't work. I then went to the Epson Support website (under Mac OS X - Lion) which said don't use the CD, just connect the scanner and Mac OS X will discover it and install the correct driver(s) ... which it did. Nice if Epson updated the quick start instructions to save this bit of extra (unnecessary) work. A nit: all of the bundled software (OCR, bizcards, etc.) are Windows apps. Nice if Epson would reflect this in their product materials. Bottom line: if you have a Mac, you get a scanner ... no software. :-(

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  Deadline-dead

  Ordered a workforce GT-S80. Arrived seemingly intact. Problems with freezing after installation. I live in the middle of nowhere. All epson could do is suggest I take it too a service center. My...Read complete review

  Ordered a workforce GT-S80. Arrived seemingly intact. Problems with freezing after installation. I live in the middle of nowhere. All epson could do is suggest I take it too a service center. My deadline has passed and I am returning my unit. Too bad, looked like possibly a good unit. Support is paramount when it comes to matters like this as is time.

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  5/11/2013

   

  5.0

  great product

  By Anonymous

  from Undisclosed

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  I run a small business real estate related. This Epson scanner is a little workhorse. I just love it. I work with thousands of pages in documents and it just keeps on going and going. This is one of my better investments.

  Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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  5/7/2013

   

  5.0

  Very Capable Machine

  By ImagingNut

  from San Diego, CA

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  Got this unit 4 days ago to replace an AIO not from Epson that was painfully slow at simplex scanning. What a remarkable difference! Throughput is dependent on host computer, as it blazes with a recent Mac Mini and is a little slower with a gen one G5 machine. Feed is relatively robust--800 pages of sometimes questionable paper and fewer than 5 misfeeds so far. I have worked well though a 4-year backlog of scanning quickly and shouldn't fall behind again.

  Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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  4/2/2013

   

  4.0

  Versatile quick scanner

  By Ken

  from Boston MA

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  I used one of these in my office for two years and liked it so much I bought one for home. I've had a few feed problems but there is usually a good reason such as thin sheets or punched holes that stick. The software could be a little more user friendly and flexible, but it gets the job done well. I dropped to 4 stars because the paper guide is not long enough to always keep the paper straight while scanning, and the receiving tray does not always keep the paper from falling out. Scanning quality is flexible and excellent with several resolutions and output formats to choose from. The included OCR software works well. I also scan photos and the resolution and color accuracy is good. I would buy another!

  Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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  3/30/2013

   

  5.0

  Why did I wait so long?

  By Edward Sr.

  from Flat Rock ,Michigan

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  I've been using a flat bed scanner for the last five or so years and been somewhat happy,but now I am totally amazed at how efficiently the new Pro- GT-s50 copies single and multiple pages. As I learn each new feature I am encouraged to experiment with both the program and the hardware because I know I am finally getting a hold on my record keeping and eliminating useless paperwork in my filing cabinets. Thanks Epson

  Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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  3/29/2013

   

  5.0

  Great Scanner

  By Riz

  from Benicia, CA

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  This is a great Scanner, we scan 150 to 200 pages a day of varius paper types and it really works great. We have had a rough worker breat the paper feed part which was hard to fix.

  Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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  3/28/2013

   

  1.0

  GT-S50 Does not age well

  By davehep

  from Washington state.

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  I have had a GT-S50 for about a year now. After about 6 months the scanner started to have problems. It stopped pulling all of the pages through. I would have to take the pages out and start again. Then it started pulling some of the pages through at an angle and wrinkling them. It doesn't do it all the time but often enough it makes it hard to scan a pile of pages. Then it started turning up the corner on some of the pages, sometimes the right side sometimes the left side. It worked very well when new. For the first 6 months I would have recommended this scanner to everyone.

  Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend

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  3/26/2013

   

  4.0

  Full of Features

  By Anonymous

  from New York

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  The GT-550 has many excellent features. Scanning directly to a specific folder on the computer. The scanning and converting to pdf's is slower than I expected. Other features which I am learning to use is the Presto Biz card software. It sounds interesting. I have not yet used it.

  Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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  3/26/2013

   

  4.0

  Good Scanner

  By Frank

  from Tulsa, OK

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  I love this scanner, it makes keeping copies of reciepts a breeze, my only problem is the document carrier tends to jam and hang up one half of the carrier in the machine, why I dont know it still handles flimsy reciepts just great.

  Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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  3/25/2013

   

  1.0

  Doesn't play well with others

  By Gregg

  from Chicago, IL

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  The software that comes with this product is not easy to install, does not work well with others, and has little or no tech support to help you through the installation process. My other scanner that I purchased from another company was cheaper and in my opinion much better at setup, easier to operate but with a slightly smaller capacity of feed pages.

  Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend

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  3/25/2013

   

  5.0

  Great scanner!

  By LAEVE

  from Los Angeles, CA

  Comments about Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner:

  This is a wonderful scanner. It's footprint is small and it's easy to store. The feeder is nearly flawless and the end product looks great. I have scanned up to 600 pages in a day and it generally is quite happy. Occasionally, it's cranky and grabs two pages at once but fanning the pages tends to reduce the possibility. And it is FAST FAST FAST!!! I haven't tried to scan anything but standard sized paper but that's enough for me. I've scanned documents up to 50 pages without a hiccup. Buy it. You won't be unhappy and you'll ask how you ever got along without it.

  Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

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  Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 Document Image Scanner

  48 bit Color - 16 bit Grayscale - 600 dpi Optical

  $365.30