Phaser Color Printer
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Phaser 350 Warranty
Terms in manual Caution
Users safety summary
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Contents
Printing Basics
Caring for Your Printer
Printing Beyond the Basics
Phaser 350 Color Printer
Troubleshooting
Using the Front Panel
Index
Regulatory Information and Specifications
Overview
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Diskettes
Information roadmap
World Wide Web
At a glance
Getting Set Up
What you get with your printer
Setting up the printer
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Optional accessories
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Touring the printer
Registering the printer
Installing the optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
Removing the packing material
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Unlocking the transit restraint
Installing the maintenance tray
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Loading ink sticks
Office paper, letterhead, and label printing
Selecting a media tray configuration
Transparency printing
Loading media trays
Loading paper and transparency trays
Loading the Lower Paper Tray Assembly
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Insert the paper tray into the Lower Paper Tray Assembly
Printer ports
Connecting the printer
PhaserShare card optional
PhaserShare network and serial connections
Parallel
Parallel connection
Selecting a Scsi hard disk
Scsi peripheral devices
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Turning on the printer
As the printer warms up
Front panel controls
Accessing the front panel menu
Turning off the Startup
Selecting a language for the front panel
Printing Help Pages from the front panel
Help Pages overview
Installing the printer’s software
PC/Windows software
QuarkXPress
Installing printer description files
Aldus and Adobe applications
Setting up the Microsoft PostScript driver for Windows
CD-ROM
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Setting up the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows
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Setting up the Tektronix driver for Windows
LPTx
Interface Select Then do the following
COMx
LPTx or COMx Printers-Network Connections
Seconds 10 minutes, to avoid unnecessary timeouts
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Locate the Microsoft Driver for Windows NT 3.51
Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT
Setting up installed options
Making default settings
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Getting Set Up
Windows
Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader
Installing ATM software
Macintosh software
Installer overview
Using the Macintosh Installer
Setting up the Phaser 350 printer driver
Setting up the Adobe PSPrinter Driver
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Setting up the Phaser 350 GX driver
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Setting up the Apple LaserWriter 8.x driver
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Workstation software
PhaserPrint software for Unix demo
Downloadable printer utility files
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Printing from different platforms
Printing Basics
Using the printer’s front panel
Using Windows printer drivers
Printing from a PC
Media tray selection
Media size
Print-quality modes
Color correction
Set the Timeout settings
Using the Microsoft PostScript driver with Windows
Printing Basics
Using the AdobePS 4 driver with Windows
Printing Basics
Using the Tektronix Driver for Windows
Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows
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Selecting printer options within an application Print
Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver
Setup
Printing from DOS
Using the Windows NT 3.51 PostScript driver
Printing from a Macintosh
Using Macintosh printer drivers
Print features quick reference Macintosh printer drivers
Using the Phaser 350 driver
Using the Adobe PSPrinter Driver
Printing with a desktop printer
Using the Phaser 350 GX driver
Using the Apple LaserWriter 8.x driver
Overview
Printing from a workstation
Workstation Operating System
Unix workstations
For more information
VMS workstations
General hints and tips
Printing from specific applications
Windows applications
Pantone
QuarkXPress Adobe Photoshop
Macintosh applications
Other applications
Selecting print features
Feature Front Panel Descriptions Print-quality modes
Print features quick reference Printer’s front panel
Print quality modes
Color corrections
Color correction mode Description
All about media
Tray type Paper type Transparency Label media
Media size and weight
Mm 0.2 10.45 Mm 0.35 200 mm 283 mm
Margins and image area
Media and ink handling tips
Media trays
Establishing a default media tray optional
Printing letterhead
Printing transparencies
Transparency quality tips
Manual feed printing
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Printer languages PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5
Resident typefaces PostScript
Fonts
Printer’s Extended Features option
Downloading fonts
Resident typefaces PCL5
Macintosh screen fonts
Printing font samplers
Using fonts with Windows
Printing a font sampler from a Macintosh
Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu
Printing a font sampler from a PC
Printing Beyond the Basics
General guidelines
Working with color
TekColor corrections making the best selection
Deciding which color correction to use
Printing objective or problem Color correction to use
Turning off all color corrections
Color correction descriptions
Printing the brightest colors and a truer blue
Closely match printing press colors
Simulating display screen colors
Commercial Press
Euroscale Press
Using simple color conversions
Using the printer’s current color defaults
Printing in gray scale
If you are using an unsupported driver
If your Phaser 350 printer is shared on a network
Special considerations
Application color corrections
Printing color sampler charts
Printing and using the color sampler charts
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Phaser 350 Printer Quick Collate option
Using the Quick Collate option
➊ 4 sets of pages 1 through
Quick Collate and the Check Print option
➋ 4 sets of pages 100 through
LaserWriter 8.x driver
Previewing with Check Print
Printing Beyond the Basics
Using Image Smoothing
Caring for Your Printer
Approximate time to complete 1 minute
Adding ink
Printer ink sticks
Ink handling tips
Approximate time to complete 3 minutes
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
Cleaning pages
Cleaning the printer
Cleaning supplies
Reordering cleaning kit supplies
Using isopropyl alcohol
Problem type Solution
Identifying cleaning solutions
Approximate time to complete 3-10 minutes
Cleaning for light stripes printhead
Black Cyan Magenta Yellow
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Approximate time to complete 3-6 minutes
CleanInk Smears Clean Test
Approximate time to complete 5 minutes
Cleaning for jams and ink smears paper-feed rollers
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Approximate time to complete 10 minutes
Cleaning for ink smears paper-exit path
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90%
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Automatically cleaning the upper pick roller
Cleaning for upper media tray jams media-pick roller
Print Instructions? Continue Print
Cleaning
Remove Cleaning Tray
Manually cleaning the upper pick roller
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Replace the upper media tray in the printer
Approximate time to complete 1 minutes
Cleaning for lower tray jams paper-pick rollers
Moving Your Printer
Removing the maintenance tray
Waiting 30 minutes before moving
Locking the transit restraint
Changing line voltage
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If you need help
Type of service How to access Details
503
Support@ColorPrinters.tek.com
Country Numbers
Using the automated fax systems
Message Action
Front panel messages
Front panel messages contd
Media Tray Empty
Symptom Solution
Problems and solutions
Image quality problems contd
Network Control Panel
SymptomSolution
Introduction.html
Mode COM19600,N,8,1,P for serial port COM1
Transmission Retry to
Turn off Background Printing through the Chooser
Printing and installation problems contd
Not have extra characters after the End-of-File character
Operational hints
Hint/Symptom Solution
Operational hints contd
All about media jams
Locating jammed media
Removing jammed media
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All users
Improving print speed
Macintosh users
Windows 3.1 users
Unix workstation users
Windows 95 users
General things to check for
If your file doesn’t print
Windows users general
If you can’t print from Windows to an LPT port
If you are using PC/NFS
Windows
Click Add Port
Check the printer’s language mode
Macintosh users
PostScript printing errors
Using a PostScript error handler
PC and workstation users
Windows timeout From Windows
Fixing timeout problems in Windows
Mode LPT1,,P
Windows timeout From DOS and Windows
Printer’s timeout
General
Printed colors are not what you expected
Blue colors look too purple
Printing Pantone Colors
Using the Tektronix halftone screens
PC and workstation users
Selecting page sizes in Windows applications
Windows
Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows
Driver, utility files, and front panel interactions
Sharing the printer on a network
If the LaserWriter Utility does not work
If you are using PC/NFS and Windows
Indicator Blinking Off Power
Front panel indicators
Error
Front panel overview
Front panel buttons
Two-line display
Enabling and disabling the front panel menu
Press
Front panel menu map
Menu Map
Printer Help Pages
Configuration Startup
Demonstration Pages RGB and Cmyk Color Samplers
Printing the help pages
Printer standby modes
Selecting the cleaning page source
Cleaning Page SourceUpper
Customizing your printer
Tektronix supplies the mark of quality
Order number Description
Ordering printer supplies
Interface cables and adapters
Order number Description Connectors and cable length
Extended Features upgrade
Z340LTA
Optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
Benefits of multiple media trays
Optional media trays
Font upgrade
Memory upgrade
600 x 300 dpi upgrade
Benefits of networking the printer
PhaserShare network cards
PhaserPrint
Phaser Copystation
Scsi hard disk
PhaserSym
Declaration of conformity
Regulatory Information Specifications
FCC Class B warning for 115 VAC equipment
Material Safety Data Sheets
Msds for ColorStix ink sticks
Original preparation date August 23, 1994 R.C
California Prop Not listed
Msds for silicone oil
Original preparation date October 21, 1994 R.C
Epcra Reportable Ingredients None California Prop Not listed
Printer tilt
Specifications
Power consumption
Safety and emissions
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