Color StyleWriter2400
User’s Guide
K Apple Computer, Inc
Contents
1 Setting Up Your Printer
3 Tips on Paper, Quality, Speed, and Cost
2 Using Your Printer
4 Maintaining Your Printer
Troubleshooting
Using Fonts With the Color StyleWriter 2400 Printer
Index
Technical Information
FCC statement
Communications regulation information
Radio and television interference
VCCI statement
DOC statement
Communications Regulation Information
1 Setting Up Your Printer
Main features of the Color StyleWriter
Important safety instructions
Watch for these situations, and if one occurs pull the plug
Unpacking the printer
3 Close the printer’s cover
System requirements
Plugging in the printer
First, insert the
Turning the printer on and off
To turn the printer on and off, press this button
This light blinks
This light glows
Installing the ink cartridge
1 Open the printer by pulling down its front cover
3 Raise the bright blue lever on the carrier
8 Slide the ink cartridge straight into its place in the printer
7 Peel the orange tape off the print head
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9 Lower the lever to secure the ink cartridge in place
Setting Up Your Printer
10 Close the printer’s front cover
Some Macintosh computers have a combined serial port with two icons
Connecting the printer to your Macintosh
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Loading paper into the sheet feeder
1 Open the printer cover 2 Adjust the internal paper selector
3 Close the printer cover
4 Load a stack of U.S. letter-size or A4 paper into the sheet feeder
Do not stack paper above this line
Make sure the external paper selector is next to the « icon
Checking the print nozzles
Installing your printer software
If necessary, open the disk icon
More information about the Installer program
Special information for PowerBook owners
Telling your computer to use the Color StyleWriter
What’s next?
2 Using Your Printer
Loading the sheet feeder
the guide is too tight
Insert envelopes this way. Make sure the flap is smoothed flat
Don’t stack paper above this line
Wait while the carrier moves to the center position
Print material
Maximum
Special instructions
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Defining the page setup
Printing a document
Adjusting color options
Color printing quirks
Printing while you use your computer
Checking your printer’s progress
3 When you finish, click the close box
Sharing your printer with other users
Then click Setup
In the sharing setup dialog box, make the changes you want
1 Select Chooser from the Apple K menu
Note You can keep a log even if your printer is not shared
Printing on a shared Color StyleWriter
Second, if the network has zones, click one to select it
Connecting a Color StyleWriter 2400 to a LocalTalk network
Type a new name, then click Rename or press Return
Choosing print materials
3 Tips on Paper, Quality, Speed, and Cost
Plain paper
Glossy paper
Premium coated paper
Back-print film
Quality
Transparencies
Speed
Cost
4 Maintaining Your Printer
Replacing ink tanks in the four-color ink cartridge
When to change ink tanks
How to change ink tanks
1 Turn on the printer 2 Open the printer’s front cover
3 Remove and discard the old ink tank
4 Remove the new ink tank from its packaging
5 Remove the plastic cap from the ink tank
7 Close the printer cover
Don’t let anything touch the openings. The ink
When to replace the black-only ink cartridge
When to replace the four-color cartridge
How to find ink cartridges
Replacing the ink cartridge
How to replace the ink cartridge
6 Remove the bright orange cap from the cartridge’s print head
7 Peel the orange tape off the print head
After you snap it off, dispose of the cap
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Now you can open any document you want and print it as usual
8 Slide the cartridge into its place in the printer
10 Close the printer cover
Maintaining Your Printer
Storing the ink cartridge you aren’t using
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Cleaning the outside of the printer
Cleaning the inside of the printer
5 Troubleshooting
Installation is unsuccessful
Safety precautions
The Chooser doesn’t show the Color SW 2400 icon
Removing items from your Fonts folder
Using the Custom Installer
2 To start the Installer program, double-click its icon
4 In the Installer dialog box, choose Custom Install
5 In the Custom Install dialog box, click the first checkbox
The Macintosh doesn’t recognize the Color StyleWriter
Text appears in the Geneva font or prints jagged
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Paper is jammed
Paper or envelopes feed improperly
See the previous section, “Paper Is Jammed.”
The lights indicate a problem
The Color StyleWriter 2400 won’t print a particular document
The printer seems slow
Images print poorly
Messages appear on your computer screen
Colors skip or streak at the bottom of the page
The image is too light or too dark
Ink smears when rubbed
Pages leave the printer smeared, blurred, or smudged
Text lines up in columns on the screen but not when it prints
Printing appears on only part of the paper
A page prints off center
Colors don’t look right on the printed page
Unwanted horizontal white lines or stripes appear
Cleaning the print head
Printing the test page
The image prints wavy or distorted
Stains appear on printed pages
Ink tanks and cartridges run out of ink too quickly
General specifications
Appendix A Technical Information
Replacement ink tanks for four-color ink cartridge
Ink cartridges
Power consumption
Operating environment
Storage environment
Input electrical requirements
Kinds of fonts
Appendix B
Using Fonts With the Color StyleWriter 2400 Printer
Bitmapped fonts
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PostScript fonts
Using Fonts With the Color StyleWriter 2400 Printer
TrueType fonts
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QuickDraw GX imaging technology
How TrueType fonts work with other kinds of fonts
TrueType and bitmapped fonts
Keeping two font versions available
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How the Macintosh looks for fonts
TrueType and PostScript fonts
Where fonts are stored
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Using Fonts With the Color StyleWriter 2400 Printer
Suitcases
A font suitcase is a special folder for collections of fonts
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Styled fonts
Common questions about fonts
What does the term Apple classic fonts mean?
What’s a downloadable font?
What is font substitution?
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Appendix C Packing and Moving the Printer
3 Remove the power cord and serial cable
If you need to move your printer a long distance, follow these steps
1 Turn off the printer and unplug it
6 Push the paper support and output tray back inside the printer
5 Close the cover
7 Repack the printer in its original packing material
Appendix D Working With ColorSync
About ColorSync
ColorSync profiles and color-matching methods
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