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Welco me ix 1Setting Up Your Pr in te r 1
2Printing 23
3Tips on Paper, Quality, Speed, and Cost 49
4Maintaining Your Printer 55
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Communications regulation information
FCC statement
Radio and television interference
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Welc ome
Main features of the Color StyleWriter 2500
Changes to the printing software that affect other printers
System requirements
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Important safety in structions
Watch f or th ese situations, and if one occurs pull the plug!
Unpacking the printer
1Remove everything from the shipping box, but leave the ink cartridge in its package.
3Close the printers cover.
2Remove the tape and packing material from the inside and outside of the printer.
Power Ma cintosh us ers and Virtual Memory
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Tur ni ng th e printer on and off
Saving energy
Installing th e ink cartridge
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Connecting the printer to your Macintosh
Loading paper into the sheet feeder
4Load a stack of U.S. letter-size or A4 paper into the sheet feeder.
Installing your printer software
Step-by-step installation instructions
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Installation troubleshooting
More information about the Installer program
Telling yo u r computer to use th e Color StyleWriter 2500
Special information for PowerBook owners
Printing a document to make s ure every things working
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Checking the print nozzles
Whats next?
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Planning docum ents with th e Color StyleWriter 2500 in mind
Loading the she et feeder
Its important to adjust the selector before loading the new material into the sheet feeder.
3Load the paper or other materials. IMPORTANT
Dont mix envelopes with paper in the feeder.
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Here are details about the kinds of materials you can use in your Color StyleWriter 2500 printer.
Notes about envelopes
Printing a document
Quick instructions for printing standard documents
Detailed instructions for printing other documents
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4Choose Print from the File menu and make adjustments in the dialog box that opens.
IMPORTANT
Make sure the Paper Type pop-up menu accurately indicates what you installed in the sheet feeder.
Desktop printing
Adjusting color o ptions
Color printing quirks
Creating special effects on the Color StyleWriter 2500
Enlarging or reducing the printed image
Printing a watermark on each page of your document
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Printing 2 or 4 mini pages on each sheet of paper
Selecting a halftoning method
Switching between printers
Drag the document you want to print to a desktop printer icon
Select the printer by using its desktop printer icon
Select the printer by using th e Chooser
Creating, throwing away, and manipulating desktop printer icons
Determining the status of a printer by lo oking at it s icon
Printing while you use your computer
Monitoring and controlling background printing
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Sharing your printer with other users
To share the printer with other nonQuickDraw GX users, follow these steps:
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1Select Chooser from the Apple (
) menu. 2In the Chooser dialog box, do the following:
3In the Setup dialog box, make the changes you want.
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Printing on a shared Color StyleWriter 2500
Connecting a Color StyleWriter 2500 to a LocalTalk or EtherTalk network
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Choosing print materials
Plain paper
Premium coated paper
Premium Plus Coa ted Paper
Glossy paper
Back-print film
Tra ns pa re nc ie s
Quality
Speed
Cost
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Replacing ink tanks in the fou r-color ink c artridge
When to change ink tanks
How to change ink tanks
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Replacing the ink cartridge
When to replace the four-color cartridge
When to replace the optional black-only ink cartridge
How to find ink cartridges
How to replace the ink cartridge
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Storing the ink cartridge you arent using
Cleaning the outside of the printer
Cleaning the inside of t he printer
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Safety precautions
The Chooser doesnt show the Color SW 2500 icon
Installation is unsuccessful
Removing items from your Fonts folder to solve installation problems
Using the C u stom Installer to solve installation problems
The computer crashes while attempting to print
The computer doesnt recognize the Color StyleWriter 2500
Desktop printer icon problems
A PowerBook has trouble pr inting to the Color StyleWriter 2500
The lights indicate a problem
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More than one piece of paper passes through the printer at a time
Paper or envelopes feed improperly
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The Color StyleWriter 2500 wont print a particular document
The printer acts as if its working, but nothing is printe d on the page
Messages appear on your computer screen
Memory is low
Documents did not print as expected
Tex t ap pears in the Geneva font or prints jagged
Tex t pr ints , but pictures do not
Page breaks ch an ge unexpectedly
A page prints off center
Tex t lines up in columns on the screen but not when it prints
Everythi n g prints backwards
There are watermark problems
Print quality is p oor
Colors skip or streak at the bottom of the page
The image is too light or too dark
Thin lines fade or break up
The ink smears when rubbed
Pages leave the printer smeared, blurred, or smudged
Printing appears on only part of the paper
Colors dont look right on the printed page
Unwanted horizontal white lines or stripes appear
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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 Tec hn ic al Information
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Apple part numb ers
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Kinds of fonts
Appendix B Using Fonts With the Color StyleWriter 2500
Tru eTy pe fonts
Bitmapped fonts
PostScript fonts
QuickDraw GX imaging technology
How TrueType fonts work with other kinds of fonts
Tru eTy pe and bitmapped fonts
Tru e Type and PostScript fonts
How the Macintosh looks fo r fonts
Where fonts are stor e d
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Styled fonts
Common questions about fonts
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Appendix C Font List
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The problem that ColorSync solves
Appendix D Work ing Wit h ColorSync
About ColorSync
How ColorSync works
Using ColorS yn c
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Telling yo u r computer to use th e Color StyleWriter 2500 with QuickDraw GX
Appendix E Printing with QuickDraw GX
3In the Chooser dialog box, click items to select them.
Defining the page setup
portrait
landscape)
In the expanded dialog box, you can select a specific printer.
3When youve made your choices, click Format (or OK in a program thats not GX-savvy).
Your document is now set up for printing.
Printing a document
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Adjusting quality options
Cleaning the print head
A printing shortcut
If you choose not to use QuickDraw GX printing
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Appendix F Removing the Desktop Printing Software
4In the Installer dialog box, choose Custom Remove.
5In the Custom Remove dialog box, click the Desktop Printing Software checkbox.
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Monitoring and controlling print requests without desktop printers
3When you finish, click the PrintMonitor close box.
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Index
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