Epson Stylus Color 3000 Inkjet Printer

by Epson

Product Details

Product Manual [210kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 53 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004SYVG
• Item model number: C203011B
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 12, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With the Epson Stylus Color 3000 inkjet printer, the burgeoning artist and the professional photographer will possess a user-friendly photo lab for photo-quality printing of light-stable, water-resistant prints. Why wait for prints from your neighborhood developer (if you are lucky enough to have one) when the Epson Stylus Color 3000 printer can fill most of your needs, for everything from proofs to portfolios?

Taking advantage of Epson's Micro Piezo inkjet technology with QuickDry inks and AcuPhoto halftoning, the serious user will appreciate the full-bleed, up-to-13-by-19-inch design layout prints at 1,400 x 720 dpi. Everyone, including novices, will appreciate the fine shadow detailing and natural flesh tones delivered by a four-color CMYK palette, resulting in lasting, fine-quality prints.

The Epson 3000 delivers professional-looking graphics for yourportfolios, posters, and presentations through attention to details,such as quick-drying inks to protect your prints from smudging orbleeding, in Pantone-calibrated approved colors. It supports AdobePostScript level 2 and options for internal Ethernet for EtherTalk,Novell, and TCP/IP networking, making it ideal for growing officeenvironments.

Standard connections include IEEE 1284 parallel, USB, and serial ports, and drivers for both Windows and Macintosh systems. The Epson Stylus Color 3000 comes with the full assurance of a two-year limited warranty and a toll-free support hotline to answer your questions.

From the Manufacturer

The Epson Stylus Color 3000 represents the ultimate in desktop photo-quality full-bleed output. Using Epson's proprietary Micro Piezo inkjet technology, QuickDry inks, and AcuPhoto halftoning, the Epson Stylus Color 3000 represents a powerful and persuasive tool for presenting your graphical ideas to clients.

Developed with the graphic designer in mind, the Epson Stylus Color 3000 allows you to present full, 13-by-44-inch design layouts at an astonishing 1,440 x 720 dpi. With its superior photo quality, the Stylus Color 3000 is the best investment you can make in your design career. Just imagine, full-bleed output that rivals the quality of products costing thousands more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate Color, Great Paper Tray, April 10, 2001

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Kevin Barrack (San Mateo, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 3000 Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

I have used this printer for the last three years. As a visual designer and a fine artist I have used this to print all sorts of design projects, illustrations, and web pages.

The colors this produces are a better match to what I see onscreen than any other color printer I have used (HP deskjets, HP color laser, Apple color laser). Even at "normal" quality on cheap paper, the prints are good enough to frame. I used this printer with photo quality paper to print the portfolio I show at job interviews. The dithering is subtle, with none of the dark-dot-amongst-light-dots problems that cause a speckled look on cheap printers.

The colors are vibrant, but ACCURATE (unlike the HP printers that always print colors oversaturated). As other reviewers have noted, the ink cartridges (separate for each color!) last a long time, typically several months with heavy usage.

The printing is fast, even at high quality, much faster than color laser printers, and comparable to most desktop printers.

The flat paper tray (as opposed to inclined) rarely jams. The tray can hold about 50 sheets of paper, so it is good for use in an office environment being shared by many people.

This can handle even light card stock, although I have had some varieties of 80# card stock JAM and refuse to go through. Unfortunately, the stock is forced to go through the rollers, and there is no way to open the back to allow it to go straight through and avoid jamming on heavy stock. This is the only bad thing about this printer.

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent print quality and cheap to run, July 4, 2000

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Peter Wilson (Austin, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 3000 Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

The 3000 does a couple of things that more recent (affordable) printers don't do. First, it prints up to 16" by 20" (actually, 17" x 22") - and Epson's paper is available and reasonably priced. The other is that it has large, independent ink reservoirs. Each colour is independently changeable, so you never get to dump useful ink. And the ink reservoirs are enormous - we've been printing photos and full-colour pages since Christmas '99 and the thing *still* has ink left seven months later; this in sharp contrast to our experiences with the 'consumer' printers, which need rather frequent ink refills. Don't be misled by the claims of 'long-life' inks on more recent printers; while the claims are true enough,you can buy ink and materials for the 3000 which give you archival quality prints (your choice: 15-20 years; or longer) along with the benefits of large image size and very low running costs. And yes, the prints are gorgeous (although 6-colour prints *are* a little better, you have to squint to tell)

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tops for specialty transfer printing., May 21, 2000

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Cathy A. Robinson (Ipan, Guam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 3000 Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

I have used this printer for about a year now and for the specialty transfer business I haven't found another printer in its price range to match the sharpness, color control or speed. This printer is one of the few larger format printers (up to 17" x 22") that will accept the sublimation inks used for top quality transfer printing. Because the printer uses individual ink cartridges for each color you don't end up throwing away perfectly good ink in a partially filled cartridge when one color has run out. Do be careful, though, the ink indicator seems to jump from half to empty without adequate warning.