Phaser Color Printer
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 Phaser 360 Printer Warranty
 Users safety summary
Terms in manual Caution
 Contents
 Installing Printer Software
Printing Basics
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 Troubleshooting
 Customer Support
Index
 About Your Printer
 Features of your new printer
Media letter or A4-size Copier paper
 On-line support
 An illustrated guide to your printer
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 Maintenance tray and waste liner
Printer parts and components
Consumables
ColorStix solid-ink sticks
 Printer parts
Manual feed slot
Transit restraint
Back panel
 Options and accessories
Lower Paper Tray Assembly
High-capacity transparency tray
Tektronix transparency media
 About Your Printer
 Getting Set Up
Setting up the printer at a glance
 Phaser 360 Color Printer Quick Reference Guide
What you get with your printer
 Choosing a printer location
Removing the packing material
Registering the printer
 Installing the Lower Paper Tray Assembly optional
 Place the printer on top of the Lower Paper Tray Assembly
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 Unlocking the transit restraint
 Installing the maintenance tray
 Using both thumbs, push the tray in Þrmly until it latches
 Loading the ink sticks
For ordering information, see Printer supplies on
 Loading the media trays
Loading paper and transparency trays
 To load paper
 Set the switch on the side of the tray to Transparency
To load transparencies
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 Loading the optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
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 Connecting an external hard disk optional
 Connecting the printer
Printer ports
 Connecting to a network
 Connecting a PC or Unix workstation to the parallel port
Parallel
 Connecting to a Macintosh
Turning on the printer
 Front panel display and controls
 Letting the printer warm up
 Selecting a language for the front panel
Help Pages Menu
 Printing a Configuration
Menu Map Print
 Tips for optimum printing performance
 Installing Printer Software
Overview
 PC/Windows software
 Installing printer software for Windows
Easy Installation
Samplers
 Custom Installation
Use the default Destination Directory or click Browse
Drivers/PPDs
Printer Utilities
 Finish Installation Completed dialog box, click Finish
 Installing printer software for Windows NT
 Custom Installation
 Network printer server, and click Next
 Finish Installation Completed dialog box, click Finish
 Either Services for Macintosh AppleTalk or TCP/IP print
 Custom Installation
 Installation Completed dialog box, click Finish
 Tektronix Printer Driver
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 Click Continue in the PostScript Printer Driver Setup
Under Installed Printers , select your
Phaser 360 TekColor printer, click Connect
After Windows restarts, the Install PostScript Printer
 Install
Mac OS software
Easy
 Using the Mac OS installer
Select Easy Install or Custom Install
Easy Install Custom Install
Select Custom Install from
 Setting up the Phaser 360 printer driver
Phaser 360 Driver in the Custom Install window
 Setting up the Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver
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 Setting up the Phaser 360 GX driver
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 PhaserPrint for Unix software
Unix workstation software
Downloadable printer utility files
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 Printing Basics
 Print features overview
Selecting print features
 TekColor correction
Media tray selection
Check Print See
Image Smoothing See
 Adjusting print speed and resolution
Fast Color
Enhanced
 All about media
 Acceptable media sizes, types, and weight
Tray type Media type
 Margins and image area
Letter-size X 11 A4-size 210 x 297 mm
Mm 0.2 200 mm 10.45 283 mm Mm 0.35
 Media trays
 Media tray settings
 Changing the default media tray setting
Default setting
Changing to Upper and Lower settings
 Printing letterhead
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 Printing labels
 Printing transparencies
Printing transparencies from the transparency tray
 Printing transparencies from the standard paper tray
 Transparency quality tips
 When to use the manual-feed slot
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 Using Windows printer drivers
Using the printer’s front panel
Printing from a PC
Downloading utility files
 Media size
 Quick Collate
 Using the AdobePS 4 driver with Windows
Settings, then Printers
Details tab
Paper tab
 Graphics tab
Device Options tab
Graphics tab
Optional Lower Tray or Optional Hard Drive
 PostScript tab
 Using the Tektronix driver for Windows
Interface Select Then do the following
LPTx
LPTx or COMx Printers-Network Connections dialog box
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 Close
 If you are using PC/NFS
Network Settings
Print Net Jobs Direct box
 Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows
Features tab
Corrections, Print Quality modes, and Optional Lower Tray
 Job Control tab
 Using the Windows NT 3.51 PostScript driver
Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver
Setting up installed options
Phaser 360 printer, and select Properties in the menu
 Making default settings
Selecting a printers Default Document Properties
Device Settings sheet, locate Form To Tray Assignment
 Selecting printer options within an application Page Setup
Selecting printer options within an application Print
 Document Defaults Properties Advanced tab
Printing from MS-DOS
 Using Macintosh printer drivers
Printing from a Macintosh
 Media size Tray selection
 Select Image Smoothing
 Using the Phaser 360 printer driver
Select media size
Select printer-specific options
TekColor Options dialog box
 Using the Apple LaserWriter 8 printer driver
 Using the Phaser 360 GX printer driver
Printing with a desktop printer
Selecting printing options
 Printing from a Unix workstation
Overview
 Unix workstations
Workstation Operating System
 OpenVMS workstations
 Printing from specific applications
 Printing Beyond the Basics
 Adjusting the color of your prints
 TekColor correction descriptions
Automatic General all-purpose printing
Vivid Color Printing the brightest colors and a truer blue
 Simulate Display Simulating screen colors
Press options Matching printing press colors
 Use Printer Setting Using the printer’s current default
None Turning off all color corrections
Monochrome Printing in gray scale
 Printing and using the color sampler charts
Process Sampler
 Tips for working with color
General guidelines
 If your Phaser 360 printer is shared on a network
If you are using an unsupported driver
Special considerations
Application color corrections
 Using the Quick Collate option
 Previewing with Check Print
 Using Image Smoothing
Setting the Check Print timeout
 Printer languages
Working with fonts
Resident typefaces PostScript and PCL5
 Downloading fonts
 Using fonts with Windows
 Printing a list of fonts
Printing a font list from a Macintosh
Printing a font list from a PC
From the Utilities menu, choose Download PostScript File
 Improving print speed
All users
Macintosh and Windows users
 Windows 3.1 users
 Select Use PostScript Level 2 features
Windows 95 users
Unix workstation users
 Selecting page sizes in Windows applications
Windows
 Properties from the File menu
 Front panel indicators
Indicator Blinking Off
Front panel overview
 Two-line display
 Front panel buttons
 Enabling and disabling the front panel menu
Menus
 Front panel menu map
Press
 Printer Help Pages
Menu Map
Configuration
Startup
 Printing the Help Pages
Demonstration
RGB and Cmyk Color Samplers
 Printer standby modes
Normal standby
 Caring For Your Printer
 Moving or shipping your printer
 Remove and store the maintenance tray
 Lock the transit restraint
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 Adding ink
 Ink handling tips
 Emptying the waste liner
Waste Liner a Full Open Front Cover
 Waste Liner a Full Remove Tray B
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 Replacing the maintenance tray
 fluid if tipped. Never ship a partially used maintenance tray
 Using both thumbs, push the tray in Þrmly until it latches
 Cleaning the printer
Problem Cleaning procedure
If the printer has frequent media jams
 If prints have light stripes or smears
 Cleaning
Selecting the Cleaning Page source
 Cleaning Page Source Menu
 Cleaning supplies
 Using isopropyl alcohol
 Cleaning for ink smears and jams internal paper path
Approximate time to complete 3-6 minutes
 CleanLight Stripes Clean Test
 Cleaning for jams and ink smears paper-feed rollers
Approximate time to complete 5 minutes
 Open the front cover
 To clean the upper black rubber rollers
 To clean the upper white plastic rollers
 To clean the lower rubber paper-feed rollers
 To clean the lower white plastic rollers
 Cleaning for ink smears paper-exit path
Approximate time to complete 10 minutes
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 To clean the rubber exit rollers
 To clean the white plastic exit rollers
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 Cleaning for upper media tray jams media-pick roller
Automatically cleaning the media-pick roller
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 Cleaning
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 Manually cleaning the media-pick roller
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 To clean the top surface of the media-pick roller
 To clean the bottom of the media-pick roller
Scrub the bottom surface of the pick roller thoroughly
 Cleaning for lower tray jams paper-pick rollers
Approximate time to complete 1 minute
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 Troubleshooting
 Front panel error messages
Message Action
 Front panel messages contd
 Upper Media Tray
 Troubleshooting quick reference
Symptom Solution
 Image Quality Problems
Printing to Off
 Print using color option
Print Options dialog box, select Color/Grayscale
 Transmission Retry to
Turn off Background Printing through the Chooser
 Printing and installation problems contd
 SymptomSolution
Displays Processing
 Network problems Macintosh
 Light stripes on prints cleaning the printhead
Approximate time to complete 10 minutes
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 Media jams and misfeeds
Preventing media jams
 Locating jammed media
 Clearing a media jam
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 Ink smears
 If your file doesn’t print
General things to check for
Macintosh users
 Windows users general
Details tab
 If you are using PC/NFS
If you can’t print from Windows to an LPT port
 Properties
Click Add Port
 Checking the printer’s language mode
 PostScript printing errors
Mac OS users
Windows 3.1 users
Windows 95 users
 Using a PostScript error handler
 Fixing timeout problems in Windows
Windows timeout From Windows
 Windows timeout From DOS and Windows
Mode LPT1,,P
 Printer’s timeout
 Printed colors are not what you expected
 Printing Pantone Colors
Blue colors look too purple
 Troubleshooting
 Prints do not reflect your settings
Sharing the printer on a network
If the Apple Printer Utility does not work
 Receiving email update notices
On-line support
 Customer Support Centers
 Getting information by fax
Country Numbers
 Customer Support
 Supplies, Accessories Expanding Your Printing System
Customizing your printer
 Printer supplies
Supplies Order number Description
 PhaserShare network cards
Description Order number
 Lower Paper Tray Assembly 625-sheet capacity
Paper and transparency trays
Description Order number High-capacity transparency tray
 Memory upgrade
Tektronix external hard disk
 Additional software Unix and VMSPhaserPrint for Unix
 Description Connectors and cable length
Interface cables and adapters
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 Regulatory Information Specifications
Declaration of conformity
 Regulatory Information and Specifications
Environmental phenomena Test specification Basic standard
 Material Safety Data Sheets
FCC Class B warning for 115 VAC equipment
 Msds for ColorStix ink sticks
 California Prop Not listed
Original preparation date March 10, 1994 RC
 Msds for silicone oil drum fluid
 Stability Stable
Original preparation date October 21, 1994 RC
 Specifications
Printer tilt
 11-9
 Safety and emissions
Certified EN60950
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