Review on Epson® Stylus® Pro 3800 printer

Epson Stylus Pro 3800 is Epson’s latest high-end printer which does a lot to blur the line between the amateur-through-enthusiast Stylus Photo line, and the prosumer-through-professional Stylus Pro line printers. It is an A2+ (17 inch) printer using EPSON's well proven UltraChrome K3 inkset used by the R2400 and Pro 4800 (as well as Epson's larger format printers). Epson Stylus Pro 3800 uses eight ink cartridges at a time from its nine 80ml ink cartridges including photo black, light black, light light black, matte black, magenta, light magenta, cyan, light cyan and yellow.

Epson Stylus Pro 3800 can be used for both business and individual purposes. In this printer, the ink is pressurized at the printhead, so there will be minimal ink flow issues resulting in banding, and dead spots, as long as the carts are not ran dry. This is really crucial if you are planning to print economically and use refillable inks, instead of the expensive factory inks.

Epson Stylus Pro 3800 is an A+ (17 inch) printer from Epson using Epson Micro Piezo drop-on-demand inkjet technology, and Epson Variable-sized Droplet Technology and 3.5pl Epson Ultra Mirco Dot print technology. The printer consists of nine 80ml ink cartridges including photo black, light black, light light black, matte black, magenta, light magenta, cyan, light cyan and yellow and is capable of using eight at a time. The print head configuration uses 180 nozzles x 8 colours which improve the quality of printouts. The ink cartridges use intellidge cartridge system for ink level control even on re-inserted cartridges. The printer provides a maximum resolution of 2880 dpi x 1440 dpi for both color, and black and white printers.

• FIVE – General

  Epson Stylus Pro 3800 is an ink jet printer used for printing large format documents up to 17 inch size and offers a print output of a maximum 17 inch x 22 inch. It offers a resolution of 2880 dpi x 1440 dpi for both color and black and white printing. It consists of total nine 80ml ink cartridges, out of which eight are used at a time. The printer also has got an LCD screen which provides printing information.

• FOUR – Technology

  Epson Stylus Pro 3800 uses 3.5pl Epson Ultra Mirco Dot print technology. It uses Epson Micro Piezo drop-on-demand inkjet technology. Epson Stylus Pro 3800 also uses well proven ink type ‘UltraChrome K3 inkset’ used by the R2400 and Pro 4800 (as well as Epson's larger format printers). The printer comes with nine ink cartridges(C,M,Y,LC,LM,LK,LLK,Photo K,Matte K)and is capable of using eight at a time.

• THREE – Ink cartridges

  Epson Stylus Pro 3800 comes with well proven UltraChrome K3 inkset. It consists of nine 80ml ink cartridges including photo black, light black, light light black, matte black, magenta, light magenta, cyan, light cyan and yellow. The printer is capable of using eight cartridges out of the nine at a time. The printer is fitted with three black/grey cartridges, together with an ‘Advanced B/W Photo’ setting on the printer driver toensure perfect greyscale prints.

• TWO – Paper handling

  Epson Stylus Pro 3800 has three ways of getting paper into it. The top sheet feed is used to take normal lighter media (such as photo paper - 10 sheets max); a second feed at the back is used for heavy art papers (single sheet at a time); a front loading slot for straight through feeding of media up to 1.5mm thick.

• ONE –  Connectivity

  Epson Stylus Pro 3800 offers a USB2.0 (Compatible with 1.1) or ethernet (10/100 base N/W) to link your printer up to a computer. The USB connectivity is quite simple to use. Setting up Ethernet network connectivity (for both PCs and Macs) is also pretty straightforward to make the printer available to all computers in a network without the need to have the USB connected computer to be switched on.

Epson Stylus Pro 3800 has managed to come as both blocky and stylish printer at the same time. It offers a larger paper size of 17 inch (A2+). It offers a much better printing with the use of UltraChrome K3 ink set.