Epson GT-1500
Customisable Push Buttons
When Epson developed the GT-1500, one of the key design goals was to create a scanner that would fit into virtually any document management workflow. One result of this is the ability to customise actions that occur when the scanner's four action buttons - Start, Copy, Scan to Email and Scan to PDF - are pressed.
Using the bundled Epson Event Manager software, each of the four buttons can have one of either the four pre-defined job settings or the ten user-defined custom settings assigned to it. Custom job settings are created using a straightforward on-screen panel that lets the user define:
- Scan settings: Define the type of scan, such as text/line art, colour document, resolution etc, as well as the document's physical dimensions.
- Save settings: Define the default folder to which the scan file is to be saved, as well as the format, such as such as TIFF and PDF. This setting also incorporates compression type and image size.
- Launch settings: A simple operation that allows users to have a specified program, such as Adobe Acrobat or any other installed programmed automatically launched.
Once each of the settings have been defined, the job can be saved to one of the ten custom job events, and can be assigned to any of the scanner's four buttons.