Printer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright and Trademarks
- Contents
- Safety Instructions
- Getting to Know Your Printer
- Printer Features and Various Printing Options
- Paper Handling
- Using the Printer Software with Windows
- About the Printer Software
- Making Changes to Printer Settings
- Making the print quality settings
- Duplex printing
- Displaying information about consumables with the printer driver
- Ordering Consumables
- Resizing printouts
- Modifying the print layout
- Using a watermark
- Using headers and footers
- Using an overlay
- Using storage form overlay
- Making Extended Settings
- Making Optional Settings
- Printing a status sheet
- Using the Reserve Job Function
- Monitoring Your Printer Using EPSON Status Monitor
- Setting Up the USB Connection
- Canceling Printing
- Uninstalling the Printer Software
- Sharing the Printer on a Network
- Using the Printer Software with Macintosh
- Using the PostScript Printer Driver
- Using the PCL6/PCL5 Printer Driver
- Using the Control Panel
- Installing Options
- Replacing Consumable Products
- Cleaning and Transporting the Printer
- Troubleshooting
- Clearing Jammed Paper
- Printing a Status Sheet
- Operational Problems
- Printout Problems
- Color Printing Problems
- Print Quality Problems
- Memory Problems
- Paper Handling Problems
- Problems Using Options
- Correcting USB Problems
- Status and Error Messages
- Canceling Printing
- Printing in the PostScript 3 Mode Problems
- The printer does not print correctly in the PostScript mode
- The printer does not print
- The printer driver or printer that you need to use does not appear in the Printer Setup Utility (Mac OS 10.3.x and 10.4.x), Print Center (Mac OS 10.2.x), or Chooser (Mac OS 9)
- The font on the printout is different from that on the screen
- The printer fonts cannot be installed
- The edges of texts and/or images are not smooth
- The printer does not print normally via the USB interface
- The printer does not print normally via the network interface
- An undefined error occurs (Macintosh only)
- Insufficient memory to print data (Macintosh only)
- Customer Support
- Technical Specifications
- Index

Using the Control Panel 184
EPSON AcuLaser C3800 User's Guide
PS3 Menu
This menu allows you to make settings which affect the printer when it is in the PS3 mode.
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Available only when connected via Network interface.
Error Sheet
When you select On, the printer prints out an error sheet when an error occurs in the PS3
mode or when the PDF file you tried to print is not a supported version.
Coloration
Allows you to select the color printing or black-and-white printing mode.
Image Protect
The printer employs lossy compression when Off is selected. The printer does not employ
lossy compression when On is selected. Lossy compression refers to a data compression
technique in which some amount of data is lost.
Binary
Specifies the data format. Select On for the Binary data and select Off for the ASCII data.
Note:
❏ Binary can only be used with network connection.
❏ You do not have to select On when using AppleTalk.
To use the Binary data, make sure your application supports Binary data and that SEND
CTRL-D Before Each Job and SEND CTRL-D After Each Job are set to No.
When this setting is set to On, you cannot use TBCP (Tagged binary communication
protocol) in the printer driver settings.
Item Settings (default in bold)
Error Sheet Off, On
Coloration Color, Mono
Image Protect Off, On
Binary
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Off, On
Text Detection Off, On
PDF Page Size Auto, A4, A5, B5, LT, HLT, LGL, GLT, GLG, EXE, DL, C5, IB5