Phaser Color Printer
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Phaser 340 Warranty
Users safety summary
Terms in manual Caution
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Contents
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Printing
Caring for Your Printer
Troubleshooting
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Front Panel
Technical Notes
Moving Your Printer
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Regulatory Information Index
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Getting Set Up
At a glance
Getting Set Up
Checking the inventory
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Optional accessories
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Touring the printer
Registering the printer
Quick-Start Installation guide
Setting up the printer
Removing the packing material
Installing the optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
Installing the optional Phaser Copystation
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Unlocking the transit restraint
Installing the maintenance tray
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Close the front cover
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Loading ink sticks
Office paper, letterhead, and label stock printing
Selecting a media tray configuration
Transparency printing
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Loading media trays
Loading paper and transparency trays
Loading the Lower Paper Tray Assembly
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Printer ports
Connecting the printer
Scsi standard
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PhaserShare network and serial connections
Scsi connections
Parallel connection
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Parallel
Turning on the printer
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As the printer warms up
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Turning off the Startup
Accessing the front panel menu
Front panel controls
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Selecting a language for the front panel
Help Pages Overview
Installing the printer’s software
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PC software
TK340172.PPD
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PC Software for Microsoft Windows
Getting Set Up
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PC Software for Microsoft Windows
Diskette Asetup
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Getting Set Up
PC Updating the driver software for Windows NT
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Place all files at the top root level of the new diskette
Stfplatform =
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From the Printer menu, select Remove Printer
PC DOS and setting up ports
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Macintosh software
PPD files for drivers and applications installs the following
Using the installer to load software
LaserWriter 8.x setup
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Getting Set Up
If the LaserWriter 8.x driver is not installed
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Not Installed, as appropriate
Phaser 340 GX driver
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Workstation users
DEC OpenVMS AXP
Home
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Installing optional fonts
What next?
Printing
Which platform?
Printing from Windows
Printing
Printing from Windows 3.1 and Windows NT
Printing from a PC DOS
Printing Reference
Printing from a Macintosh
Printing from a Unix or VMS workstation
Printing from specific applications
Selecting print features
Print quality modes
Selecting print quality modes from the front panel
Color correction mode Description
Color correction
Selecting TekColor corrections from the front panel
Color sampler charts
All about media
Media trays
Establishing a default media tray optional
Paper Tray Assembly is connected to the printer
Media size
Media weight and thickness
Tray type Paper type Transparency Label media
Paper grain
Margins and image area
Mm 0.2 10.45 Mm 0.35 200 mm 283 mm
Image orientation
Media and ink handling tips
Printing letterhead
Printing transparencies
Transparency quality tips
Manual feed printing
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Fonts
Resident typefaces PostScript
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Resident typefaces PCL5
Downloading Macintosh and TrueType fonts
Installing Macintosh screen fonts
Printer languages PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5
Printing hints
Application hints
Tektronix supplies and software
Getting the best results
Caring for Your Printer
Overview
Adding ink
Caring for Your Printer
Ink handling tips
Printer ink sticks
Emptying the waste tray
When you open the front cover, the following message appears
Printhead and invalidates the printer warranty
Replacing the maintenance tray
Replace Maintenance Tray
All about media jams
Locating jammed media
Removing jammed media
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Cleaning the printer
Cleaning pages
Cleaning supplies
Reordering cleaning kit supplies
Using isopropyl alcohol
Identifying cleaning solutions
Problem type Solution
Cleaning for light stripes printhead
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Cleaning for ink smears internal paper path
Warming Up Cancel
Cleaning for ink smears paper feed rollers
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Cleaning Update
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Cleaning for ink smears paper exit path
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Cleaning Update
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Cleaning for media tray jams media pick rollers
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Cleaning
Remove Cleaning Tray
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Cleaning Update Manually Cleaning Rollers
Manually cleaning the upper pick roller
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Replace the upper media tray in the printer
Cleaning for lower tray jams paper-pick rollers
Approximate time to complete 1 minutes
Phaser 340 ColorStix solid ink sticks in the printer
Tektronix supplies the mark of quality
Ordering printer supplies
Order number Description
Supplies and Accessories
Printer supplies and accessories contd
Order number Description Connectors and cable length
Interface cables and adapters
Supplies and Accessories
Printer service
Tektronix Bulletin Board Service
If you need help
Customer Support Hotline
Online services
Troubleshooting
Ftp ftp.tek.com
Using the automated fax systems
Country Numbers
Your area code When Country Country code Fax number finished
Press #
Front panel messages
Message Action
JamOpen Front Cover
MessageAction
Waiting For Manual
Problems and solutions
Symptom Solution
Image quality problems contd
Printing in the Chooser set to Off
SymptomSolution
Image prints in black-and-white instead of color
Network problems
Transmission Retry to
Mode COM19600,N,8,1,P for serial port COM1
Turn off Background Printing through the Chooser
Ctrl-D. See the Phaser 340 Drivers and Utilities
Hint/Symptom Solution
Operational hints
Hint/SymptomSolution
Operational hints contd
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Front Panel
Front panel overview
Front panel buttons
Front Panel
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Two-line display
Power Error
Front panel indicators
Indicator Blinking Off Power
Enabling and disabling the front panel menu
Front panel menu map
Press
Technical Notes
Printing Help Pages
Printing the front panel menu map
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Technical Notes
Printing the configuration
Technical Notes a
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Printing the startup
Enabling and disabling the startup
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Printing the demonstration pages
Printer standby modes
Changing the Energy Star timeout
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Selecting the cleaning page source
Parallel port signal descriptions
Parallel port
Parallel port signal descriptions contd
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Specifications
Printer tilt
Width 40 cm 15.75 Weight 32 kg 70 lbs
Safety and emissions
Height 33 cm 13 Depth
Customizing your printer
Extended features upgrade
Serial number What to order
Optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
Expanding Your Printing System
Benefits of multiple media trays
Optional media trays
Expanding Your Printing System B
Memory upgrades
Benefits of upgrading memory
Font upgrade
600 x 300 dpi upgrade
PhaserShare network cards
Benefits of networking the printer
PhaserPrint
Phaser Copystation
PhaserSym
Adding a hard disk for font storage
Connecting one disk
Only one disk can contain a Sys/Start file
Connecting multiple disks
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Removing the maintenance tray
Moving Your Printer
Locking the transit restraint
Moving Your Printer
Moving Your Printer C
Changing line voltage
Regulatory Information
Declaration of conformity
FCC Class B warning for 115 VAC equipment
Regulatory Information
Material Safety Data Sheets
Msds for ColorStix ink sticks
Section I Product identification
Section II Information on ingredients
Section III Hazards identification
Section IV First aid measures
Section V Firefighting measures
Section VI Accidental release measures
Section Viii Exposure control-personal protection
Section IX Physical and chemical properties
Section X Stability and reactivity
Section XI Toxicological information
Section Xiii Disposal considerations
Section XIV Transport information
Section XV Regulatory information
Section XVI Other information
Silicone fluid found in maintenance tray
Msds for silicone oil
Section V Fire fighting measures
Section Viii Exposure control personal protection
Section XI Ecological information
Section X Toxicological information
Section XII Disposal considerations
Epcra Reportable Ingredients None California Prop Not listed
Index
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Sys/Start file
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