Epson DS-530 Document Scanner: 35ppm, Twain & ISIS Drivers

BIG DEAL!! I came from a ScanNap fi-5110EOX2 a Fujitsu and I loved it! It was a work horse for more than 10 years. Finally got tired of 'duck taping' the software and spending time to get it to run on Win 10. Wish they would just through out a driver to keep up with the OS, but then they would get you to buy a new unit. So my reference for this review is Fujitsu standard of quality. Epson DS-530 was my choice after much research. It was this unit or the Fujitsu FI-7030 Desktop Scanner at $700. Both have TWAIN drivers and I wanted to go paperless with OneNote! (and future proof it a bit) I went with Epson due to it being half the price, but has gotten some really good reviews. This model is their newest and a bit of an upgrade to the DS-520. I don't need or want the WiFi option, so the DS-530 seemed perfect with all of the features of the Fujitsu. First Impression: WOW, it is super-fast compared to my 10yr old Fujitsu and the software compatibility is Great! I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10, since I had originally did the free upgrade from win 7. Glad I did for many reasons, but wanted to make sure I started fresh and bypass any conflicts due to tweaking OS for unsupported Fujitsu. So far it is running great and really happy with purchase. Someone reviewed it and commented that the slider for the paper holders moved like butter, and they were right. It is easy to load scanner with paper, then move the guides tight on the paper with just one hand. will follow up with any issues I encounter or cool features I discover along the way. If you don't see an update, then the Scanner is perfect and working so well you forget about it as it becomes seamless to your work process. Update 12/26/16 Scanning crazy amounts of paperwork, mixing in receipts, and weird shaped papers. So far not a single miss-feed, double feed, or issues with not scanning anything I through at. WHAT I REALLY LIKE is the Document Capture Pro software. It is a great tool for feeding scanned documents to different software systems. I love OneNote, Capture Pro makes it easy to scan directly into the software and organizing it later. Still a 5 Star product. Update 3/18/17 Still Rock solid, even after 'I' screwed up a Bios update. I need to redo the update, but the Scanner is still working, even with my goof. Still really happy with unit. Keep lid closed when not using, and hope this will keep it in good condition for the long haul. Update 5/1/17 Still rock solid, but the updated version of Document Scanner Pro is not great. I uninstalled and reinstalled vs. 1.17.12 as I liked how it looked better than the new version. Epson hasn't released any update on what has changed and all of their online 'help' guides are still showing 1.17.12, and not the updated version 2.00.01. Easy change and calling tech support with questions was high quality on top of getting back to preferred software. still 5 stars. Update 9/19/2018 - Work Horse, no issues. Only 'thing' is that the software wants to update to a completely new version. Good, but no instructions or guides on how to use the new version of the software. I uninstalled new and went back to the old version. Still, not an issue and they might have better training on the new version of the software that does more. Still like old software so decline monthly prompting to update.

Some people call me crazy, but I keep tons of old documents, bills, receipts, and other paper junk, 99.9% of which I will probably never need to go back to. But if I only knew, which pages constitute that 0.01% I will eventually need... Anyway, came the time, when I decided to digitize my archives. This little machine ate literally piles and piles of old papers in all possible conditions ranging from nice and smooth to badly wrinkled, torn and otherwise mutilated. There is hardly anything it won't swallow. Sometimes, if the page was badly torn, I'd patch it up with a bit of scotch tape, but most it ate right up. Yes, it jams every now and then (not surprised, given the quality of material I fed through it, I'm actually impressed on how rarely it happens), but unjamming it is a very easy task, and even if whatever got jammed wrinkled - it will scan in on the second pass. The software is *almost* flexible enough for every task. At the time I purchased the scanner (April 2018) it was much less flexible, but improved greatly with a recent update. It is now allowing for lots more options in automatic file naming, which was one of my major complaints. One annoying thing - when launching "document capture pro" it will sometime take a long time to connect to the scanner. Sort of a workaround is to close and re-open it, if it waits too long. Usually connects right away on the second go. So far I scanned over 14000 sheets, some of them full two sided pages, some were as small as a cash register receipts. It takes pages in almost any size. Won't take an old cash register receipt that is 1.5 inch wide, but will take the 1.7+ inch ones easily. Fortunately almost nobody uses these old narrow receipts these days. The nice thing is that it takes pages of any length (took a bit to figure it out, because you need to set the page size to "auto (long paper)", which is only available under advanced options, when using Document Capture Pro). But when set up right - it will gladly accept those big box electronics store receipts, where they print all their terms, conditions, warranties, and whatnot making them 4-5 feet long. It will scan at reduced speed, when long paper option is on though, so don't abuse it if you don't need it. All in all, I'm very happy with this device. Yes, there are a few minor glitches here and there (mostly in software, actually, so I'm hoping for eventual improvements), but there isn't a thing that is made perfect. So giving it a 5 star rating for a very high pro/con ratio.

I very much wanted the Fujitsu fi-7130 or fi-7160, but the cost was prohibitive. In stepped Epson with an affordable (1/5th'ish the cost of a new scanner) solution. I will one day have my Office Space moment with my Samsung all-in-one #@$^ing pos printer, but for now my Epson DS-530 has stayed the execution; a job I thought only Fujitsu could do. Most folks may not consider this a fair price at over $300, but after using that flippin' Samsung for 2 years I willingly coughed up the clams. Set up was a breeze, even though I did Exactly what the instructions told me Not to do (plugged it in to the USB before installing the Epson drivers). I uninstalled the Windows driver and started over, this time following instructions, and voila! Fujitsu still has the upper hand in software with their ScandAll Pro program; however, again, price left an incredibly large gap. I've been able to scan credit cards, checks, driver's licenses, duplex, images, etc . . . with no issues. The image stitching feature is highly useful for checks and cards - it puts the front and back images together into one document or image, and allows the user to determine side-by-side or top and bottom. Scan profiles can be set up so users don't have to constantly change settings. Users will be able to email directly from the scanner, though the document cannot be altered, nor can the email body be modified, after scanning. A pre-written body and subject can be set up in the profile, though, to skip repetitive typing. The email address book will pull from Outlook, I think. I may have had to export my contacts from Outlook and import them to Document Capture Pro. Either way, it was easy. Scan profiles can be set up to save the scans into certain folders and with names of the user's (or admin's) choosing. Date, date and time, and iterative numbers up to 5 digits in length can be appended to the file name. There's a barcode character option as well as OCR recognition for those who have scans with information in the same place every time. Mine are all over the place so I don't get to play with those options. Receipts and other thin paper is simple to scan. There's a button on the scanner that gets pushed that slows the scan speed down. Push it again to speed things up. Speed is great - I get nice looking scans at 300 dpi and it's quick. I use Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard and thus far it integrates nicely with the DS-530. All-in-all I'm happy with it and I am only more critical of the software because I used to use ScandAll Pro, which is a quite well-written bit of software which has more features than the average user will ever need. I'm no power user, but I do dig tweaking settings and making life easier with features like skip blank pages, auto skew, hole punch fill in, edge fill in, etc . . . and ScandAll Pro is like a playground to me. 20180813: Update: I'm still pleased with this scanner. I have the occasional hiccup where I have to turn it off then back on. I haven't had to restart my computer to fix issues, only the machine, so that's a big bonus. It's truckin' right along. For half the price I have a scanner that works just as well as the Fujitsu scanner I wanted. The only regret I have is not purchasing the wi-fi model to free up a USB port. Again, it's a minor issue for our home office as we can easily hop onto each others' computers. I did get to experiment with the OCR recognition and have to admit it needs some help. I have a document that has a job number typed in the same area each time and none of the OCR settings are able to read it correctly. The field is alpha numeric and I think that trips up the OCR. It works a little bit better on a different document that has only numbers, but definitely not well enough to call it reliable. Perhaps in a future update. Fortunately it is possible to review and retype the results and save that as the file name. The process is a bit clunky, but it gets the job done. I also found the auto-rotate feature and that's been a time saver. I also have a one-button default scan profile that works for the majority of my scans; however, if I go to the taskbar and right-click on the scanner I can use one of my other scan profiles. That is to say - using other scan options is quite easy and convenient. All-in-all, after ~4 months use, I'm satisfied with my purchase, and I would make the same choice if I had a "do-over."

Oh my God; I did not realize that I've been torturing myself for the past few years attempting to go paperless with the scanning portion of my Brother MFC-L8850CDW combo printer/scanner. The Brother can scan, even duplex scan, and hey even legal size scan. It can also jam constantly, or error constantly, and just make you angry at life if you attempt to use it for longer than an hour. I finally had enough of it and figured there has to be something better. I looked at a number of options from various big names, excluding Brother because I'm so angry at their junk products. I almost went with Raven's product because it seemed very interesting with its connectivity options, as those would be useful to me on occasion. However, the downside to the Raven scanner is you have to go with the Pro model to get direct connectivity TWAIN driver support, and even though it has network connectivity, it can't function as a network scanner outside of being able to deposit scans into an SMB share (windows file server / NAS device). The one and only nice thing about my Brother printer is that my Mac can use it for scans across the network. In any case, since this was my first foray into dedicated document scanning, I decided I wasn't ready to let the price approach the $1k mark, and most of the network-capable scanners rapidly approach that price point. So, that moved my research to USB-attached models from Epson, Fujitsu, etc. This one seemed to be the highest rated from the standpoint of price / performance, lack of jamming, relatively good speed, reliable drivers (and drivers available for MacOS Catalina, the current release at the time of this review). I decided to give it a shot and have nothing but good things to say. I installed the Epson drivers before connecting, but intentionally did not install the Epson scanning utilities as I use a third party program called PDFScanner, which can deskew (straighten), duplex, virtual duplex, OCR and then save as PDF. Everything "just worked" and this thing simply blasts through piles of documents. I realize there are faster scanners out there, but coming from a garbage Brother MFC printer/scanner, this device, even at 300dpi + color is probably ten times the speed, literally. So if that's your reference point, you're going to be in complete awe when this thing gets going. I just completed four hours of scanning and emptied an entire file cabinet drawer. It would have been a multi-day operation trying to get through that much paper with the Brother. Anyway, happy customer.

I gotta give this very high marks for price/performance. I've used different brand scanners over the years, from flatbed, to handheld to desktop. This was easy to set up. Although I had to download the set of programs, that went well. The actual capture software is fairly easy to use, but not in the league of Fujitsu. I would say quite serviceable once you get used to it. The actual scanning process is a sight to behold speedwise. Claims it can scan 35 pages per minute - but hold on; it can actually double that as scanning double sidded doesn't slow down the unit. Wow! This is up there with scanners that cost a lot more. I bought the non wifi version as I only need this attached to my computer and not in an office environment. Besides from what I read the wireless module can be buggy and is definitely slower. I may just have to order another one for the heck of it.

The scanner seemed pretty good when I first installed it about a week ago but now every time I turn it on I get the message "The scanner is in use or unavailable. Please wait". To get it to work I have to uninstall and reinstall the scanner software. Very annoying and time consuming. Epson web site offers no help. Waiting for a response to my email request for support. If I don't get a satisfactory fix I will be returning the unit. I am using a recent Windows 10 PC with plenty of memory, etc.

I prefer to keep digital copies of most documents and recycle the paper. This unit replaced a Neat scanner that had seen better days and had been dropped from support (they got out of hardware years ago). This Epson scanner is very fast and produces nice PDFs and other supported formats. My only complaint is that the software is a bit limited and when scanning multiple pages, it breaks it into multiple documents - every 3 or 4 pages to its own PDF whereas the Neat software would keep it in the same PDF. Thus It makes an extra step for me to merge the PDFs when I scan multiple page documents. You also need to set up the kind of 'jobs' you want to handle rather than set what you want "on the fly" - which was the default for Neat. I have not contacted Tech Support and do not know what they are asking about "Warmth". I shut off power to the unit when not in use.

Easy to upgrade software and easy to use !

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漫画自炊メインでこれまで使用していたscansnap ix500のスキャン枚数が限界枚数を超えたのでこちらに買い替えました。 基本的な感想としては、シェアNo.1のix500の強みと弱みがきちんと研究されていて、後追いの良さを発揮していると感じました。 以下、ix500との比較をふまえたレビューです。PCはMacです。 ◆良いところ ①誰でも出来る画像調整！ 私はこの機能が欲しくてDS530にしました。ix500ではソフトを使用しなければ出来なかった画像調整ですが、DS530ではスキャン時に簡単に行うことが出来ます。 私の場合、コントラストを15まで強めることで、日ヤケや、コミックスの紙質によるざらざら感などを白く飛ばしてスキャンしています。 特に使いやすい機能として、画質調整のためのお試しスキャン機能があります。「スキャン」ボタンとは別の「プレビュー」ボタンをクリックすると、1枚だけスキャンしたお試し画像に対して、リアルタイムで明るさ・コントラスト・ガンマなどを調整できます。 自動サイズ検知も問題なく使用出来ています。他のレビューで「スキャン画像のフチが白くなる」というコメントも見かけましたが、「切り出し位置設定」を調整することで回避可能と思われます (-1.0〜-2.0mm程度?) 。 ②引き出しタイプのトレイ！ ix500は折り畳まれたトレイをパタパタと開くタイプでさらに端にストッパーもなかったため、特に文庫本がバラバラと落ちたり、順番が変わってしまったりということがありました。 DS530は引き出しタイプのトレイなので、用紙のサイズに合わせてトレイを引き出すことが出来ます。さらにストッパーも直角に立てることが出来、上記の順番入れ替わりが今のところありません。 排出口が若干高めに設定されていることも、入れ替わりの抑制には都合が良いのかと思います。 ③清掃がしやすい！ 装置のフタを開けると驚くほどix500と似た仕組みになっています。そのためscansnapユーザーは以前と全く同じ手順で清掃を行うことが出来ます。一つ違いがある点として、送りローラーの蓋を完全に取り外せることが挙げられます。そのためローラーの収まっている部分の清掃もやりやすくなっています。 ④安い！ scansnap最新型ix1500よりも1万円程度安いようです。ix1500の縦スジ軽減機能も気になりますが、どのみち原稿セットのたびにメガネ拭きでガラス面を拭くのでまぁいいかなと諦めました。 (スキャン速度は、実はグレースケール300dpiの場合、ix1500よりもDS530の方が速かったりもします。) 浮いた1万円で裁断機を買うことも出来ます。私は一度にコミックス一冊まるまるカット出来る裁断機を使っていましたが、切れ味が悪くなってきたため、今回40枚を一度に裁断出来るDC-210Nを1万円弱で同時購入しました。こちらもなかなか使い勝手が良くて気に入っています。 ix1500を購入するのと同価格で裁断機も揃えることが出来るのは魅力的かと思います。 ◆ix500とは違うところ ①音がちょっとだけうるさい！ ix500が非常に静かなのもありますが、比べるとローラーの回転音は大きいです。私もそうですが、夜中に家族が寝静まってからシコシコ自炊するタイプの方は少し気をつかうかもしれません。今のところトラブルになってはいませんが。 ②ユーザーが少ない！ やはりscansnapに比べるとユーザーが少ないため、おすすめ設定などの情報を拾いづらいというのは間違いなくあります...。今後どんどんEPSON自炊ユーザーが増えていって欲しいと思います！ まとめ 以上長文になりましたが、何一つ不自由なく自炊生活を楽しめるので、めちゃくちゃ買って良かったと思っています！オススメです！ 2019.11.25追記↓ scansnapだと問題なかったのに、DS530だとちょっと困る。ってあたりの解決法について。 【カラー取り込みのモアレ対策】 DS530はscansnapに比べ、カラー取り込みのモアレ（縞模様）が目立つようです。その対策として今やっていること。 ▪️方法1. 拡張設定の「モアレ除去」にチェック モアレ除去を使用するとスムージングフィルタのような処理が働くらしく、それによってモアレがほぼ無くなります。ただし、スムージングによって「ボヤけ」が出てくるので、通常300dpiで取り込んでるなら400dpiか600dpiにあげる必要があります。 ▪️方法2. 600dpiで取り込んだものを別ソフトで300-400dpi程度にサイズダウン 上記の方法1だと、例え600dpiにしてもいくらかボヤけは残るし、サイズ(MB)も大きいためタブレットでの読み込みが重いという欠点があります。これを回避するために、一度600dpiで通常に(モアレ除去無しで)スキャンしたものを、別ソフトで300-400dpi程度に落とします。これでモアレは無くなり、サイズも軽くなります。 【とじ位置の設定方法】 「とじ位置」設定が分かりづらいため、原稿横向きスキャンが出来なかったのですが、最近やっと気付いたので紹介。 Epson Scan2で[基本設定]→[読み取り面](両面or片面のとこ)→プルダウン1番下の[設定]で、とじ位置を[左]→[上]に変えることが出来ます。 これによって、例えば600dpiスキャンの場合でも、原稿横向きセットでスキャン時間を短縮出来るので便利です。

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Mac OS 13.2 Venturaで使用できるという事で購入しましたが、 スキャン中に必ずエラーが出て10枚ほどで終了します。 ケーブルを買い直しても同じです。ゴミになりました。

以前 CANON DR-2510を使用していましたがスキャン流れ方向のノイズがひどくなり、DS-530を購入しました。 そのレビューを行いたいと思います。 なお、使用目的の主は漫画、写真集等の自炊用のスキャナとしての使用です。 購入２日目、1000枚ほど取り込みしたうえでの感想です。 〇スキャンソフトウェア EPSON Document Capture Pro ですが、目的がはっきり決まっていれば可もなく不可もなくです。 ・気になる点）保存形式をJEPGにした場合でもスキャンのジョブが終わらないと対象フォルダに画像ファイルが吐き出されません。またスキャン途中での読み取り画像の確認ができないので、大量枚数をスキャンした場合にノイズが途中から入ったりすると、確認後やりなおす必要があります。 ・JEPGで保存する場合フィル名は日付、PC名、時刻等+連番という形になります。２回に分けてスキャンした場合など、前回50ページまでスキャン・付番されたが、次のスキャンで51番から付番はされません。（Canonでは通番で振られました） ・ドライバの設定項目が詳細にあり、同一条件で複数のジョブ（用紙のサイズ違い、カラー/モノクロ）を作成しようとしたとき、まごつきました。用紙サイズ / 解像度 / ドロップアウトカラー・ガンマ 等の設定をそれぞれ保存でき、かつ組み合わせて一つのスキャン設定ができるようになればうれしいです。現在はすべてをまとめてのお気に入り設定となり、一度作ったものを修正することはできず、再度設定画面から作っていく必要があります。（ひな形の設定を作っておき、それを複製する方法で一貫性を持たせられると思います） 〇ドライバー ・スキャンの条件を吐き出しできます。PCのバックアップや、障害時の復元に使用できると思います。 ・DR-2510の場合、400DPIでもモノクロは限界速度でスキャンしていましたが、DS-530では300DPI以上では速度が遅くなります。 ・規定でのスキャンの色合いが「見栄えの良い」色見になるようです。ガンマ、コントラストは好みで控えめにしたほうが良いと思います（スキャン一発でPDFにするにはよいですが、素材として加工するには、色見が加工されすぎていると思います）。 ・カラーの色見が比較的きれいな階調で表現される。人肌などの写真の場合300DPI程度だと粒子感はありますが、600dpiで取り込み、その後イメージソフト等で300dpiに変換した場合、比較的きれいに表現できます。 〇機械本体 ・スキャン開始まで一呼吸待たされますが、その後のスキャンは解像度等に合わせ性能を発揮します。（200～300dpiなら限界性能速度でスキャンします、400dpi以上だと遅めの速度になります） 良い点） ・紙送り、重送防止のローラーが非常に優秀です。写真集などの紙を取り込んだ場合、CANONでは紙の表面のコート剤（？）に影響され、紙送りが滑ることがままあり、単ページ送りでスキャンをしていました。DS-530では同様の原稿でもずれなく用紙が送れかつ、重送もありません（まだ500枚程度での使用感です）。 ・本体の給紙トレイ、および原稿ガイドの作りがしっかりとしています（特に原稿ガイドは仕組みはわかりませんが、一度幅を決めるとその位置に軽く固定されるようです、スキャン途中でバラけるようなことはありません） ・本体正面の「低速モードボタン」について、カラー原稿を丁寧に取り込みたい・薄手の原稿など...使いでのあるボタンです。 ・排紙トレイの引き出しもサイズに合わせ十分に機能します（購入当初はプラスチック特有の軋みがありますので、シリコンスプレーなどを微量吹きかけると使いやすくなります。） ・ガラス面のメンテナンスもしやすいと思います。 現在までADF搭載タイプのスキャナはCANON DRシリーズ、そして今回のEPSON DSしか使用していませんが.... Canon DR-2510C 優位：ユーティリティソフト・ドライバがシンプルで分かりやすい。 スキャン途中の状況が見える（ノイズがのった場合、その場でストップできる 不利：原稿によって原稿送りが滑る場面がある。 Epson 優位：ユーティリティソフト・ドライバについて細かいところまで設定できる。 カラーの画質が比較的良い（高解像度の場合）。 原稿送り、重送防止の確実性が高い。 不利：スキャン途中の状況が見えない（ノイズが乗ってしまった場合、最後にしかわからない）。