Epson promotes Aculaser C3800 as a cheap and ergonomic laser printer capable of producing various office documents. This printer is declared to deliver photo results with the quality next to photographic. The C3800 is a fast model; it churns out up to 20 color pages per minute due to implemented single-pass printing system. So, this would be the printer of choice for a company that needs color printing.
The printer is rather bulky and weighs about 30 kg (with all the insides, including toner cartridges). Vertical alignment of cartridges along the frontal panel allows for speedy single-pass color printing. The main input tray of 500-sheet capacity is located beneath the printer.
There is a multipurpose tray to open which you must take off almost the complete front pane. The tray occupies a lot of room, however it's not intended to be used often, but for printing a page or two from time to time. There's a USB socket for memory sticks to the right of the multipurpose tray.
With the Aculaser C3800, you can securely print your documents using the USB port. It's really simple -- you don't have to type passwords on your PC first, and then on the printer control panel, just utilize the flash drive.
The power button and interface ports reside on the same pane. USB and Ethernet ports are located in rather pressing cavity where you can spread if you open a small door.
The output tray can pick up maximum of 250 sheets. There's an option to set a plastic stop to prevent pages from flying off the printer, but even at the high speed of printing the pages never fell off, but were accurately collected into output tray.
Control Panel is pretty much standard; it has a small, yet contrast LCD screen. The 4 buttons of navipad are very practical; the cancel button resides in a visible place -- this 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.
The Epson Aculaser C3800 drivers are very much like the drivers of an inkjet printer. Perhaps, that's where the "Photo" tab in the menu came from.
First tab of the drivers allows adjusting the paper source, paper size and printing quality. Clicking the "Advanced" button on the same page will bring a tab with color management and printing resolution. On that tab you can select printing modes (color and monochrome), setup different color management preset. Also, you may manually specify color, contrast, saturation and brightness.
As it was mentioned before, the Epson C3800 uses a single-pass printing mechanism and that enables printing monochrome and color documents at almost the same velocity: 25 and 20 pages per minute respectively. Producing mixed documents (with graphics and text) at 1200 dpi resolution took as much as 10 times more than at 300 dpi. Yet, there was no dramatic difference in quality. Thus, unless you are not going to print photos, it doesn't make to use that high quality mode.
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.
The printer is rather bulky and weighs about 30 kg (with all the insides, including toner cartridges). Vertical alignment of cartridges along the frontal panel allows for speedy single-pass color printing. The main input tray of 500-sheet capacity is located beneath the printer.
There is a multipurpose tray to open which you must take off almost the complete front pane. The tray occupies a lot of room, however it's not intended to be used often, but for printing a page or two from time to time. There's a USB socket for memory sticks to the right of the multipurpose tray.
With the Aculaser C3800, you can securely print your documents using the USB port. It's really simple -- you don't have to type passwords on your PC first, and then on the printer control panel, just utilize the flash drive.
The power button and interface ports reside on the same pane. USB and Ethernet ports are located in rather pressing cavity where you can spread if you open a small door.
The output tray can pick up maximum of 250 sheets. There's an option to set a plastic stop to prevent pages from flying off the printer, but even at the high speed of printing the pages never fell off, but were accurately collected into output tray.
Control Panel is pretty much standard; it has a small, yet contrast LCD screen. The 4 buttons of navipad are very practical; the cancel button resides in a visible place -- this 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.
The Epson Aculaser C3800 drivers are very much like the drivers of an inkjet printer. Perhaps, that's where the "Photo" tab in the menu came from.
First tab of the drivers allows adjusting the paper source, paper size and printing quality. Clicking the "Advanced" button on the same page will bring a tab with color management and printing resolution. On that tab you can select printing modes (color and monochrome), setup different color management preset. Also, you may manually specify color, contrast, saturation and brightness.
As it was mentioned before, the Epson C3800 uses a single-pass printing mechanism and that enables printing monochrome and color documents at almost the same velocity: 25 and 20 pages per minute respectively. Producing mixed documents (with graphics and text) at 1200 dpi resolution took as much as 10 times more than at 300 dpi. Yet, there was no dramatic difference in quality. Thus, unless you are not going to print photos, it doesn't make to use that high quality mode.
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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Epson Aculaser C3800 works silently, has huge toner cartridges; menus and driver have an interface that is friendly to users. The speed printing is not the most rapid, but it's comfortable for most tasks. Brilliant color reproduction with Epson cartridge models is recommended for printing of presentations and leaflets.
