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Tektronix user manual Phaser 240 Color Printer

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Troubleshooting Install Color sampler chart ﬁles PostScript printing errors Connecting the printer Warranty Resetting the printer Setting up the printer Using the Print command JobTimeOut 0 to

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Phaser™ 240 Color Printer

First printing February 1995 070-9238-00

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Contents

Phaser 240 Color Printer Page Phaser 240 Warranty Users safety summary Contents Printing Supplies Caring for Your Printer Front and Rear Panels TroubleshootingTechnical Notes Regulatory Information Index Moving Your Printer Phaser 240 Color Printer Introduction Introduction Connecting the printer Setting up the printerInstalling a driver on your computer Setting up computer ports What you get with your printer Setting up the printer RollTransfer KitCleaning Printer options Installing the optional Lower Tray Assembly 9238-03 Removing the packing material from inside the printer Install the transfer roll Adding paper or transparencies 10Phaser 240 Color Printer 9238-10 12Phaser 240 Color Printer Installing options Printer ports Connecting the printer LocalTalk connection Connecting the printer to a single computer using LocalTalk Parallel connection Ethernet connection Connecting the power and turning on the printer Front panel at power-up Rear panel at power-up Startup When the printer is ready for operation Phaser 240 drivers and utilities diskettes Installing a driver on your computer Microsoft Windows PC users Getting Set Up LPT1 or LPT2 Interface SelectNetwork button DOS Macintosh users Installing the Phaser 240 driver 30Phaser 240 Color Printer Installing the Phaser 240 GX driver 32Phaser 240 Color Printer Workstation users Parallel port setup Setting up PC ports DOS What next? Turning on and off the startup Getting Set Up 36Phaser 240 Color Printer Which computer? Printing Printing from a PC Windows Printing from a PC DOS Printing from a Macintosh Using the Phaser 240 driver Using the Phaser 240 GX driver Workstation Operating System Printing from a Unix or VMS workstation Printing Printing from speciﬁc applications Perforated paper and transparencies Margins and print area Non-perforated plain paper Recommended paper tray selections Using two paper trays Print modes Selecting driver features Color corrections Resident typefaces PostScript Fonts Downloading fonts Resident typefaces PCL5 Installing Macintosh screen fonts Printer languages PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5 Enabling and disabling automatic language switching Printing hints Why should I use perforated paper?Getting the largest printed picture How long does it take to make a print? Overview Importance of cleaning When to clean Cleaning kit Cleaning the thermal head and transfer roll guide Cleaning the printer with every transfer roll change Cleaning the paper-feed rollers Cleaning the paper-pick rollers 9238-26 9238-27 9238-28 Cleaning the transfer roll sensor pad Cleaning the printer every 5,000 prints 9238-30 Cleaning the drum Cleaning the exit rollers Caring for Your Printer 14Phaser 240 Color Printer Selecting Media Image Options Selecting media size Phaser 240 special paper sizes Letter-size media A4-size media Phaser 240 GX Macintosh driver Phaser 240 Macintosh driver based on LaserWriter Tektronix driver for Windows Upper Tray Selecting media traysLower Tray Auto Select Different ways of selecting media trays Selecting print quality High ResolutionStandard Enhanced Different ways of selecting print quality Selecting image orientation Phaser 240 Macintosh driver LaserWriter 7.1.2-based Orientation option is in the Setup dialog box Selecting media type TekColor Dynamic Correction Using Color General guidelines Working with color Color design guidelines Using color in presentationsText and font guidelines Using color corrections Raw Cmyk Raw RGB Color corrections table Different ways of selecting color corrections Using a Tektronix driver for selecting color corrections Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities Application color corrections Printing the brightest colors and a truer blue Turning off all color corrections Closely match printing press colors Simulating display screen colors Printing in gray scale Using the printer’s current color setting Use simple color conversions Color sampler chart ﬁles Printing the color sampler charts Illustration Before you print the CMYK, RGB, and HSB color charts Macintosh users Printing and using the CMYK, RGB, and HSB color chartsChoose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu 18Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities If you are printing from a Tektronix driver If you are not using a Tektronix driver PC color correction Utility ﬁle name PC and workstation users If you are printing from a Tektronix driver Color correction None Before printing the Pantone Color chart Select Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu Printing and using the Pantone Color chart 24Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities PC and workstation users 26Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities Using Fonts Helvetica Narrow Bold Oblique Printer fonts Macintosh fonts Using Macintosh screen fonts If you are using System Software Installing the decompressed fontsIf you are using System Software 7.0 and later Decompressing the fonts Printing a font sampler from the Macintosh Downloading fonts to the printer from a Macintosh PC fonts Using fonts with Windows Downloading fonts to the printer from a PC Printing a font sampler from a PC To access the BBS 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, call 503 Using the Tektronix Bulletin Board ServiceGetting help Reaching the Customer Support staff Use HAL in the U.S.A. and Canada Using the automated fax systems Country Number Use EuroHAL in Europe Press # Electronic mail requests Downloading Tektronix ﬁles from the Internet Opening the Read ME ﬁles on the Macintosh diskette Other electronic addresses and telephone numbers PostScript printing errors Solving PostScript printing problemsMacintosh users PC/Windows users To upgrade your software Random PostScript errors Using a PostScript error handler PC and workstation users All users Improving print speed Unix workstation users Windows users General things to check for If your ﬁle doesn’t printIf Background Printing is turned on, turn it off If you can’t print from Windows to an LPT port If you are using PC/NFS Check the printer’s language mode From Windows Fixing timeout problems in WindowsFrom DOS General Printed colors are not what you expectedPrinting Pantone Colors Blue colors look too purple Colors are printing incorrectly PC and workstation users Selecting page sizes in Windows applications Driver and utility ﬁle interactions Sharing the printer on a network LaserWriter Utility does not work Resetting the printer PC and workstation users If you have problems using the paper trays 26Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities System requirements Using Phaser 240 GX Driver Installing the Phaser 240 GX printer driver Creating a desktop printer 4Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities Setting up unique desktop printers Using a desktop printer If you are using non-GX-aware applications If you are using GX-aware applicationsPrinting with a desktop printer Control printing Using the Printing menu From the Printing menu, select Set Default Printer Designating a default desktop printerControlling input trays Select Extension Setup from the Printing menu Using printing extensions Selecting printing options Select Printer Utilities from the Printing menu Downloading printer utilities Utilities Where to ﬁnd details Select Send PostScript File from the Printing menu Download PostScript ﬁles About shared printers Setting up a shared printer Using a shared printer Printing from QuickDraw GX-aware applications Using the Page Setup command Setup options Print dialog box options Using the Print command Using the Paper Match printing extension Using the TekColor printing extension Printing from non-QuickDraw GX-aware applications Changing a desktop printer’s default selections Disabling QuickDraw GX Viewing printer status Modifying Printer Operations Choose Set Startup Page from the Utilities menu Enabling and disabling the startup Printing a startup Printing a conﬁguration PC and workstation users Setting the printer’s EtherTalk zone Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu PC and workstation users Using Different Printer Language Modes Setting PostScript and HP-GL job and wait timeouts ManualFeedTimeout 0 to JobTimeOut 0 to Changing the printer’s language mode Printing HP-GL ﬁles Printing PostScript ﬁles Printing PCL5 ﬁles HP-GL mode Testing the printer’s language modePostScript mode CTRL-D Setting default HP-GL pen colors 5 1.0 0.0 10Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities Index Index-2Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities Index-3 Index-4Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities Index-5 Driver, see Macintosh printer driver Quality modes, see print quality modes QuickDraw GX Index-8Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities Index-9 Index-10Phaser 240 Drivers and Utilities

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