Color StyleWriter
 Apple Computer, Inc
 Contents
 Printing
Choosing print materials Quality Speed Cost
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Index
 Communications regulation information
 Vcci statement
 Main features of the Color StyleWriter
Welcome
 Changes to the printing software that affect other printers
System requirements
 Setting Up Your Printer
Important safety instructions
 Watch for these situations, and if one occurs pull the plug
 Unpacking the printer
 Power Macintosh users and Virtual Memory
 Plugging in the printer
 Turning the printer on and off
Saving energy
 Installing the ink cartridge
 Raise the bright blue lever on the carrier
 Setting Up Your Printer
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 Connecting the printer to your Macintosh
 Loading paper into the sheet feeder
 Setting Up Your Printer
 Installing your printer software
Step-by-step installation instructions
 Welcome dialog box that appears, click Continue
 Installation troubleshooting
More information about the Installer program
 Telling your computer to use the Color StyleWriter
On most Macintosh computers, the Chooser looks like this
 Special information for PowerBook owners
PowerBook computers with one serial port
 Printing a document to make sure everything’s working
Dialog box opens
 Click here
 Green power light should be off
Checking the print nozzles
 What’s next?
 Printing
See Switching Between Printers, later in this chapter
Planning documents with the Color StyleWriter 2500 in mind
 Loading the sheet feeder
Important Don’t mix envelopes with paper in the feeder
 Wait while the carrier moves to the center position
 Print material Maximum Special instructions
 Quick instructions for printing standard documents
Printing a document
Print dialog box opens on your screen
 Detailed instructions for printing other documents
 Item in dialog box What you use it for
 When you use Plain or Coated paper
 Desktop printing
 Adjusting color options
To adjust the way colors are printed, follow these steps
 Color printing quirks
 Creating special effects on the Color StyleWriter
Enlarging or reducing the printed image
Printing a watermark on each page of your document
Another dialog box opens
 Click OK to return to the Page Setup dialog box
 Creating your own watermarks
 Printing 2 or 4 mini pages on each sheet of paper
 Selecting a halftoning method
Switching between printers
Print dialog box opens
 Select the printer by using its desktop printer icon
Select the printer by using the Chooser
 Determining the status of a printer by looking at its icon
Stopped icon indicates you have stopped the print queue
 Printing while you use your computer
Chooser opens
 Monitoring and controlling background printing
 Printing
 Sharing your printer with other users
 Setup dialog box, make the changes you want
 Click OK to close the Setup dialog box
 Printing on a shared Color StyleWriter
Make the following selections in the Chooser
 Type a new name, then Click Rename or press Return
 Choosing print materials
Tips on Paper, Quality, Speed, and Cost
Plain paper
 Premium Plus Coated Paper
Premium coated paper
Glossy paper
 Back-print film
Transparencies
 Quality
 Speed
Cost
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 Maintaining Your Printer
Replacing ink tanks in the four-color ink cartridge
 When to change ink tanks
How to change ink tanks
 Maintaining Your Printer
 When to replace the four-color cartridge
When to replace the optional black-only ink cartridge
How to find ink cartridges
Replacing the ink cartridge
 How to replace the ink cartridge
 Peel the orange tape off the print head
 Now you can open any document you want and print it as usual
 Storing the ink cartridge you aren’t using
 Cleaning the outside of the printer
Cleaning the inside of the printer
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 Troubleshooting
 Installation is unsuccessful
Safety precautions
Chooser doesn’t show the Color SW 2500 icon
 For more details about fonts, see Appendix B
 Using the Custom Installer to solve installation problems
If necessary, open the disk icon
 Installer restarts your Macintosh
Computer crashes while attempting to print
 Computer doesn’t recognize the Color StyleWriter
 Desktop printer icon problems
PowerBook has trouble printing to the Color StyleWriter
 Lights indicate a problem
 Printer seems slow
Paper is jammed
 Paper or envelopes feed improperly
Follow these steps
 See Paper Is Jammed, earlier in this chapter
 Color StyleWriter 2500 won’t print a particular document
Printer acts as if it’s working, but nothing is printed on
 Restart your computer before trying to print again
Messages appear on your computer screen
See the next section
 Symptoms that indicate a memory problem
Memory is low
 Documents did not print as expected
Text appears in the Geneva font or prints jagged
 Breaks change unexpectedly
Text prints, but pictures do not
Prints off center
 There are watermark problems
Everything prints backwards
 Print quality is poor
Colors skip or streak at the bottom
 Ink smears when rubbed
Image is too light or too dark
Thin lines fade or break up
Pages leave the printer smeared, blurred, or smudged
 Colors don’t look right on the printed
Printing appears on only part of the paper
Unwanted horizontal white lines or stripes appear
 Printer cleans the print head before printing your document
To clean the print head, follow these steps
Utilities dialog box opens
 Printing the test
To print the test page, follow these steps
 Image prints wavy or distorted
Stains appear on printed pages
 Ink tanks and cartridges run out of ink too quickly
 Appendix a Technical Information
General specifications
Thermal ink jet engine
 Apple System/Peripheral-8 cable
 Height 211 mm Width 365 mm Depth 234 mm
Approximately 3.2 kilograms 6.9 pounds
 Power consumption
Power requirements for AC power adapter
Operating environment
Storage environment
 Black ink tank M3330G/A Color ink tank M3329G/A
Apple part numbers
Apple System/Peripheral-8 cable M0197LL
 Color StyleWriter LocalTalk Module M4615ZM
 Appendix B Using Fonts With the Color StyleWriter
Kinds of fonts
 TrueType fonts
 Bitmapped fonts
 PostScript fonts
QuickDraw GX imaging technology
 How TrueType fonts work with other kinds of fonts
TrueType and bitmapped fonts
 TrueType and PostScript fonts
Keeping two font versions available
 How the Macintosh looks for fonts
 Where fonts are stored
 Suitcases
 Appendix B
 Styled fonts
 Common questions about fonts
Here are some questions that often come up about fonts
 What does the term Apple classic fonts mean?
 What is font substitution?
 Appendix C Font List
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 Problem that ColorSync solves
Appendix D Working With ColorSync
 About ColorSync
How ColorSync works
 Using ColorSync
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 Appendix E Printing with QuickDraw GX
 Chooser dialog box, click items to select them
 Defining the page setup
Also called landscape , click here
 Your document is now set up for printing
Expanded dialog box, you can select a specific printer
 To print a document, follow these steps
This pop-up menu
 Expanded dialog box, you can make additional choices
 Adjusting quality options
If necessary, click More Choices
 Cleaning the print head
Printing shortcut
 If you choose not to use QuickDraw GX printing
Message appears
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 Appendix F Removing the Desktop Printing Software
 Installer dialog box, choose Custom Remove
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 When you finish, click the PrintMonitor close box
 Appendix G Packing and Moving the Printer
 Appendix G
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