Epson Stylus Pro 3800 User Manual [ru]

EPSON Stylus Pro 3800 User’s Guide

User’s Guide

NPD2382-00

EPSON Stylus Pro 3800 User’s Guide

Copyrights and Trademarks

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EPSON Epson Corporation.

Microsoft

Apple

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is a registered trademark, and EPSON STYLUS™ and Exceed Your Vision are trademarks of Seiko

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Chapter 1 Printing with Windows

Printer Software Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Accessing the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

From Windows XP x64 and XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

From Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

From Windows applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Basic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Making the printer driver settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Canceling printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Making Settings on the Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Making the Media Type setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Making the Color setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Making the Mode setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Making Advanced setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Checking the Ink Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Previewing your printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the Print Assistant function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Making Settings on the Paper Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Making the Paper Source setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Making the Borderless setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Making the Paper Size setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Making the Copies setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Making the Orientation settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Making Settings on the Layout Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Making the Reduce/Enlarge setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Making Double-Sided Printing setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Making Multi-Page settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Making the Optimize Enlargement setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Printer Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Checking the print head nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Cleaning the print head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Aligning the print head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Starting EPSON LFP Remote Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Making the Speed & Progress settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Getting Information Through Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Checking Printer Status and Managing Print Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using the Progress Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Using EPSON Status Monitor 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Increasing the Print Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

General tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using Speed & Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Sharing Your Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

For Windows XP x64 and XP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

For Windows 2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Updating and Uninstalling the Printer Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Updating the driver in Windows XP x64, XP, or 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Uninstalling the printer driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Chapter 2 Printing with Mac OS X

Printer Software Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Accessing the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Accessing the Page Setup dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Accessing the Print dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Accessing the Utility dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Page Setup Dialog Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Format for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Paper Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Print Dialog Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Copies & Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Output Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Scheduler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Paper Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

ColorSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Print Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Printer Color Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Paper Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Saving your settings in the Print dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using your saved settings in the Print dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Performing Borderless Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Canceling Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Printer Utility Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Accessing the EPSON Printer Utility2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Using the Printer Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Checking the print head nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Cleaning the print head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Aligning the print head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Starting EPSON LFP Remote Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Print Assistant function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Getting Information Through Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Uninstalling the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Chapter 3 The Control Panel

Buttons, Lights, and Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Combination of buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Menu Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

When to use Menu mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Menu list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Basic Menu setting procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Details of Menu mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Checking the print head nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Aligning the print head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Making the paper settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Printing a status sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Maintenance Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Maintenance mode setting procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Maintenance mode list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Details of Maintenance mode items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Chapter 4 Paper Handling

Notes on Epson Special Media and Other Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Epson special media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using paper other than Epson special media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Cut Sheet Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Checking the paper path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Loading cut-sheet media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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Replacing Ink Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Replacing the Maintenance Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Cleaning the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

If you have not used your printer for a long time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Transporting the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Over a long distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Over a short distance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Setting up the printer after transporting it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Chapter 6 Problem Solver

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Printer stops printing unexpectedly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

The printer does not turn on or stay on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

The printer prints nothing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Printouts are not what you expected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Print Quality Could be Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Color documents print in black only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Printing could be faster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Paper skew occurs when printing on A3 or larger plain paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Paper feed or paper jam problems occur frequently . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Clearing paper jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

About color management system (CMS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Color management by driver ICM (Windows XP x64, XP, or 2000 only). . . . . . . . . . . 165

Color management by Host ICM or ColorSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Color management by application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Paper Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Paper settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Technical Support Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Before Contacting Epson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Help for Users in North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Help for Users in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Help for Users in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Help for Users in Singapore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Help for Users in Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Help for Users in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Help for Users in Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Help for Users in Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Help for Users in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Help for Users in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Help for Users in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

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Printer Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Printable area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Mechanical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Standards and Approvals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Ink cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

To use your printer with Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

To use your printer with Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Interface Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

USB interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Ethernet interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Chapter 8 Options and Consumable Products

Consumable Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Maintenance cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Ink cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Epson Special Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Cut sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Safety Instructions

Important Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

When choosing a place for this product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

When setting up this product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

When using this product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

When handling the ink cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

When transporting this product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Warning, Cautions, and Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

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Chapter 1

Printing with Windows

Printer Software Introduction

The printer software that comes with your printer includes a printer driver and printer

utilities. The printer driver lets you choose from a variety of settings to get the best results

from your printer. The printer utilities help you check the printer and keep it in top condition.

The printer software includes the following menus.

Menu Settings and Utilities

Main Media Type, Color, Mode, Ink Levels, Print Preview, Print Assistant

Paper Paper Source, Borderless, Paper Size, Copies, Orientation

Layout Reduce/Enlarge, Double-Sided Printing, Multi-Page, Optimize Enlargement

Utility EPSON Status Monitor 3, Nozzle Check, Head Cleaning, Print Head

Alignment, EPSON LFP Remote Panel, Speed & Progress

For information on making printer driver settings, see “Making Settings on the Main Menu”

on page 14, “Making Settings on the Paper Menu” on page 32, and “Making Settings on the

Layout Menu” on page 37.

For information on the printer utilities, see “Using the Printer Utilities” on page 46.

Note:

❏ The specific features available in the printer software vary depending on the version of

Windows you are using.

❏ The printer driver screens that appear in this manual are provided for EPSON Stylus Pro 3800

running on Windows XP.

The online help provides more information on the printer software. See “Getting

Information Through Online Help” on page 53.

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Accessing the Printer Software

To access the printer software installed in your computer, follow the steps below.

Note:

The specific features available in the printer software vary depending on the versions of Windows

you are using.

From Windows XP x64 and XP

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Printers and Other Hardware, and then click Printers and Faxes.

2. Right-click your printer icon, and click Printing Preferences. The printer software window appears.

From Windows 2000

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then select Printers.

2. Right-click your printer icon, and click Printing Preferences. The printer software window appears.

From Windows applications

1. Click Print or Page Setup on the File menu.

2. Make sure your printer is selected, and click Printer, Setup, Options, Properties, or Preference. Depending on your application, you may need to click a combination of these buttons. The printer software windows appears.

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Basic Settings

Making the printer driver settings

This section describes the basic printer driver settings for printing your data.

To make the basic printer driver settings, follow the steps below.

1. Click Print on the File menu of your application. The Print dialog box appears.

2. Make sure your printer is selected, and then click Properties or Options. You may need to click a combination of these buttons. The driver settings window appears.

3. Click the Main tab. The Main menu appears.

4. From Media Type, select a media that matches the paper loaded in the printer. See “Media Type setting list” on page 15.

Note:

❏ Check the media type and its paper path. See “Paper path list” on page 120.

❏ The Media Type setting determines what other settings are available; therefore, always

make this setting first.

❏ Some media types are not available depending on the Paper Source setting you have

selected.

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5. Make the Color setting. Select Color to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only.

If you want to print advanced monochrome photos, select Advanced B&W Photo.

Note: When printing on any media, we recommend Color even if the data to print is black.

6. Make the Mode setting. Check that Automatic is selected.

7. Adjust Speed and Quality in the Mode box if a slider appears. Drag the slider to the left or right depending on which is more important.

If you have selected Advanced B&W Photo as the Color setting, select the Color Toning setting from the pull-down menu.

Note:

Depending on the Media Type setting you choose, a slider may not appear in the Mode box.

8. Select the color control mode from the pull-down menu in the Mode box. For detailed information, see “Color Control mode” on page 17.

9. Click the Paper tab. The Paper menu appears.

10.Select a paper source from the Paper Source list.

Note:

Some paper sources are not available depending on the media type you have selected.

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11.Select Borderless to print your data without margins. See “Making the Borderless setting” on page 33.

12. From the Paper Size list, select the size of paper loaded in the printer.

Note:

Most Windows applications feature paper size settings that override similar settings in the printer driver.

13. Make settings for Copies and Orientation, as necessary.

14.Click the Layout tab. The Layout menu appears.

Note:

The Double-Sided Printing functions is available only when Sheet is selected as the Paper Source setting.

15.Select Reduce/Enlarge, and then adjust the size of printed data, if necessary. See “Making the Reduce/Enlarge setting” on page 38.

16.Select Double-Sided Printing, and then make settings as needed. See “Making Double-Sided Printing setting” on page 38.

17.Select Multi-Page, and then make settings as needed. See “Making Multi-Page settings” on page 43.

18.Click OK. The screen returns to the Print Setup dialog box (or a similar dialog box) of your application.

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19.Click Print to start printing.

While printing is in progress, the EPSON Progress Meter appears, showing the printing progress and the status of your printer.

Canceling printing

To cancel printing in progress, click Stop on the EPSON Progress Meter.

You can also pause or restart printing. To pause printing, click Pause. To resume printing, click this button again.

Caution:

If you stop printing in progress, you may need to start printing again from the beginning for

best result; otherwise, misalignment or banding may appear in the printed image.

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Making Settings on the Main Menu

From this menu, you can make the Media Type, Color, and Mode settings, and also check the ink cartridge status. You can also access the User’s Guide, the paper information, and the Technical Support Web Site by clicking the Print Assistant button.

Making the Media Type setting

The Media Type setting determines what other settings are available; therefore, always make this setting first.

From Media Type, select a media that matches the paper loaded in the printer. Locate your paper in the list, and then select a corresponding Media Type setting. For some types of paper, several Media Type settings are available for selection.

Note:

❏ The black ink automatically changes depending on the media type you choose.

❏ The availability of special media varies by country.

❏ When using paper other than Epson special media, see “Notes on Epson Special Media and

Other Media” on page 119.

❏ For the latest information on the special media available in your area, refer to the Epson

customer support Web site. See “Contacting Customer Support” on page 174.

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Media Type setting list

Media Type Setting Epson Special Media Name/Description

Premium Luster Photo Paper Premium Luster Photo Paper

Premium Glossy Photo Paper Premium Glossy Photo Paper

Premium Semigloss Photo Paper Premium Semigloss Photo Paper

Proofing Paper Semimatte EPSON Proofing Paper Semimatte

Plain Paper - Photo Black -

Enhanced Matte Paper Enhanced Matte Paper

Archival Matte Paper Archival Matte Paper

Velvet Fine Art Paper Velvet Fine Art Paper

UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper

(Commercial)

Watercolor Paper - Radiant White Watercolor Paper - Radiant White

Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper

Singleweight Matte Paper Singleweight Matte Paper

Plain Paper - Matte Black -

Singleweight Matte Paper (line drawing) Singleweight Matte Paper

Making the Color setting

Make the Color setting. Select Color to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only. If you want to print advanced monochrome photos, select Advanced B&W Photo.

Note:

When printing on any media, we recommend Color even if the data to print is black.

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Making the Mode setting

You can select either the Automatic or Custom mode. These modes are provided to give you two levels of control over the printer driver.

Automatic mode

Automatic mode is the quickest and easiest way to start printing. When Automatic is selected, the printer driver takes care of all detailed settings based on the current Media Type and Color settings.

Quality and Speed slider

Depending on the media you choose in the Media Type setting while Color or Black is selected as the Color setting and Automatic as the Mode setting, a Quality or Speed slider appears in the Mode box. Select Quality when print quality is more important than print speed. Select Speed when print speed is more important than print quality.

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Color Control mode

When Color is selected as the Color setting and Automatic as the Mode setting, the Color Control pull-down menu appears in the Mode box.

You can select from the following settings.

EPSON Vivid Select this setting to produce vivid blue and green tones in printouts.

Note: Because this setting reproduces blue and green tones that cannot be displayed by your monitor, your printouts may differ from the screen images when this function is selected.

Charts and Graphs

EPSON Standard (sRGB)

Adobe RGB Matches image color to Adobe RGB.

Intensifies the colors and lightens the midtones and highlights of an image. Use this setting for presentation graphics, such as charts and graphs.

Increases the contrast in images. Use this setting for color photographs.

Color Toning

When you select Advanced B&W Photo as the Color setting while Automatic is selected, the Color Toning pull-down menu appears in the Mode box.

You can select from the following settings.

Neutral This setting provides standard image correction for most photos. Try this first.

Cool This setting gives a cool tone to your photos.

Warm This setting gives a warm tone to your photos.

Sepia This setting applies a sepia tone to your photos.

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Custom mode

The Custom mode lets you make a wide range of changes with a single click of the mouse. In the Custom Settings pull-down menu, you will find ready-made settings provided by Epson.

Note:

These ready-made settings may not appear, depending on the Media Type and Color settings.

Advanced Photo 2880

PhotoEnhance This mode lets you select image-correction settings specially designed for

Good for printing scanned photos and digitally captured images in high quality. Helps prevent misprinting of ink dots that may occur due to movement of the print head and paper.

scanned or digitally captured photos.

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Making Advanced setting

The Advanced setting gives you complete control over your printing environment. Use these settings to experiment with new printing ideas, or to fine-tune a range of print settings to meet your individual needs. Once you are satisfied with your new settings, you can give them a name and add them to the Custom Settings pull-down menu.

To make Advanced settings, follow the steps below.

1. Select Custom from the Main menu, and then click Advanced. The Advanced dialog box appears.

2. Make sure a media matching the media loaded in the printer is selected. See “Media Type setting list” on page 15.

3. Make the Color setting. Select Color to print color or monochrome photos, or Black to print a draft or black text only. If you want to print advanced monochrome photos, select Advanced B&W Photo.

Note: When printing on any media, we recommend Color even if the data to print is black.

4. Select a Print Quality setting.

5. If you are using non-Epson special media, click the Paper Config button, and then make settings as needed. For details, see “Paper Configuration” on page 20.

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6. Make the Printer Color Management settings. For details, see “Printer Color Management” on page 22.

Note:

Some settings are enabled or disabled depending on the Media Type, Color, and Print Quality settings you have made.

7. Make other settings as needed. For details, see the online help.

8. Click OK to apply your settings and then return to the Main menu. If you want to return to the previous screen without applying your settings, click Cancel.

Paper Configuration

The following settings in the Paper Configuration dialog box let you make the detailed paper settings.

Mode Description

Color Density Adjusts the strength of Color Density. Use a value in the range of -50% to

+50%. Drag the slider to the right (+) to deepen the color of your printout or left (-) to lighten its color. You can also type a number (-50 to +50) in the box next to the slider.

Use this function when you print on paper other than Epson special media.

Set the slider to the 0 position when you print on Epson special media.

Note: Deepening of the color of printout may not be possible, depending on the printing mode.

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Drying Time per Print Head Pass

Paper Feed Adjustment

Paper Thickness

Platen Gap Platen Gap is the height from the media loaded in the printer to the print

Adds a waiting time when the print head reaches the end of every pass.

Set this value using the slider or text box. To improve the print quality by using slow ink absorption on the media, set a higher value.

The drying time per print head pass can be set from 0 to 5 seconds, in

0.1 second increments.

Note: If you use this feature, the printing time will be longer.

Controls the paper feeding value, in 0.01% increments. If the paper feeding value is too large, white horizontal micro banding may appear. If the paper feeding value is too small, dark horizontal micro banding may appear.

This value automatically appears according to the Media Type setting. If you use non-Epson media, modify this value for your media. Refer to the paper specifications, or print “Thickness Pattern” to find out the paper thickness.

head. By adjusting this parameter, you may produce better print quality. This is set automatically according to the Paper Thickness setting specified.

Note: Setting Platen Gap to Narrow may produce better print quality, but make sure the media does not wrinkle or touch the print head; otherwise, printed data or the print head surface may be damaged. Use Wider or Wide in such case.

Default button Click this button to return the settings to their factory default values.

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Printer Color Management

Color Controls

This setting provides the color matching and image-enhancement methods. When you select this setting, additional settings appear under the Printer Color Management box where you can select a Mode setting and adjust the color enhancement sliders. For details on the additional settings, see the online help.

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When Advanced B&W Photo is selected as the Color setting, the following screen appears. You can then adjust the advanced monochrome settings. For details on the additional settings, see the online help.

PhotoEnhance

This setting provides a variety of image-correction settings that you can apply to your photo images before printing. PhotoEnhance does not affect your original data. When you select this setting, you will need to make the Digital Camera Correction settings.

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Note:

❏ This mode is available only with 16-, 24-, or 32-bit color data.

❏ Printing with PhotoEnhance selected may increase the time required in printing, depending on

your computer system and the amount of the data contained in your data.

Digital Camera Correction If you are printing photos taken with a digital camera,

Off (No Color Adjustment)

This setting turns off the printer driver color management, which is useful when you use the color management function of the application to apply an ICC profile. See “Color Management” on page 163 for detailed information on color management.

select this check box to give your printed photos a smooth and natural appearance like that of photos taken with a film camera.

Select the Smooth Skin check box to adjust the image to make its skin color smooth.

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ICM

This setting uses the Windows color matching method to automatically adjust printout colors to match colors on your screen. Select this setting when printing scanned photographs or computer graphics. See “Color Management” on page 163 for detailed information on color management.

Note:

Be aware that the ambient light and the age, quality, and settings of the monitor can affect the quality of your color matching.

ICM Mode Select the ICM mode from Host ICM, Driver ICM (Basic), or

Driver ICM (Advanced).

Image, Graphics, and Text check boxes

Input Profile Select an input profile.

These check boxes are available only when Driver ICM (Advanced) is selected as the ICM Mode.

Select the check box you want to set.

This setting is not available when Host ICM is selected as the ICM Mode setting.

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Intent Select the rendering intent or color mapping preference.

Saturation: This setting is the best option for presentation graphics to accurately reproduce vivid colors. Use of this setting is not recommended when printing photo data.

Perceptual: This setting renders an image’s color to appear naturally, and is often used to render the wide color range of the original image. Use of this setting is recommended when printing photo data.

Relative Colorimetric: This setting renders an image by maintaining a relative color range, and is often used when most of the color range before conversion is found in the image after conversion. Use of this setting is recommended when printing photo data.

Absolute Colorimetric: This setting renders an image by maintaining an absolute color range so that there is a 1-to-1 ratio of absolute lab coordinates. This setting is not recommended when printing photo data and normal conversions.

Printer Profile Select a printer profile.

Printer Profile Description

Show all profiles Shows all profiles in the Input Profile and the Printer Profile

Shows the description of the selected printer profile.

pull-down menu.

This setting is not available when Host ICM is selected as the ICM Mode setting.

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Saving the Advanced settings

To save your Advanced settings, follow the steps below.

1. Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.

2. Type a unique name, up to 31 characters, for your settings in the Name text box.

3. Click Save. Your setting will be added to the Custom Setting List.

You can save up to 100 custom settings (including the imported settings). You can select your saved settings from the Custom Settings pull-down menu in the Mode box on the Main menu.

When you select your saved settings in the Custom Settings list, be aware that making new settings, for example Media Type and Color settings, may change your custom settings. This may cause unexpected results in your printouts. If this happens, reselect your saved settings and try printing again.

Note:

The names of the ready-made settings provided by Epson cannot be applied to your new settings.

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Deleting the Advanced settings

To delete your Advanced setting, follow the steps below.

Note:

You cannot delete ready-made settings from the Custom Settings list.

1. Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.

2. Select the name of settings you want to delete.

3. Click Delete. The setting will be deleted from the Custom Settings list.

Exporting and importing the Advanced settings

You can export the custom settings you saved, or import from a custom setting file created in another environment.

Exporting the Advanced settings

To export your custom settings, use the following steps.

1. Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.

2. Select the custom settings you want to export.

3. Click Export.

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4. Select the location where you want to save the file, and then enter the file name.

5. Click Save.

6. When the message “Processing complete.” appears, click OK.

Importing the Advanced settings

To import custom settings, use the following steps.

1. Click Save Settings. The Custom Settings dialog box appears.

2. Click Import.

3. Select the folder where the file for importing settings is located, and then select the file.

4. Click Open.

5. When the message “Processing complete.” appears, click OK.

Checking the Ink Levels

You can check the status of each ink cartridge. The black ink (either Photo or Matte) which is not used is dimmed. When you print, the black ink will change automatically depending on the Media Type setting.

Note:

If your printer is not connected properly or EPSON Status Monitor 3 is not installed, the Ink Level is dimmed.

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Previewing your printout

If you select the Print Preview check box, you can see how your printout will look before printing. When you send a print job to the printer, the EPSON Print Preview window appears, allowing you to make changes before printing.

The EPSON Preview toolbar contains several buttons that you can use to perform the following functions.

Zoom Click this button to enlarge or reduce the size of the previewed

image.

Fit-to-screen Click this button to scale the previewed image so that it fits the

current window size. This is convenient when you want to see the entire image at one time.

Maximum zoom

Printable area on/off

Previous page Click this button to display the previous page. If there is no previous

Next page Click this button to display the next page. If there is no next page, this

Click this button to display the previewed image at the maximum possible zoom ratio.

Click this button to display a rectangle indicating the printable area on the previewed image. The printer cannot print anything which is outside of this rectangle. Click this button again to turn this feature off.

page, this button is not available.

button is not available.

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Contents

Printing with Windows

Printer Software Introduction

Accessing the Printer Software

From Windows XP x64 and XP

From Windows 2000

From Windows applications

Basic Settings

Making the printer driver settings

Canceling printing

Making Settings on the Main Menu

Making the Media Type setting

Making the Color setting

Making the Mode setting

Making Advanced setting

Checking the Ink Levels

Previewing your printout