Epson Event Manager Utility

If you're the proud owner of an Epson scanner or multipurpose printer (which usually includes a scanner), you might sometimes feel that certain functions are not exactly at your fingertips and might use a little accessibility boost.
Epson Event Manager Utility is one of the applications that was designed to simplify the way you interact with your scanner by bringing some of its functions on your desktop and placing them conveniently in your system tray.

Runs from tray

As mentioned above, you shouldn't worry too much about this application's interference with other active processes since it minimizes itself to your system tray and lets you access it exclusively from there.
Even so, the menu is not an impressively large one, as you can notice by right-clicking the tray icon. It only displays a couple of options which enable you to either launch the event manager tool or simply hide the notification icon from your tray.

When to use it

As you probably already know, some scanners include a bunch of hardware buttons that can change the whole scanning game by letting you choose the output file format or send the file it creates via email by simply pressing them.
However, some Epson scanners might be a little stubborn when it comes to these hardware buttons, for instance, there might be a delay between pressing the button and executing the action it should or not triggering any effect at all. Here's where Epson Event Manager Utility comes into action.

Works only on Epson

It probably goes without saying that, as its name strongly suggests, this application can only be used with Epson scanners, since other brands are configured differently and don't support these features.
However, this app might not work with all the Epson scanners, since the program's documentation fails to mention which models are targeted by its capabilities. Long story short: if you're trying to use the "Scan to Email," "Scan as PDF" or "Scan to PC" buttons on your scanner and they don't work properly, installing and using this utility might get you out of that situation.

Handy Epson scanner assistant tool

All things considered, if you're struggling to unleash the full potential of your Epson scanner, Epson Event Manager Utility might be the right tool that can save you some effort.