Customer Reviews

Automatic Document Feeder (B12B813391), for Epson Perfection 4490/V500 Scanners

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A robust bit of equipment, it seldom jams or sucks up more than one page at a time. It's hard to judge the exact speed (or lack thereof), but it seems to process five to ten pages per minute, depending on resolution. We were having some streaky image problems (see below) and Epson tech support advised us that the ADF was chiefly meant for document scanning, not image scanning. But once our problem was resolved, it seemed to do a good job with images.

Nice bits: The tray can be adjusted to fit smaller pieces of paper, which decreases the risk of jamming. When it does jam, it's very easy to open up and fix.

Not-so-nice bits: You do have to keep an eye on it, since it's not totally immune to making a mistake. If you're scanning glossy documents (like photos), you have to continually clean the scan area, because it gets very streaky from dust. (I'm not sure why glossy documents cause this problem more than non-glossy ... but they do.) Also, it's rather loud.

Overall, we've been very pleased with it. For the price it does very fine work.

I purchased this ADF to go on my Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner. I was looking for a low cost add-on that would allow me to automate scanning of many printed photos. Installation was a snap. Photos load and feed rather effortlessly. However, the Epson Scan software (comes with the scanner, not the feeder) does not allow you to run a batch on "full auto". What does that mean? You must prescan the image, marquee out the desired part of the image, adjust your settings and initiate the scan. You must do this for each photo. It will retain your settings from scan to scan. But will not batch the whole pile. Every image requires a prescan and scan.

I did not try to batch scan a stack of documents. I presume that it will do that. If you are a consumer and need an ADF that will automatically feed paper documents (and presumably scan each one) without spending a fortune, it will work for you. It is an Automatic Document (only) Feeder.

I can't believe I went as long as I did without a document feeder on my scanner. When I bought this new scanner I almost balked at the cost of the document feeder.

The scanner is simply outstanding, and had I been reviewing it alone I'd have to give it five stars. If I were reviewing the document feeder strictly based on time and labor savings, five stars again. However, the document feeder has the regularly recurring habit of feeding sheets at a slight but increasing angle until, eventually, it jams. Yes, you can work around it, but it's a colossal pain when it happens.

If you want perfectly aligned, trouble-free scans, spend even more money and get a scanner with built-in document feeder. If you can life with the occasional crooked page and occasional jam, this combination is tough to beat.

One star off for the light-weight feeder workmanship; otherwise, I love this scanner and document feeder.

While no manufacturer advertises photo scanning as a feature, this ADF will handle the thicker stock of printed photographs. The EPSON scan util will auto batch a stack of 30 prints. You can't effectively scan at more than 400 dpi because the scan will pause because it can't offload the data quickly enough and you'll get a thin line where the feeder starts and stops. 20seconds per scan approx at 3x5.

Epson scanner automatic document feeder ( B12B813391 )

I had problems in the beginning. Some I charge to Epson, but I charge the others to me.

At the present, I have worked out most problems and it is very useful and I scanned over 1,000 4x6 photos over the week end. I do
think I would bye the scanner and ADF as one unit next time. But overall, I love the job it is doing for me as I have over 5,000
4x6 photos to go

I would add that Amazon has been very helpful with my problems, directing me to the proper help.

Wendell

I kept getting Red and Green lines on my scanned images. I went to Help online and there was a section on how to clean the scan "glass" to remove dust and such. Only problem is the path the the picture feeds through to scan is a clear plastic sheet and it already had scratched on it. Can't clean those.

Now if you didn't have the lines: The APF is GREAT and the few I did try running through it went through straight, no jams. Not too noisy and the software is pretty easy to work also.

Given the cost of most ADFs I do have to confess that I wasn't expecting much. It turns out that this is quite a solid functioning machine. The feeding is fantastic. I have yet to experience an error, jam, or large misalignment. The noise level is far below what I would expect; it's not quiet by any means but I do not find the noise distracting if I am working in the same room. The one thing that I don't like is that the general alignment of the scan head and the feeder are off horizontally just a hair so there is a tiny black stripe on one side of the scan.

I bought this to scan in the bazillion photos I have and I may as well have bought a cheap photo scanner. The reason I didnt was so I could do a bunch at once and leave it rather than feed them individually. Well I am pretty much having to feed them individually b/c they keep jamming. Just got it, sending it back!!

This product is fine, though it jams pretty easily. I was hoping for something that could work without supervision, but this takes some watching if you're scanning anything other than regular paper.

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the page limitation on .pdf scans. EPSON CERTAINLY DID NOT !Shame on Epson! Not a single review anywhere mentioned this shortcoming. I purchased the ADF so that I could scan my Title Search documents as .pdf files, only to find that the Epson driver limits the scans to 100 pages and Epson support says that there is no "workaround". Thanks a lot, Epson. Thanks a lot Adobe. Seems to me that this is an unfair business practice and takes advantage of the consumer. So, now they want me to buy a $200 software package. Instead, I will save the files as multi-tiff files and convert them to .pdf using another program.The scanner is a fine piece of equipment, but the integrity of Epson is questionable.