Epson WorkForce DS-560 Review & Manual

Epson WorkForce DS-560 Review

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epson ds-560 driver
As a color document scanner, this Epson WorkForce DS-560 scanner is supposed to be one of Epson’s greatest series, since it is included into WorkForce family. It has been stated to be easy to use, to manage document efficiently, and to handle wireless works of scanning. It can be said as a new series, which makes no users that already have reviewed it.


For its specification, it is rather simple but powerful type, since it uses sheet fed, with one pass double sided color epson workforce ds-560 review. This feature allows users to do some double sided works automatically. For the photoelectric device, this scanner uses 1 line CMOS contact image sensor, with optical resolution around 600 dpi, output resolution from 75 dpi to 1200 dpi, and also uses effective pixels up to 5100 pixels x 21600 pixels. For the monochrome bit depth, it is similar to other scanners, just 1 bit. For grayscale bit depth, it is also just like the others’, it is 16 bits per pixel for internal and 8 bits per pixel for external. But, for the color bit depth itself, this scanner uses 48 bits per pixel internal and 24 bits per pixel external, which makes the scanning results look alive, colorful, and sharpened. For the light source itself, this scanner uses three colors Red Green Blue (RGB) LED, which means that the output will get more added colors eventually.

Epson Workforce DS-560 Manual

epson ds-560 review
epson ds-560 review

For its automatic document feeder feature, this scanner can hold 50 sheets for the capacity. For its very own speed, it depends on the resolution of the scanning and the colors. For monochrome, color, and gray on 200 dpi and 300 dpi of resolution, it takes 26 pages per minute, as fast as 52 pages per minute under ISO standard pattern. For monochrome and gray on 400 dpi and 600 dpi of resolution, it takes 18 pages per minute or as fast as 36 pages per minute under ISO standard pattern, meanwhile for color, it takes 5 pages per minute the same as 10 pages per minute under ISO standard pattern. The paper size is ranged between 2.1’’ x 2.9’’ as the minimum size, and 8.5’’ x 16.5’’ for Mac OS or 8.5’’ x 36’’ for Windows OS, as the maximum size.

epson ds-560 scanner
epson ds-560 scanner

To get to this scanner, users are possible to get through Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, High Speed USB 2.0, and optional network interface unit or so called as the ethernet and it is compatible up to Windows 8.1 and Mac OS X 10.9.x, shows that this scanner is kind of new comer. For the weight, 5.5 lb, and dimension, 11.7’’ x 6’’ x 6.1’’, it is small and light to be used whether as office scanner or home desktop scanner though.

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epson ds-560 user guide

Epson DS-560
Epson DS-560

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epson ds-560 software

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epson ds-560 twain

epson workforce ds-560 review
epson workforce ds-560 review

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