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Exceptional Scans, Some Frustrational Jambs :~(
By Lucky2bGorgeous on Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2011
PROS: * No Wait Warm Up * Exceptional Scans of Text, Color and Gray Scale * Light Platform * ADF up to 40 sheets * Epson Software has Home, Office and Professional Mode * Hamrick Software (The BEST for Photos) compatible CONS: * NON-Duplex Scanning * Occasional Jamb, Mis-Feeds Comments: Faced with a project of digitizing all my Treasure Magazines, Operational Manuals, the usual onslaught of Bills and Misc, it was apparent to me that using my trusty Epson Perfection 4870 Scanner would be tedious. After a day or two researching the reviews on Amazon, Buzzilion, Epinons and Google-Yahoo Searchers, I decided on the Epson Workforce GT-1500. Amazon seemed to have the most competitve price including service so within 5 business days, I received my brand new GT-1500. Software Installation and USB Hook-up to my Dell Laptop (Windows 7) was a breeze. I had de-spined a bunch of magazines & manuals in preparation of the 'project' using a 17 Page Rated Guillotine Cutter by XACTO. I used the Epson Office Mode with enhance of the text descreening. Since the Treasure Magazines (Western and Eastern, Lost Treasure, Treasure Found, Treasure, Treasure Search) use a Combination of Color and Black and White, I found the easiest method was to scan all the pages in Color and then improve the contrast and brightness control via paperport. On Operational Manuals, I used either Gray Scale (150 dpi) or Black & White Text (300 dpi) and tweak the results via Epson Scan and then tweaking the results further using the tools found in Paperport 12.1 depending on a variety of factors. All my scans were saved in PDF format to Paperport 12.1 where you can also make each PDF document searchable. On a limited basis scanned a few photos and the results were spectacular and better than my Epson Perfection 4870 Photo Scanner. Issues: Occasionally because of the thin pages of the magazines, the ADF would draw in 2 pages causing a jamb up. This was easily cleared and restarted when the amber warning light was flashing... then restarting to the static green (go) light. Once bothsides were scanned, a press of the coallate (ALL) would sort both sides properly and then saved to paperport. SOMETIMES though a mis-feed caused usually by a log jamb in the lower bin or a Hiccup in the scanning separation of each page would put the GT-1500 in a BLINKING Green Mode where the software goes into a ZOMBIE state and the only way to correct the situation is to RESTART the software and start over. I called EPSON support and spent 30 minutes with Tech Support and there was no way to RESUME scanning when the scanner goes to a Blinking Green with the Software Mis-Functioning. I will try the Hamrick Software in which I have a lifetime registration. Hamrick Software makes for the BEST results in Photo, Film and Slide Scanning and works well with the Epson GT-1500 although a bit slower on the scans. One last thing... the Epson Perfection 4870 (90) Software in its automatic mode can look at a document and determine whether to scan it Color, Gray Scale or Text fairly reliably. Like to see that software feature incorporated in the ADF process software for the GT-1500 or future models. Conclusion: I really like my GT-1550 and 4870. Is a V-750 in my future???
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7 people found this helpful
Decent low priced scanner
By mwarren101 on Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2020
Ok, Had this thing for a few weeks now. As a flat bed scanner, the software and flat bed are great for scanning high resolution images into the computer. We have been archiving old family pix and creating thumbdrives for use with electric picture frames. Very satisfied with the results. However, the PRIMARY use of this machine is for multiple page documents to capture finance data for the destruction of paper files. For duplex scanning it is a pretty quick job. Does have a tendency to skew the occasional paper and jam but tolerably not very often. The issue that brings the overall rating way down for us is the lid of the scanner. There is a separator that snaps into the lid that directs the paper into the receiver bay for the documents. In this separator is a clear flimsy plastic window that is adhered into the the end and snaps into the other side. This window is easily scratched and picks up any residue from scanned documents. Anyone that works to scan documents knows the print job is often marred with residue from laser printers and cheap inkjets. This residue is easily transferred to the flimsy plastic window in the scanner lid. It is impossible to remove the scratches and residue from the window. This creates long lines vertically on the image. Looked for an image count or page count for the scanner but was unable to figure out if it tracks this data. My guess is something like 300-350 total scanned pages. Wish I would have spent the extra $150 and bought a Scan Snap from the competition. I have used one of these for documents only in the past and they are capable of a quick cleaning and doing hundreds of documents even in a not pristine or clean environment. Plus they have a MUCH smaller footprint than a flat bed design. I will keep this one for pictures since it uses an easily cleaned flatbed and have many many more to get scanned. If your requirement is extremely light duty document scan and heavy individual item scanning requiring lifting the flatbed lid then this would be ok. For a more professional level document scanner, spend a little more and get the SCansnap.
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