Customer Rating:  
Summary: ABout Time
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Red and Green lines on .jpg
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Rather trustworthy, though slow
Comment: 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.
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