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Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner

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The Bottom Line

The Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner is a massive scanner built for fast, high-volume scanning of documents at up to tabloid width.
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Pros & Cons

    • Heavy-duty scanning at up to tabloid width.
    • Tabloid-sized flatbed.
    • Very good OCR accuracy.
    • 200-sheet ADF.
    • Very large for a scanner.
    • A bit slower than its rated speeds for simplex and duplex scanning.
    • Even slower at scanning to searchable PDF.
    • Limited software selection.

Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner Specs

Automatic Document Feeder
Ethernet Interface
Flatbed
Maximum Optical Resolution 600 pixels
Maximum Scan Area Tabloid
Mechanical Resolution 600
All Specs

Offices with heavy-duty scanning demands would do well to consider the Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner ($2,899 direct). This color duplex (two-sided) scanner can quickly scan large jobs, including tabloid size (and even longer banners), and has a large flatbed for scanning more delicate materials. Although it didn't quite match its rated speeds, it should be fast enough for most offices needing high-volume scanning, and it can scan wider documents than standard scanners.

The DS-60000 is built for high-volume scanning, with a daily duty cycle of up to 5,000 pages, and is rated at 40 pages per minute (ppm) for simplex (one-sided) scanning and 80 images per minute (ipm) for duplex (two-sided) scanning, where each side of a page counts as one image.

The 59-pound DS-60000 has a 25.2-by-18.5-inch footprint, so you'll want to set it up on a table or bench of its own. On top is a 200-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) that fits paper up to tabloid and A3 (11.77-inch) width—it can actually scan banners at up to 11.7 by 100 inches. The ADF and output tray lift to reveal the tabloid-sized (11-by-17-inch) flatbed which can be used to scan books, odd-sized materials, and delicate documents.

In the same line, the Epson WorkForce DS-70000 ($3,999 direct) is rated at a blazing 70 ppm for simplex and 140 ppm for duplex scanning, and has an even more prodigious daily duty cycle (8,000 pages). The Epson WorkForce DS-50000 ($1,495 direct) can also scan at up to tabloid size, but with a flatbed as it lacks an ADF.

The DS-60000 was easy enough to set up. One quirk is that you have to put a couple of small rollers in place, but the process is well explained and proved simple enough.

Software

Software is limited to Epson's scan utility and its Image Capture Plus (which can scan to the cloud), and ABBYY FineReader Sprint for OCR. IT departments looking to buy a scanner of this caliber will likely have document management software, which is not included, already.

Testing

I tested the DS-60000 using Epson's scanning utility, using our standard 25-page letter-size test documents for simplex and duplex scanning. In addition, I did some ad-hoc scanning of tabloid-sized documents, both using the ADF and the flatbed. Its ability to scan large-format documents was impressive enough.

In scanning our letter-sized test document to image PDF at 200 ppi, the DS-60000 averaged 31 ppm and 62 ppm for simplex and duplex scanning, respectively. That's 78% of its rated scan speeds for the two modes, a little off although within an acceptable range.

I scanned our test document to searchable PDF at 200 ppi, and it turned in a lackluster average time of 2 minutes 59 seconds. At 300 ppi, the recommended resolution for searchable PDF, it slowed a little more, to an average of 3:22.

OCR

It did very well in our OCR testing using ABBYY FineReader Sprint at 300 ppi grayscale, reading our Times New Roman test document down to 6 points and our Arial test document down to 5 points without error.

The only other large-format scanner we've reviewed is the Plustek OpticPro A320, capable of scanning to super-tabloid size (12 by 17 inches). Although we reviewed it in 2008, it's still widely available. However, it is flatbed only and lacks an ADF, so although it can scan large documents at high resolutions, it wasn't built for speed.

The Epson WorkForce DS-60000 is a formidable scanner built for high scanning volume and speed, and capable of automatically scanning tabloid-sized documents with its 200-sheet ADF. Although it didn't quite live up to its rated scan speeds, and was a bit sluggish in scanning to searchable PDF, it's an impressive machine suitable for meeting the demands of offices with prodigious scanning needs, including high-volume scanning.

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Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner - Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner

Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner Review

3.5 Good

The Epson WorkForce DS-60000 Document Scanner is a massive scanner built for fast, high-volume scanning of documents at up to tabloid width.

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About Our Expert

Tony Hoffman

Tony Hoffman

Senior Writer, Hardware

Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times printers, scanners, projectors, storage, and monitors. I currently focus my efforts on 3D printers, pro and productivity displays, and drives and SSDs of all sorts.

Over the years, I have reviewed smart telescopes, iPad and iPhone science apps, plus the occasional camera, laptop, keyboard, and mouse. I've also written a host of articles about astronomy, space science, travel photography, and astrophotography for PCMag and its past and present sibling publications (among them, Mashable and ExtremeTech), as well as for the former PCMag Digital Edition.

The Technology I Use

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 laptop that's my work daily driver, an HP Pavilion Aero 13 as my primary personal laptop, and an Asus ProArt P16 for detailed photo work. (I also have an older Dell XPS 13, which now stays at home full-time.) For storage testing, I rely on our three custom-built Windows testbeds in PC Labs, as well as a 2024 MacBook Pro.

My primary home monitor is a BenQ EX2780Q, a gaming monitor with a great sound system and excellent image quality. I use that panel for writing, watching videos, and working with photos. I also have an HP 27 Curved Display—one of the first general-purpose curved monitors—which I have paired with an Acer Aspire desktop computer. My multifunction printer is an Epson Expression Premium XP-7100 Small-in-One. I also own an Epson Perfection V39 flatbed scanner, which I use for photos and short documents, and a Canon Selphy CP1300 small-format photo printer for turning out snapshots.

My first cell phone, in 2006, was a Motorola Razr; since then, it’s been all iPhones—I currently have an iPhone 15 Pro. I use my iPhone a lot for casual photography, though I also use a Sony DSC-RX100 VII and a Canon G5 X Mark II for everyday shooting. For much of my travel photography and astrophotography, I use either a Sony A7r II or A7 III, paired with a variety of lenses ranging from a Sony 14mm f/1.8 prime to a Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS zoom lens. I also pair the A7r with a RedCat 51 for deep-sky star shooting. For astrophotography, I also use the Seestar S30 and S50 and the Unistellar Odyssey smart telescopes, which are essentially astronomical cameras controlled through one’s mobile device.

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