Digital BW, The Print

I too have a 3800, but having owned several previous Epson printers 
was not in the least bit surprised that the canned profiles are 
mediocre at best, they always have been. But I agree they should do 
a lot better, at least for the more expensive printers.
My big disappointment with the 3800 is the paper handling-for this 
price, size, and class of machine it is absolutely miserable. It 
frequently (and repeatedly) rejects properly aligned rear-fed paper 
as 'skewed' and then proceeds to feed it and print it crooked. And 
top feeding 17" paper is very hit-or miss. It seems like every 3rd 
or 4th piece goes in skewed, sometimes resulting in a paper jam. 
I've had to rig up a guide extension using the lid of a 17x22" paper 
box to get it to feed right. Needing to come up a with such a rinky-
dink fix for a $1200 machine is absolutely galling, particulalry 
when they have produced so many smaller and much cheaper machines 
that work properly.
If there's another class-action suit brewing out there, I would 
happily add my name to the list!

Steven Karafyllakis

-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m, "digikdm" 
<monroekd@...> wrote:
>
> I have been printing with my new Epson 3800 for about 1 month, and 
I
> am a bit dismayed that the B&W prints I'm getting using the 
intrinsic
> Epson driver (with or without third party profiles provided by Eric
> Chan) are inferior to the B&W prints I get using ImagePrint with my
> Epson 2200 printer.