Epson 3800 User Manual

Epson Stylus

®

Pro 3800

The World’s Greatest Images are Printed on an Epson.

Epson Professional Imaging Division

Sales Reference Guide

9.27.2006

“Any sufficiently advanced technology

is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C. Clarke

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What Defines an Epson Stylus® Pro Branded Printer?

“To develop printing technology that

exceeds the expectations of professionals.”

“To allow any print to be sold.”

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Feature Set

Key Product Features

Epson UltraChrome K3™ Ink Technology

NEW

Professional Cut-Sheet Media Handling from 4” x 6” up to 17” x 22”

Main Top-Loading High-Capacity Paper Feeder

NEW

NEW

Second Top-Loading Manual Feeder – Optimized for Fine Art

Front-Loading Straight-through Manual Feeder up to 1.5mm Thick

BorderFree™ Cut-Sheet Printing from 4” x 6” up to 16” x 20”

NEW

Advanced MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head Technology

Ultra-Modern Image Processing Technology

NEW

Maximum Resolution of 2,880 x 1,440 dpi

Nine Individual 80mlA High-Capacity Ink Cartridges

NEW

Auto-Sharing Photo and Matte Black Ink Technology

NEW

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Pressurized Ink Cartridge Technology

NEW

High-Performance Print Engine Speeds

Epson PreciseColor™ Technology

Automatic Head Alignment and Cleaning Technologies

Standard USB 2.0 and 10/100 BaseT Ethernet

NEW

Epson PrintJob™ Information System

One-Year Epson Preferredsm Protection Plan

Standard Model

$1,295

Estimated Purchase Price

Professional Edition

$1,495

Estimated Purchase Price

Pro Edition Includes ColorBurst® RIP

Shipping

December 2006

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

Top-Loading High-Capacity Paper Feeder

4” x 6” up to 17” x 22”

(120 Sheet Input Tray)

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

Second Top-Loading Manual Sheet Feeder

Letter up to 17” x 22”

(Optimized for Fine Art Papers)

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

Professional Connectivity

Standard USB 2.0 and

10/100 BaseT Ethernet

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

Front Straight-Through Manual Sheet Feeder

Letter up to 16” x 20”

(Single Sheet Loading up to 1.5 mm Thick)

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

Closeable Front Media Output Tray

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Front-Loading High-Capacity Inks

Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

Nine Individual 80 ml Ink Tanks

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Backlight LCD Control Panel

Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

Latest Interface Design

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Front-Loading Ink Maintenance Tank

Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Walkthrough

Compact Design / Narrow Depth

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Size Comparison

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Size Comparison

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Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 Size Comparison

10”

Total Print Weight = 43.2 lbs.

15”

27”

Printer dimensions reduced by 30% and weight reduced by 51%

compared to the Epson Stylus® Pro 4800

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The World’s Most Precise Print Head Technology

Advanced MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head

2.5”

3.5”

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The World’s Most Precise Print Head Technology

Advanced MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head

AMC™ Variable-Droplet Piezo

(Active Meniscus Control)

Extremely Accurate Droplet Placement as small as 3.5 picoliters

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The World’s Most Precise Print Head Technology

Advanced MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head

One–Inch Wide Print Head

180 Nozzles x 8 Colors

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The World’s Most Precise Print Head Technology

Advanced MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head

8-Channel Print Head Technology

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The World’s Most Precise Print Head Technology

Advanced MicroPiezo® AMC™ Print Head

Auto-Sharing Photo & Matte Black Channel

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Auto-Sharing Black Ink Technology

This latest Epson technology allows the printer to share the same physical ink channel
between both Matte and Photo Black inks

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This allows Epson to reduce the overall printer cost by only having to use a single print head

The correct black ink mode is automatically used depending upon the driver selection

The process of switching between black ink modes is completely automatic and does
not require any user intervention

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Black Ink Conversion

Conversion Time

Ink Used

Photo Black to Matte Black

1:55 min:sec

~1.52 ml

Matte Black to Photo Black

2:55 min:sec

~4.5 ml

PK MK

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New Ultra-modern Screening Technology

All-new radical algorithm for determining dot placement and screening, resulting in
an extreme-level of photographic image quality

Produces extremely fine photographic prints even in bi-directional and lower
resolution print modes

Compensates for various ink densities between resolutions – allowing for a single
ICC profile to be used per media type

従来法

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35x Magnification

Source: Seiko Epson Engineering

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Performance Benchmarking

Epson Stylus® Pro 3800 – Most Popular Print Modes

Epson Driver Print Mode

4” x 6”

5” x 7”

8” x 10”

11” x 14”

16” x 20”

SuperFine - 1440 dpi HS

1:00

1:14

2:03

3:18

5:32

SuperFine - 1440 dpi

2:00

2:29

4:08

6:39

10:59

SuperPhoto - 2880 dpi HS

1:53

2:19

3:50

6:04

9:46

SuperPhoto - 2880 dpi

3:51

4:43

7:47

12:15

19:40

Based upon print engine speeds only | Total throughput times depend upon front-end driver/RIP, file size, printer resolution, ink coverage, networking, etc.

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17” 16”

20”

Images printed as shown below on Epson Premium Luster Photo Paper using a standard ICC color managed workflow via Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 (9.0.1)
Print speeds are shown in min:sec | HS = High-Speed Mode (Bi-Directional Print Mode)

5” x 7”4” x 6” 8” x 10” 11” x 14”

Photograph © 2006 Jay Maisel

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Epson Professional Media Line

Epson Stylus® Pro 3800

Epson Media Type

4” x 6”

5” x 7”

8” x 10”

Letter

11” x 14”

13” x 19”

17” x 22”

Optimized for Photo Black Ink

Premium Luster Photo Paper

S041405

S041407

S041828

Premium Glossy Photo Paper

S041727

S041464

S041465

S041667

S041466

S041289

S042092

Premium Semigloss Photo Paper

S041982

S041331

S041327

TBD

Proofing Paper Commercial Semimatte

S041744

Optimized for Matte Black Ink

Enhanced Matte Paper

S041341

S041339

S041908

Velvet Fine Art Paper

S041636

S041637

S042097

UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper – 325 gsm

S041896

S041897

Singleweight Matte Paper

S041909

S041907

Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper

S041062

S041069

S041171

PremierArt™ Water Resistant Canvas

TBD

Piezo Pro™ Matte Canvas

TBD

Optimized for Both Black Modes

Plain Paper

S041586

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Industry Leading 8-Color Pigment-Based Ink Technology

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Photo Black2Light Black

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Auto-Sharing

Matte Black

Lt Lt Black

Magenta5Light Magenta

Cyan

Light Cyan

Average Pigment Particle Size is ~ 0.1 um

for comparison, a human hair is ~ 10 um

Yellow

(um means micrometer)

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Industry Leading 8-Color Pigment-Based Ink Technology

Unique high-density pigments for an extremely wide color gamut

High-gloss Microcrystal Encapsulation™ Technology for reduced gloss differential

Superior scratch resistance from improved pigment and resin chemistry

Color is stable immediately after printing – no short-term color shifting

Depending upon media – produces a black density up to 2.3 with an L* value of 4.1

Amazing Black Density

Higher-Density Pigments

High-Gloss Resin Coating

Cross-Linking Chemistry

*Dmax and L* values are based upon 2,880 x 1,440 dpi printing on Epson Premium Luster Photo Paper

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Three-Level Black Ink Technology

Simultaneously uses Black, Light Black, and Light Light Black inks

Significantly improves the gray balance, while eliminating color casts

Impressive shadow-to-highlight detail for a perfect tonal range

Virtually eliminates the metamerism and bronzing of basic pigment chemistry

Enhances the ICC profiling process for ColorSync™ and ICM™ workflow's

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“What’s amazing is the amount of control down in

the shadow area as well up in the highlight area

and through the middle range...for total control.”

Chris Rainier

Photograph © 2006 Chris Rainier

Ancient Marks Exhibition

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Advanced Black and White Printing Technology

Unique driver technology taking full advantage of our three-level black system to
produce professional black and white prints from color or monochrome images

Proprietary Epson screening developed specifically for black and white printing

Virtually eliminates metamerism, bronzing, and gloss differential

Already produced some of the world’s greatest black and white prints

LK LLK LM LC Y

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Cool Neutral Warm

Photograph © 2006 Greg Gorman

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Advanced Black and White Printer Driver Dialog

Simulated Feedback

Epson Stylus Pro 3800

Precise Tone Control

LK LLK LM LC Y

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Quick Toning Presets

Complete Tonality Control

Apple Macintosh® OS X Driver Dialog Shown

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Two Auto-Sharing Black Ink Modes

Printer automatically switches between two different black ink modes in order to

optimize the black ink density for virtually any media type

Photo Black mode can produce professional results on any media type, but is

optimized for traditional photographic papers

Matte Black mode can produce even better results on specific matte-type media

such as Velvet Fine Art, Enhanced Matte, UltraSmooth Fine Art, and more

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PK MK

Matte Black Print on Matte Paper Photo Black Print on Matte Paper

Optimized black density

for any media type

Photograph © 2006 Greg Gorman

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Color Gamut Comparisons

Epson UltraChrome K3™ Color Gamut Comparison

CSE SWOP CMYK versus SP3800 PLPP 2880 PK

Epson UltraChrome K3

CSE SWOP

L* = 50

L* = 50

Profile Graphing Software

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Epson UltraChrome K3™ Color Gamut Comparison

GRACOL TR004 CMYK versus SP3800 PLPP 2880 PK

Epson UltraChrome K3

GRACOL TR004

L* = 50

L* = 50

Profile Graphing Software

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Epson UltraChrome K3™ Color Gamut Comparison

Silver Halide versus SP3800 PGPP 2880 PK

Kodak Ultra Endura

Epson UltraChrome K3

Fuji Crystal Archive

L* = 50

L* = 50

Profile Graphing Software

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Epson UltraChrome K3™ Color Gamut Comparison

Photograph © 2006 Joseph Holmes versus SP3800 PLPP250 2880 PK

Epson UltraChrome K3

L* = 50

L* = 50

Profile Graphing Software

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Print Permanence Ratings

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www.wilhelm-research.com

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Professional Print Permanence Ratings

Standard Display Conditions

Permanence ratings are based on accelerated testing of prints made on the Epson Stylus Pro 4800 on specialty media, displayed indoors, under glass or UV filter.

Epson Media Type

Color Rating

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Black and White Rating

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Premium Glossy Photo Paper (250)

85 Years

> 135 Years

Premium Luster Photo Paper – Roll or Sheet

71 Years

> 95 Years

Premium Semimatte Photo Paper (250)

67 Years

> 76 Years

UltraSmooth™ Fine Art Paper

108 Years

> 205 Years

Somerset Velvet for Epson

62 Years

> 90 Years

Somerset Velvet for Epson w/PremierArt™ Spray

166 Years

> 312 Years

Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper

61 Years

> 115 Years

Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper w/PremierArt™ Spray

82 Years

> 178 Years

Enhanced Matte Paper

76 Years

110 Years

PremierArt™ Water Resistant Canvas for Epson

75 Years

> 150 Years

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Ratings for the Epson Stylus Pro 3800 are expected to be comparable. Actual print stability will vary according to media, printed image, display conditions, light

intensity, humidity, and atmospheric conditions. Epson does not guarantee longevity of prints. For maximum print life, display all prints under glass, UV filter,

lamination or properly store them. See www.wilhelm-research.com for the latest information.

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Professional Print Permanence Ratings

Professional UV Display Conditions

Epson Media Type

Color Rating

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Black and White Rating

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Premium Glossy Photo Paper (250)

98 Years

> 135 Years

Premium Luster Photo Paper – Roll or Sheet

165 Years

> 218 Years

Premium Semimatte Photo Paper (250)

133 Years

> 170 Years

UltraSmooth™ Fine Art Paper

175 Years

> 300 Years

Somerset Velvet for Epson

128 Years

> 168 Years

Somerset Velvet for Epson w/PremierArt™ Spray

200 Years

> 312 Years

Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper

125 Years

> 125 Years

Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper w/PremierArt™ Spray

168 Years

> 178 Years

Enhanced Matte Paper

110 Years

110 Years

PremierArt™ Water Resistant Canvas for Epson

130 Years

> 150 Years

Permanence ratings are based on accelerated testing of prints made on the Epson Stylus Pro 4800 on specialty media, displayed indoors, under glass or UV filter.

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Ratings for the Epson Stylus Pro 3800 are expected to be comparable. Actual print stability will vary according to media, printed image, display conditions, light

intensity, humidity, and atmospheric conditions. Epson does not guarantee longevity of prints. For maximum print life, display all prints under glass, UV filter,

lamination or properly store them. See www.wilhelm-research.com for the latest information.

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Specifications are subject to change without notice.

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Cartridge yields vary considerably based on images printed, print settings, paper type, frequency of use and temperature.

For print quality, a variable amount of ink remains in the cartridge after the “replace cartridge” indicator comes on.

The printer ships will full cartridges and part of the ink from the first cartridges is used for priming the printer.

See www.epson.com/cartridgeinfo for more information about cartridges.

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Ink lightfastness ratings are based on accelerated testing of prints on specialty media, displayed indoors, under glass or UV plex.

Actual print stability will vary according to media, printed image, display conditions, light intensity, humidity, and atmospheric conditions.

Epson does not guarantee longevity of prints. For maximum print life, display all prints under glass, UV plex, lamination or properly store them.

EPSON, Epson Stylus, Epson UltraChrome, Epson UltraChrome K3, and MicroPiezo are trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation.

BorderFree is a registered trademark and Epson Preferred is a service mark of Epson America, Inc.

All other product brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights to these trademarks.

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