
WorkForce
Color Document Scanner
DS-6500
®
Quality
•
 Achieve remarkable results — 
4 line CCD sensor (RGB and black) 
provides vivid color and crisp, 
sharp text; included book spine 
correction eliminates distortion 
when scanning bound materials 
•
 Engineered for business — up to 
3,000 - pages-per-day duty cycle
Productivity
•
 Get more done — one-pass, 
duplex scanning at speeds of up 
to 25 ppm/50 ipm 
•
 Work smarter and more efficiently 
1
— built-in 100-sheet Automatic 
Document Feeder, plus auto 
duplex scanning
•
 Powerful productivity software — 
includes EPSON 
Capture Pro (Windows 
ABBYY
®
 FineReader® Sprint OCR
®
 Scan, Document 
®
 only) and 
Versatility
•
 Capture large, 2-sided documents 
in a single scan — scans documents 
as small as 4" x 6" and as large as 
8.5" x 40" via the ADF or 8.5" x 11.7" 
via the flatbed
•
 Ultrasonic double-feed detector — 
automatically stops the scan job if 
two pages feed together
•
 Convenient, network scanning 
capabilities — use the optional 
network scan module and 
included Document Capture Pro 
software to scan to any PC on 
the local network 
•
 Use with Windows or Mac® — 
2
includes ISIS (Windows only) and 
TWAIN drivers and offers fast 
Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity for 
quick, easy setup
Time Savings
•
 Scan directly to popular cloud 
services 
Evernote
•
 Scan to searchable PDF — save 
2
 — scan to SharePoint®, 
®
, Google Docs and more
scanned documents as PDF, 
PDF-A or JPEG files, and more
•
 One-touch scanning — create up 
to 30 user-programmable jobs
Shown with Network Scan Module; sold separately.
Engineered for Business
 

Color Document Scanner
Product Name  Product Code  UPC 
WorkForce DS-6500  B11B205221  0 10343 88645 2 
Scanner 
Type  Flatbed color image scanner with ADF 
Photoelectric Device  1200 dpi 4 line color CCD line sensor (RGB & black) 
Document Size  Flatbed 8.5" x 11.7" 
Light Source ReadyScan 
Optical Resolution  Flatbed 1200 dpi 
Hardware Resolution  Flatbed 1200 x 1200 dpi with Micro Step Drive™ technology 
Pixel Depth  Color: 48 bits per pixel internal/external 
Scanning Speed 
1
  With ADF (letter) 
Scan Interface  Hi-Speed USB, optional network module (optional) 
System Requirements  Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista
Software Included  EPSON Scan, EPSON Event Manager (Mac only), 
Reliability  Main Unit: MCBF 100,000 cycles 
Daily Duty Cycle  3,000 pages per day 
Environmental Conditions  Temperature: 5 ºC to 35 ºC (operating) 
Power Requirements  Voltage: 100 – 240 VAC 
Size (W x D x H)  19.4" x 14.1" x 8.5" 
Weight  22.5 lb
ADF 8.5" x 40"
®
 LED
ADF 600 dpi
ADF 600 x 600 dpi with Micro Step Drive technology
Grayscale: 16 bits per pixel internal/external
200 dpi B/W  Up to 25 ppm/50 ipm 
200 dpi color  Up to 25 ppm/50 ipm 
300 dpi B/W  Up to 25 ppm/50 ipm 
300 dpi color  Up to 25 ppm/50 ipm 
600 dpi B/W  Up to 6 ppm/12 ipm 
600 dpi color  Up to 4 ppm/8 ipm
(RJ-45, 10BaseT/100BaseTX)
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition 
Mac OS® X 10.5.x, 10.6.x, 10.7.x, 10.8.x
ABBYY FineReader Sprint, Document Capture Pro with 
Scan to Cloud functionality (Windows only), ISIS driver 
(web download)
®
, Windows XP, 
ADF: MCBF 300,000 cycles
  -25 ºC to 60 ºC (storage) 
Humidity:  10% – 80% without condensation (operating) 
  10% – 85% without condensation (storage)
Frequency: 50 – 60 Hz 
Power consumption 
Operating: 45 W 
Ready: 12 W 
Sleep: 1.6 W
Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) 
Type  Sheet fed 1-pass duplex scanning 
Paper Supply  Face up load, face down eject 
Document Size  A4, Letter, Legal, B5, A5 
Paper Setting Capacity  100 pages (80 g/m 
Corresponding Paper Weight  Thickness 50 – 128 g/m
Max. Size 8.5" x 40" 
Min. Size 4" x 6"
2
)
2
Hinge  Free stop 
Product/Accessory Part Numbers 
EPSON Network Scan Module B12B808411 
Roller Assembly Kit B12B813481 
General 
Warranty  One-year limited warranty in the U.S. and Canada 
Support — The EPSON Connection 
What’s in the Box  WorkForce DS-6500 scanner, setup sheet, USB cable, software 
Eco Features 
  Recyclable product 
SM
  Pre-sales Support U.S. and Canada 800-463-7766 
Automated Technical Support 800-922-8911
CD-ROM, AC adapter and power cable
Epson America, Inc. is a SmartWay SM 
Transport Partner 
3 
4
1 Scan speed based on letter-size paper; 300 dpi from when page scan begins. 
2 With Document Capture Pro installed on the connected PC (Windows only). 
3 See our website for convenient and reasonable recycling options at www.epson.com/recycle 
4 SmartWay is an innovative partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that reduces greenhouse gases and other air pollutants and improves fuel efciency.
Epson America, Inc. 
3840 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806
EPSON, ReadyScan and WorkForce are registered trademarks, EPSON Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark and Better Products for a Better Future is a trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation. 
Micro Step Drive is a trademark and EPSON Connection is a service mark of Epson America, Inc. Mac, Mac OS and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. 
Windows, Windows Vista and the Windows logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. SmartWay is a service mark of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. All other product and 
brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks. Copyright 2012 Epson America, Inc. 8/12
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Epson Canada Limited 
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www.epson.com 
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