Hi Fred:
I completely agree with the reply below.
I will say that if you choose the plain paper setting and 360dpi with just the black ink (only available with Plain Paper) in the driver, you can get very good output with the Epson SP 3880, and I would assume, the SP 3800.
Hope that helps,
Andrew
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On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, pdesmidt tds.net wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Beutler Frederick <fjb@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > My limited space does not permit using more than one printer. Furthermore,
> > I need to print not only photography, but also memoranda, letters, etc. I
> > have heard that the Epson 3800, 4800 series does very poorly printing
> > letters and such. Is this true? If not, what settings does one use to print
> > ordinary 8.5x11 black and white documents on ordinary paper?
> >
> > Fred
> >
> Well, that depends a bit. On plain paper, a bw laser printer will print
> sharper text than any inkjet printer, mainly due to the ink's spreading out
> a bit on the very absorbant paper, a phenomonon known as "dot gain". On
> inkjet paper, though, the inkjet printer will print very nice text, and
> it'll be able to print photos much better than the laser printer. If you
> need to print a lot of BW text pages, a laser printer is really the way to
> go. They can be very small, fast printing, clog free, and inexpensive. If
> you really can only have one printer, and you want to print good photos,
> then an inkjet can certainly do the job, as well as being a pretty good text
> printer on plain paper. For letter printing on plain paper, if you rate a
> dot-matrix printer a 1 for quality and a 1200 dpi laser printer a 10, an
> Epson 4880 would receive about a 6 or 7. Using inexpensive inkjet coated
> paper raises that rating to a 9.
>
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