Important safety instructions
Setting Up Your Printer
 Watch for these situations, and if one occurs pull the plug
 Unpacking the printer
 Power Macintosh users and Virtual Memory
 Plugging in the printer
 Saving energy
Turning the printer on and off
 Installing the ink cartridge
 Raise the bright blue lever on the carrier
 Setting Up Your Printer
 Chapter
 Connecting the printer to your Macintosh
 Loading paper into the sheet feeder
 Setting Up Your Printer
 Step-by-step installation instructions
Installing your printer software
 Welcome dialog box that appears, click Continue
 More information about the Installer program
Installation troubleshooting
 On most Macintosh computers, the Chooser looks like this
Telling your computer to use the Color StyleWriter
 PowerBook computers with one serial port
Special information for PowerBook owners
 Dialog box opens
Printing a document to make sure everything’s working
 Click here
 Checking the print nozzles
Green power light should be off
 What’s next?
 Printing
See Switching Between Printers, later in this chapter
Planning documents with the Color StyleWriter 2500 in mind
 Important Don’t mix envelopes with paper in the feeder
Loading the sheet 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
 To adjust the way colors are printed, follow these steps
Adjusting color options
 Color printing quirks
 Enlarging or reducing the printed image
Creating special effects on the Color StyleWriter
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 the Chooser
Select the printer by using its desktop printer icon
 Stopped icon indicates you have stopped the print queue
Determining the status of a printer by looking at its icon
 Chooser opens
Printing while you use your computer
 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
 Make the following selections in the Chooser
Printing on a shared Color StyleWriter
 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
 Transparencies
Back-print film
 Quality
 Cost
Speed
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 Replacing ink tanks in the four-color ink cartridge
Maintaining Your Printer
 How to change ink tanks
When to change ink tanks
 Maintaining Your Printer
 When to replace the optional 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
 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 inside of the printer
Cleaning the outside 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
 If necessary, open the disk icon
Using the Custom Installer to solve installation problems
 Computer crashes while attempting to print
Installer restarts your Macintosh
 Computer doesn’t recognize the Color StyleWriter
 PowerBook has trouble printing to the Color StyleWriter
Desktop printer icon problems
 Lights indicate a problem
 Paper is jammed
Printer seems slow
 Follow these steps
Paper or envelopes feed improperly
 See Paper Is Jammed, earlier in this chapter
 Printer acts as if it’s working, but nothing is printed on
Color StyleWriter 2500 won’t print a particular document
 Restart your computer before trying to print again
Messages appear on your computer screen
See the next section
 Memory is low
Symptoms that indicate a memory problem
 Text appears in the Geneva font or prints jagged
Documents did not print as expected
 Breaks change unexpectedly
Text prints, but pictures do not
Prints off center
 Everything prints backwards
There are watermark problems
 Colors skip or streak at the bottom
Print quality is poor
 Image is too light or too dark
Ink smears when rubbed
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
 To print the test page, follow these steps
Printing the test
 Stains appear on printed pages
Image prints wavy or distorted
 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
 Approximately 3.2 kilograms 6.9 pounds
Height 211 mm Width 365 mm Depth 234 mm
 Power requirements for AC power adapter
Power consumption
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
 Kinds of fonts
Appendix B Using Fonts With the Color StyleWriter
 TrueType fonts
 Bitmapped fonts
 QuickDraw GX imaging technology
PostScript fonts
 TrueType and bitmapped fonts
How TrueType fonts work with other kinds of fonts
 Keeping two font versions available
TrueType and PostScript fonts
 How the Macintosh looks for fonts
 Where fonts are stored
 Suitcases
 Appendix B
 Styled fonts
 Here are some questions that often come up about fonts
Common questions about fonts
 What does the term Apple classic fonts mean?
 What is font substitution?
 Appendix C Font List
 Total
 Appendix D Working With ColorSync
Problem that ColorSync solves
 How ColorSync works
About ColorSync
 Using ColorSync
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 Appendix E Printing with QuickDraw GX
 Chooser dialog box, click items to select them
 Also called landscape , click here
Defining the page setup
 Expanded dialog box, you can select a specific printer
Your document is now set up for printing
 This pop-up menu
To print a document, follow these steps
 Expanded dialog box, you can make additional choices
 If necessary, click More Choices
Adjusting quality options
 Printing shortcut
Cleaning the print head
 Message appears
If you choose not to use QuickDraw GX printing
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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
 Index
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Printing
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Index
 Communications regulation information
 Vcci statement
 Welcome
Main features of the Color StyleWriter
 System requirements
Changes to the printing software that affect other printers