Phaser 240 Color Printer
Page
 Phaser 240 Warranty
 Users safety summary
 Contents
 Printing
 Supplies
Caring for Your Printer
 Troubleshooting
Front and Rear Panels
Technical Notes
 Regulatory Information Index
Moving Your Printer
 Phaser 240 Color Printer
 Introduction
 Introduction
 Connecting the printer
Setting up the printer
Installing 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
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 Removing the packing material from inside the printer
 Install the transfer roll
 Adding paper or transparencies
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 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
 Interface Select
LPT1 or LPT2
Network button
 DOS
 Macintosh users
 Installing the Phaser 240 driver
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 Installing the Phaser 240 GX driver
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 Workstation users
 Parallel port setup
Setting up PC ports DOS
 What next?
Turning on and off the startup
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 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
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 Cleaning the transfer roll sensor pad
Cleaning the printer every 5,000 prints
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 Cleaning the drum
 Cleaning the exit rollers
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 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 trays
Lower Tray
Auto Select
 Different ways of selecting media trays
 Selecting print quality
High Resolution
Standard
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
 Using color in presentations
Color design guidelines
Text 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
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 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
 Printing and using the CMYK, RGB, and HSB color charts
Macintosh users
Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu
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 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
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 PC and workstation users
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 Using Fonts
 Helvetica Narrow Bold Oblique
Printer fonts
 Macintosh fonts
Using Macintosh screen fonts
 If you are using System Software
Installing the decompressed fonts
If 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 Service
Getting 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 problems
Macintosh 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
 If your file doesn’t print
General things to check for
If 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
 Fixing timeout problems in Windows
From Windows
From DOS
 General
Printed colors are not what you expected
Printing 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
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 System requirements
Using Phaser 240 GX Driver
 Installing the Phaser 240 GX printer driver
 Creating a desktop printer
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 Setting up unique desktop printers
Using a desktop printer
 If you are using GX-aware applications
If you are using non-GX-aware applications
Printing with a desktop printer
 Control printing
Using the Printing menu
 Designating a default desktop printer
From the Printing menu, select Set Default Printer
Controlling 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
 Testing the printer’s language mode
HP-GL mode
PostScript mode
 CTRL-D
Setting default HP-GL pen colors
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 Driver, see Macintosh printer driver
 Quality modes, see print quality modes QuickDraw GX
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