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