EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000
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1.1 Overview
The EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 is a high-performance color ink jet printer designed for the office market
as well as for plotter use with a wide paper availability up to full A2 size. The main features of this printer
are:
Paper availability in wide range
A-2 (ANSI C-size) paper supported
Printable area 410 mm (width) (A-2 /ANSI C-size paper)
Left and right margin 5 mm (A2-size paper)
0.5 inch (C-size paper)
Paper handling with ease
Built-in ASF with a wide paper page capability (up to C-size portrait) and high capacity
This ASF holds: 100 cut sheets (55g/m
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10 envelops
30 transparency films
70 special paper *(up to A3)
30 special paper *(Super A3 or larger)
∗:360 dpi ink jet paper, photo quality ink jet paper.
Roll paper Fed with a high accuracy making no skew
Push tractor for the office use (for pre-printed continuous paper)
High Speed Printing
LQ mode 400 cps at 10 cpi
Draft mode 800 cps at 10 cpi
2 interfaces built-in and 1 optional interface card
Mac serial interface (up to approximately 900 kbps/1.8 Mbps)
Bi-directional parallel interface (IEEE1284 level 1 device)
Optional Type-B interface card
High print quality for color graphics
High Resolution 1440 (H) X 720 (V) dpi printing
4 color printing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Printing Method Traditional and new micro weave printing
Smaller dot diameter for image improvement
4 scalable fonts and 5 LQ fonts
Scalable fonts Roman T, Sans Serif H, Roman, Sans Serif
LQ fonts Roman, Sans Serif, Courier, Prestige, Script (LQ)27
27 usable character tables
Italic, PC437, PC850, PC860, PC861, PC863, PC865, BRASCII,
Abicomp, Roman 8, ISO Latin 1, PC437 Greek, PC852, PC853,
PC855,PC857, PC866, PC869, MOZOAWIA, Code MJK, ISO 8559-7,
Fi
ure 1-1. Exterior View of the EPSON St
lus COLOR 3000
