EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 manual feeder edge guides (banner paper holders) banner paper cover Media printer cover thickness lever Media name Size Part number EPSON 360 dpi Ink Jet Paper Letter A4 Super A3/B S041060 S041059 S041066 control panel EPSON High Quality Ink Jet Paper Letter A4 S041111 S041117 ink cartridge compartment EPSON Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper Letter A4 Legal B Super A3/B A2 S041062 S041061 S041067, S041048 S041070 S041069 S041079 EPSON Photo Quality Glossy Paper A4 Letter
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 Fonts Printer Specifications Bitmap fonts Printing Printing method Nozzle configuration Font 10 cpi 12 cpi 15 cpi Proportional x EPSON Roman x x x On-demand ink jet EPSON Sans Serif x x x x Monochrome (black) 128 nozzles Color (cyan, magenta, yellow) 192 nozzles, 64 of each color EPSON Courier x x x — EPSON Prestige x x x — EPSON Script x x x — cpi=characters per inch. Select other font/pitch combinations using the ESC/P 2 commands.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 Paper Paper type Size Paper types Thickness Weight Single sheets Letter (8.5 × 11 inches) A4 (210 × 297 mm) A5 (148 × 210 mm) Legal (8.5 × 14 inches) Half Letter (5.5 × 8.5 inches) Executive (7.5 × 10 inches) A2 (420 × 594 mm) Super A3/B (13 × 19 inches) A3 (297 × 420 mm) Ledger (11 × 17 inches) US C (17 × 22 inches) B3 (364 × 514 mm) B4 (257 × 364 mm) B5 (182 × 257 mm) Plain bond paper and special ink jet papers distributed by EPSON 0.0025 to 0.004 inch (0.065 to 0.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 Printable areas Ink Cartridges Single sheets and index cards Black (S020118) Cyan (S020130) Print capacity* 3800 pages/ A4 (ISO/IEC 10561 Letter Pattern at 360 dpi) 2100 pages (A4, 360 dpi, 5% duty each color) Cartridge life 2 years from production date, if unopened Storage temperature –22 to 104 °F (–30 to 40 °C) 1 month at 104 °F (40 °C) Transit temperature –22 to 122 °F (–30 to 50 °C) 1 month at 104 °F (40 °C) 120 hours at 122 °F (50 °C) –22 to 140 °F (–30 to 60 °C)
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 Electrical Reverse channel Specification 120V Model 220−240V Model Input voltage range 103.5 to 132V 198 to 264V Rated frequency range 50 to 60 Hz Input frequency range 49.5 to 60.5 Hz Rated current 0.7A Power consumption Approx. 21W (ISO/IEC 10561 Letter Pattern) 0.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 Lights Buttons The Operate light is on when the printer is on. When the Operate light flashes, the printer is receiving data. It may also flash with other lights during certain operations or error conditions. Operate Paper Out S All the lights Feeds paper line by line. Loads a single sheet or advances continuous or banner paper to the next top-of-form position if held down. Load/Eject When paper is not loaded, loads a sheet of paper or a single sheet of continuous paper.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 Testing the Printer Default Control Panel Settings You can run a printer self test to determine whether the problem lies with the printer itself or some other source. You can change the following “default” settings from the printer’s control panel: ❏ If the test results are satisfactory, the problem lies in your computer or its printer port, software settings, or the interface cable. ❏ If the test pages don’t print correctly, you may have a problem with your printer.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 4. If you want to print the default-setting instructions in another language, press the Micro Adjust U button until the Ink Out B Yellow and Ink Out B Magenta lights on your control panel indicate the language you want to use. English French German Italian Spanish Portuguese 3. Open the ink cartridge packages. 4. Insert the cartridges, foil plug first, arrow on top, into the slots. Insert cartridges in the following order: yellow, magenta, cyan, and black.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 Removing and Installing an Ink Cartridge Printing in Black Ink With an Empty Color Cartridge When an Ink Out B light flashes, the indicated cartridge is low on ink. This is a good time to make sure you have a new cartridge. When the light stays on, the cartridge is empty and you need to replace it. If a color ink cartridge runs out of ink and its Ink Out B light comes on, you can still continue printing with black ink.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 Setting the Thickness Lever When you load media with this name . . . Load a maximum of this many sheets in the paper tray . . . Plain paper (single sheets) 100 letter size 30 Super A3/B size 30 A2 size Plain paper (continuous paper) (See Chapter 3 of the User’s Guide for loading instructions.) Envelopes 10 Labels (single sheets) (See Chapter 3 of the User’s Guide for loading instructions.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 4. Click the Utility tab (Windows) or the Utility button (Macintosh). You see the Utility menu. Examining the Nozzle Check Pattern Examine the nozzle check pattern you print. It should look something like this, with the lower pattern colored cyan, magenta, and yellow: 5. Click the Head Cleaning icon. 6. Follow the instructions on the screen to clean the print heads. You can clean the black or color print head separately, or you can clean both.
EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 5. You see an installation instruction screen. Follow the instructions on the screen to install the utility on your computer’s hard disk drive. Transporting the Printer Caution: If you don’t follow the procedures in this section, ink will leak when you transport the printer. 6. Once the utility is installed, log onto the directory you specified for the utility. Then type EPCALIB and press Enter to start the program.
