Epson AcuLaser C3800 - Solution For Your Color Printing Needs
This printer is rather large, mostly in height, and weighs just over 30 kg (with all toner cartridges and other fillings). Cartridges are installed vertically along the front wall ensuring a sufficiently rapid single-pass color printing. Below is the main cassette tray for 500 sheets.
To open the multipurpose tray, you need to disassemble almost the whole front cover. The tray takes a lot of space, but it is not designed for frequent use, except for occasional printing of a page or two. On the right from the multipurpose tray, there's a USB port for flash drives.
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The Aculaser C3800 has a function of secure printing implemented with the USB port. It's simple -- no need to enter passwords on your computer first, and then on the printer control panel, simply use a flash drive.
On that same right-side wall, there are the power button and interface connectors. USB and Ethernet slots are hidden in a fairly deep niche you can access by lifting a small lid.
The output tray is deep enough to accommodate a 250-page document. For insurance, you can set the plastic catcher, although during tests paper never fell off. At a high speed of printing, the printer does not spit out ready documents, but gently lays them into the output tray.
Control Panel is rather standard, with a small but quite contrast LCD display. Navipad of four buttons is useful; the cancel button is located in a noticeable place, which is good.
To get to the cartridges, you need to open the entire front panel of the printer, together with the control panel. Cartridges are arranged vertically; removing and installing them is very easily, just pull the little handlers of the same color, which is located on the toner cartridge.
Driver of the Epson Aculaser C3800 is very much similar to that of inkjet printers, and from them it adapted the "Photo" tab in the simplified menu.
On the first tab, you may set the printing quality, paper size and paper source. On the same page, when you click the "Advanced" button, a tab with color management and resolution setting opens. There you can switch between color and monochrome printing modes, different color management presets; you can also manually adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and color.
Single-pass design makes it possible to print monochrome and color documents with virtually the same speed. This is exactly the case with Epson C3800: printing of color and monochrome text document took the same amount of time (20 pages per minute), although the specifications for black and white printing are 25 ppm. Printing a complex document (text and graphics) at 1200 dpi took almost 10 times longer than at 300 dpi. Don't waste your time on that -- you'll unlikely to get a better quality, except if the document has a lot of photos.
Printing quality at the resolution of 300 dpi is good in general, although the contours of letters are not very clear, the text reads well in 4 pt font. At 1200 dpi the contours of characters are much clearer, once again 4 pt fonts are well-read.
In terms of color, you can hardly find fault in the C3800. The colors are juicy, rich, without gaps and fills. Photos are printed almost perfectly: no spurious tones, only monochrome images manifested slight blue tint. Good details without clearly visible raster; tonal and color transitions are smooth.
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