ColorWave 3800 printer with Scanner Express IV scanning unit

For the Creators

The ColorWave 3800 inspires confidence with excellent quality and outstanding reliability, when every detail counts. Accelerate your design process with a highly secure and convenient operation, time-saving innovations and an intuitive workflow with the combination of the best technologies.

  • CrystalPoint (4 colour TonerPearl) Technology
  • Up to 106.68mm(42in) Media Width and 6 rolls capacity
  • Perfect for CAD/GIS and Posters
  • TonerPearls (C*, M*, Y*, K*)-(*C-Cyan, M-Magenta, Y-Yellow, K-Black)
  • ‘Green Button’ Approach
  • True Resolution of 600 x 600dpi
Features & Benefits

Features & Benefits

Joy to Work With

Enjoy a hassle-free operation and high print quality in a sustainable and cost-effective solution. Get the true ‘green button’ printing approach with minimal operator intervention to get the right print settings for excellent print output, What You See is What You Print. Printing couldn’t be made easier with accurate live previews, automatic roll switching, roll width detection and easy paper feeding. Access and print from multiple locations at your convenience, ranging from your mobile device, USB flash drive, web browser, applications to your home folder, cloud or local network.

Confidently Meets Your High Standards

The multipass CrystalPoint print technology provides crisp, rock-solid print quality without feathering. The printing process emits no fine dust, ozone or odour and the TonerPearls are non-toxic. Achieve highest security levels with SMARTshield technology, designed to protect your data in all phases of the print process, now and in the future. These security measures have been built for the long term with software support, security updates and remote service. Maximise your productivity with the POWERsync controller which provides sufficient processing power to efficiently handle multiple tasks at once.

Flexible Choice

Increase your choices with high media versatility, print on a broad range of media with an extensive variety of applications, ranging from high-quality technical documents, to full-colour graphics. Further raise your productivity with a media capacity of up to 6 rolls for large jobs or mixed applications without interruption. For an end-to-end solution, tune your print-to-finish solution to your workflow preferences, with the Folder Express 3011, Folder Professional 6011/6013 and Stacker Select.

CrystalPoint

CrystalPoint works on the principle of Solid In – Solid Out for a clean system and no risk of air pollution. Get the best of both worlds – toner and inkjet for instant dry, water resistant, no feathering, highly accurate dot positioning print outputs for a variety of applications.

Paint

PAINT (Piezo Acoustic Integrated Nozzle Technology) technology predicts nozzle failure before printing and ensures drop size correction during the entire liftime of the printer. Consistent high-quality prints are ensured with increased throughput. Printer lifetime is also expanded with the printer checking the status of the printing nozzles and cleans clogged nozzles in just seconds.

MediaSense

MediaSense technology automatically adjusts the optimum print gap between the media and the Imaging Device once for every type of media. This allows you to print on thicker media (up to 800 µm / 30 mil).

POWERsync

POWERsync allows convenient and fast job processing with an open architecture that enables integration with a variety of print management applications. Enjoy lightning-fast job submission and enables you to use the submission software, drivers and control software that fit the way you work.

Image Logic

Image Logic technology is an intelligent, easy-to-use solution that helps you consistently turn imperfect originals into perfect copies and scans without any hassle.

ClearConnect

ClearConnect software suite consists of all the applications with the same user interface to manage the entire print workflow. Print and scan to the cloud from the desktop, mobile device, user panel, USB flash drive, or network with ClearConnect software suite. This helps users to save time and avoid costly misprints with easy shortcuts and live previews.

SMARTshield

SMARTshield is a fully integrated printing security technology that is embedded in the total print workflow. Protect confidential data with multiple security measures designed to ensure that all your security risks in every stage of the workflow process are addressed. This allows safe submission, safe storage, authorisation, hack prevention which secures you now and in the future.
SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATIONS

Printer

Printing Technology Radiant Fusing Technology
Productivity 10 D/A1 per minute
5 E/A0 per minute
Warm-Up Time Virtually no warm-up time
First Print Out Time <40 seconds
Resolution 600 x 1 200 dpi
Minimum Line Width 0.06mm

Scanning

Description Integrated Contact Image Sensor (CIS) Colour scanner with Image Logic technology
Resolution 600 x 600 dpi
Scan Speed 15.2 m/min Black & white scanning
10.1 m/min Copying
5.0 m/min Colour scanning
Scan Formats TIFF, PDF, PDF/A, JPEG, CALS, multi-page PDF, multi-page PDF/A and multi-page TIFF

Media

Media Rolls 4 or 6 roll, manual feed of cut sheet media
Cutsheet tray (optional)
Media Weight 60 – 110 g/m², film: 3.5 – 4.0mm
Roll Length Up to 200m
Roll Width 297 – 914mm
Minimum Printed Length 279mm
Maximum Printed Length 200m
Media Type Plain paper, Transparencies, Translucent, Recycled paper, Engineering Bond, Engineering Vellum, Coloured paper, Top Label Paper FSC, Red Label Paper PEFC, Black Label Paper PEFc, Green Label FSC, RecycledWhiteZero FSC, Transparent Paper, Transparent Paper FSC, Polyester film, Polyester film antistatic, Contrast Film, Clear Polyester Film, Double Matte Polyester Film, White Opaque Polyester Film, Translucent Engineering Bond, Recycled Engineering Bond, Colour Top, Recycled paper, Plain Paper recycled, Transparent, and Orika LPEX rice paper

Controller

Description High performance POWERsync controller with Windows 10 iOT LTSC, 64 bits
Processor Dual Core, Dual Thread Celeron® G4900 @3.10Ghz
Operating System Windows 7 / Windows 7 64 bits / Windows 8.1 / Windows 8.1 64 bits / Windows 10 / Windows 10 64 bits / Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bits / Windows Server 2012 64 bits / Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bits Mac OS 10.10 / Mac OS 10.11 / Mac OS 10.12 (PostScript 3 driver support only for Mac OS )

Environmental and Safety

Ozone Emissions <0.005 mg/m³
Certifications CE, TUV GS, CETECOM, Energy Star 3.0, FEMP, Rohs, CCC, VCCI
TüV GS, c-UL-US, CB, RCM, EPEAT, EAC, FCC
Class A, VCCI Class A

Optional Peripherals

Folder Express 3011
Folder Professional 6011/6013

Consumables

Toner Black Toner
Resources

Resources

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