Epson 3800 Printing Costs

March 22, 2011 ·

Mark Segal

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 in...

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Mark Segal

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Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.