[Leica] My Epson Stylus Pro 3800 has arrived from Utah

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Brian congrats on the new family member.
Two comments for you.
1. Mrs Reid really considered the setup of a new printer on your home 
network as a suitable activity on her birthday?? The lady must
be a saint.
2. Please publish the address of this printer and I'll send some print jobs 
your way ;-)

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Reid
Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:34
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] My Epson Stylus Pro 3800 has arrived from Utah

Well, my wife wanted some grandchild pictures, so setting up the Epson 3800 
on her birthday ended up being a marriage-friendly
activity.

The photographic quality of this printer is exactly what you want and expect 
it to be. I'm not going to say anything about that.
What I want to report on is its systems engineering, which is absolutely top 
flight.

The automatic switching  between Photo Black and Matte Black is great. It 
decides which ink to use based on the paper that you tell
it you are using (here's a screen dump of the MacOS paper select menu)

    http://reid.org/~brian/misc/e3800PaperMenu.png

This next screen dump will mean something to you MacOS types, PC folks are 
welcome to listen in.  A new entry in the print menu is
"Supply Levels":

    http://reid.org/~brian/misc/e3800PrintMenu.png


(Never mind that it's in there twice; that hurts nothing except the 
programmer's pride). If you select it during the print dialog,
here's what you get:

    http://reid.org/~brian/misc/e3800MacOS.png

Yup: you can check on ink levels before actually launching a print.

Because the printer is Ethernet connected, you can manage and configure it 
in a web browser. I kinda wimped out and used Bonjour to
configure mine. I wanted to be hardass and use IPP, but I did have some wine 
with dinner.  And Bonjour just sort of works.

The network interface is at home with DHCP, DDNS (rather over the top, I'd 
say), and UPnP. I made a static DHCP entry for it and it
got all of its config information from the DHCP server (which is how I like 
to do it).  Once it's on the net, you do the rest in a
browser:

    http://reid.org/~brian/misc/e3800netconf.png

This is a very nice printer and a very nice home-network component.

Brian