Epson DS-C330 Compact Desktop Document Scanner B11B272201
The Epson DS-C330 Compact Desktop Document Scanner B11B272201 delivers fast duplex scanning and versatile document handling in an exceptionally small desktop design.
Featuring scan speeds up to 30 ppm / 60 ipm, a 20-sheet Automatic Document Feeder, single-pass duplex scanning and a peak daily duty cycle of up to 5,000 pages, the DS-C330 provides impressive business scanning performance while conserving valuable workspace.
Its innovative vertical paper-feed system can save up to 60% of desk space, while a flexible straight-through scan path allows the DS-C330 to handle standard documents, receipts, business cards, plastic cards, passports with an optional carrier sheet, and extra-long documents up to 120 inches.
Epson DS-C330 Compact Desktop Document Scanner
The Epson DS-C330 is designed for businesses that need capable document scanning but have limited desktop space. Its unique vertical paper-feed system allows everyday documents to enter and exit the scanner without requiring large extended output trays. Despite its compact size, the DS-C330 scans both sides of a document simultaneously at speeds up to:
30 ppm — Pages Per Minute
60 ipm — Images Per Minute
A 20-sheet Automatic Document Feeder makes batch scanning simple, while advanced paper handling and intelligent imaging features help produce accurate digital files with minimal manual correction.
Key Features
- Fast Duplex Scanning: Scan at speeds up to 30 ppm / 60 ipm.
- Single-Pass Duplex: Captures both sides of a document simultaneously.
- 20-Sheet Automatic Document Feeder: Efficiently process batches of business documents.
- 5,000-Page Peak Daily Duty Cycle: Designed for dependable commercial use.
- Ultra-Compact Design: Vertical paper feeding saves up to 60% of desktop space.
- Flexible Scan Path: Switch between vertical and straight-through feeding depending on the original.
- 600 dpi Optical Resolution: Capture sharp text, graphics and images.
- Extra-Long Document Scanning: Scan documents up to 120 inches long.
- Passport Scanning: Scan passports using the optional passport carrier sheet.
- Plastic Card Scanning: Handles compatible identification and embossed cards.
- Business Card Scanning: Process multiple paper business cards through the vertical path.
- Intelligent Image Processing: Automatic corrections help produce clean, professional scans.
- Staple Protection: Helps identify feeding conditions that could indicate a stapled original.
- TWAIN and ISIS® Drivers: Integrates with a wide variety of business and document-management applications.
- OCR Capability: Create searchable PDFs and editable Office documents.
- USB Connectivity: Provides dependable direct connection to a computer.
- 3-Year Limited Warranty: Applies to qualifying current purchases under Epson’s updated warranty program.
Compact Vertical Design
One of the biggest advantages of the Epson DS-C330 is its extremely small footprint. In its vertical scanning position, the scanner measures approximately:
11.7″ W x 4.1″ D x 4.9″ H
Epson’s vertical-feed design saves up to 60% of desk space compared with larger conventional desktop scanners with their trays extended.
This makes the DS-C330 especially useful for:
- Reception desks
- Medical offices
- Bank teller stations
- Insurance offices
- Customer service counters
- Retail locations
- Hotel front desks
- Government offices
- Home offices
- Workstations with limited desk space
At approximately 4 pounds, the DS-C330 provides substantial scanning capability in an unusually small package.
Flexible Two-Path Document Handling
The DS-C330 uses two different paper paths to accommodate a wide range of originals.
Vertical Path
The vertical path is designed for everyday business documents and allows the scanner to maintain its compact footprint.
It is ideal for:
- Letter-size documents
- Legal-size documents
- Forms
- Contracts
- Invoices
- Statements
- Receipts
- Business cards
- Multi-page business records
Straight Path
The scanner can also be placed in a straight-path position for thicker, rigid or specialty originals.
The straight path is useful for:
- Plastic cards
- Embossed cards
- Thick paper
- Envelopes
- Carrier sheets
- Passports with the optional passport carrier sheet
- Fragile or irregular originals
This flexible design gives the DS-C330 capabilities normally associated with much larger scanners.
Passport Scanning
The DS-C330 can scan passports when used with the optional Passport Carrier Sheet B12B819651.
This is an important distinction from the DS-C490: the DS-C330 requires the passport carrier sheet when scanning passports.
Passport scanning capability can make the DS-C330 especially useful for:
- Hotels
- Healthcare facilities
- Financial institutions
- Government offices
- Travel-related businesses
- Human resources departments
- Customer registration environments
The carrier sheet helps protect the passport while allowing it to pass through the scanner’s straight paper path.
Extra-Long Document Scanning
The Epson DS-C330 can scan originals up to 120 inches long.
Maximum supported document length varies with resolution:
- Up to 120″ at 50 to 300 dpi
- Up to 30″ at 301 to 600 dpi
This feature is particularly useful for:
- Long receipts
- Continuous records
- Transaction reports
- Medical documents
- Financial records
- Specialized forms
- Other extended-length originals
Plastic Card Scanning
The DS-C330’s straight paper path allows it to scan compatible plastic cards and other thick originals.
Possible applications include:
- Identification cards
- Driver-license-size cards
- Insurance cards
- Membership cards
- Embossed cards
- Laminated cards
This makes the scanner particularly useful at reception desks and customer-facing workstations where both identification and traditional paper documents must be captured.
Business Card Scanning
The DS-C330 can also efficiently scan business cards.
Up to five paper business cards can be loaded through the vertical path at one time, depending on card thickness.
This feature can be useful for:
- Sales departments
- Administrative offices
- Customer-contact databases
- Trade-show follow-up
- Contact management
- Business-card archiving
Receipts and Small Documents
The DS-C330 is well suited for receipts and other small originals.
It handles documents as small as approximately 2″ x 2″, making it useful for scanning:
- Receipts
- Small invoices
- Business cards
- Identification documents
- Expense records
- Transaction slips
- Other small-format paperwork
Long receipts can extend up to 120 inches depending on scanning settings.
Carrier Sheet Scanning
Optional carrier sheets provide additional protection for originals that should not be fed directly through the scanner.
Carrier sheets can be useful for:
- Fragile documents
- Wrinkled originals
- Torn documents
- Irregularly shaped originals
- Valuable paperwork
- Easily scratched materials
- Folded originals
Only one carrier sheet should be fed through the straight paper path at a time.
Intelligent Image Processing
The Epson DS-C330 includes intelligent imaging technology designed to improve scanned files automatically.
Features include:
- Automatic cropping
- Blank page removal
- Background removal
- Dirt detection
- Paper skew correction
- Staple protection
- Text enhancement
- Image correction
- Automatic page-size detection
These features help reduce rescanning and manual image correction.
Staple Protection
The DS-C330 includes staple protection technology designed to help reduce the possibility of document damage.
If feeding conditions suggest that pages may still be stapled or otherwise improperly feeding, the scanner can respond before the original is pulled farther through the paper path.
This can be especially helpful in busy offices where large quantities of paperwork are processed throughout the day.
Powerful Document Management with OCR
Epson Document Capture software helps convert scanned paper into useful digital information.
Users can create:
- Searchable PDF documents
- Editable Microsoft Word files
- Editable Microsoft Excel files
- Editable Microsoft PowerPoint files
- Multi-page PDF files
- Customized scanning jobs
- Repeatable document workflows
OCR technology recognizes text in scanned documents so information can be searched, copied and edited.
Business Software Integration
The Epson DS-C330 includes TWAIN and ISIS® driver support, helping it integrate with many third-party document-management systems and business applications.
The scanner is well suited for industries such as:
- Healthcare
- Banking
- Finance
- Insurance
- Government
- Legal
- Accounting
- Hospitality
- Retail
- Education
- General business administration
Technical Specifications
- Scanner Type: Sheet-fed, one-pass duplex color scanner
- Manufacturer Part Number: B11B272201
- Scan Speed: Up to 30 ppm / 60 ipm
- Duplex Scanning: Single-pass duplex
- Optical Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi
- Output Resolution: 50 to 1200 dpi
- Image Sensor: CIS
- Light Source: RGB LED
- ADF Capacity: 20 sheets
- Peak Daily Duty Cycle: Up to 5,000 pages
- Minimum Document Size: Approximately 2″ x 2″
- Maximum Document Width: 8.5″
- Maximum Document Length: Up to 120″
- Long Document Resolution: Up to 300 dpi at 120″
- Paper Weight — Vertical Path: Up to approximately 209 g/m² depending on document size
- Paper Weight — Straight Path: Up to approximately 413 g/m²
- Color Input Depth: 30-bit
- Color Output Depth: 24-bit
- Grayscale Input Depth: 10-bit
- Grayscale Output Depth: 8-bit
- Interface: Hi-Speed USB
- TWAIN Support: Yes
- ISIS Support: Yes
- Wireless Connectivity: No
- Ethernet Connectivity: No
- Touchscreen: No
- ENERGY STAR® Qualified: Yes
- EPEAT: Silver
- RoHS Compliant: Yes
Important Connectivity Note
The DS-C330 is a USB-connected scanner.
It does not include built-in Wi-Fi or Ethernet networking.
For customers who like the compact design but require wireless capability, the DS-C480W is the wireless model in this family.
Dimensions and Weight
Vertical Path Position
- Width: 11.7″
- Depth: 4.1″
- Height: 4.9″
Straight Path Position
- Width: 11.7″
- Depth: 5.0″
- Height: 4.7″
Weight
- Approximately 4.0 lb.
The compact dimensions are a major advantage for users who need a full-featured business scanner in a limited workspace.
Power Consumption
- Operating: Approximately 10 W
- Ready Mode: Approximately 3.3 W
- Sleep Mode: Approximately 1 W
- Power Off: Approximately 0.1 W
Software & Compatibility
The Epson DS-C330 supports Epson business scanning and document-management software including:
- Epson Scan 2
- Epson Document Capture Pro for Windows
- Epson Document Capture for Mac
- Epson OCR components
- TWAIN-compatible applications
- ISIS-compatible applications
Optional Accessories & Maintenance Items
- Carrier Sheets, Pack of 5 — B12B819051
- Passport Carrier Sheet — B12B819651
- Roller Assembly Kit — B12B819731
- Cleaning Kit — B12B819291
The passport carrier sheet is specifically required when scanning passports with the DS-C330.
Warranty
Current qualifying Epson DS-C330 purchases include a 3-year limited warranty with Advance Exchange.
Products purchased on or after May 12, 2026 receive Epson’s updated 3-year limited warranty. The Advance Exchange program includes Next-Business-Day replacement shipping where available and subject to Epson warranty terms.
Why Choose the Epson DS-C330?
- Ultra-Compact Design: Saves up to 60% of desktop space.
- Fast Duplex Performance: Scan up to 30 ppm / 60 ipm.
- 20-Sheet ADF: Process batches without sacrificing a compact footprint.
- 5,000-Page Peak Daily Duty Cycle: Designed for commercial business use.
- Single-Pass Duplex: Capture both sides of a document simultaneously.
- Flexible Paper Path: Handle regular paperwork as well as thicker specialty originals.
- 120-Inch Long Document Support: Scan receipts and other extra-long originals.
- Passport Capability: Scan passports using the optional passport carrier sheet.
- Plastic Card Scanning: Capture ID cards and other compatible rigid cards.
- Business Card Scanning: Load multiple paper business cards at once.
- Intelligent Imaging: Automatic corrections help produce clean digital documents.
- Staple Protection: Helps protect documents and the scanner from feeding problems.
- Professional Integration: TWAIN and ISIS support work with many business applications.
- OCR Support: Convert paper documents into searchable PDFs and editable files.
- Lightweight Design: Weighs approximately 4 pounds.
- 3-Year Limited Warranty: Provides additional protection for qualifying current purchases.
The Epson DS-C330 Compact Desktop Document Scanner is an excellent solution for businesses that need dependable scanning performance in an extremely small workspace.
Its combination of 30 ppm / 60 ipm scanning, a 20-sheet ADF, 5,000-page peak daily duty cycle, 120-inch long-document capability, versatile media handling and compact vertical design makes it especially well suited for reception areas, customer-facing workstations and space-conscious offices.
Product Information
Brand: Epson
Model: DS-C330
Product Type: Compact Desktop Document Scanner
Manufacturer Part Number: B11B272201
Scan Speed: Up to 30 ppm / 60 ipm
ADF Capacity: 20 Sheets
Peak Daily Duty Cycle: 5,000 Pages
Optical Resolution: 600 dpi
Maximum Document Length: 120″
Connectivity: USB
Duplex Scanning: Yes
Passport Scanning: Yes — Optional Passport Carrier Sheet Required
TWAIN / ISIS Support: Yes
Approximate Weight: 4.0 lb.
Epson DS-C330 Compact Duplex Document Scanner 30ppm 20-Sheet ADF B11B272201























