Epson 3800 Printing Costs

By Mark D. Segal
Readers of my previous two articles on the cost of printing with theEpson 4000and theEpson 4800will be familiar with the methodology explained there for recording the data and allocating costs between ink for printing and ink for cleaning.
When I acquired anEpson 3800last October, I thought it would be a simple matter to clone the same Excel spreadsheet and implement the same analysis for a long enough time period to collect a reliable sample of information from which to calculate trustworthy Epson 3800 printing cost estimates. It was not to be, because in Epson driver version 5.51 for Windows, comprehensive information about the amount of ink used for maintenance is no longer reported – definitely not in the nozzle check print-outs as it used to be, and some of it only in a cumbersome manner by activating the LFP remote panel for each job. I won’t speculate as to why Epson made this change to the driver’s behaviour, but rather focus on the ink for p...