Phaser Color Printer
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Phaser 350 Warranty
Users safety summary
Terms in manual Caution
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Contents
Printing Basics
Printing Beyond the Basics
Caring for Your Printer
Troubleshooting
Phaser 350 Color Printer
Using the Front Panel
Regulatory Information and Specifications
Index
Introduction
Overview
Introduction
Introduction
Information roadmap
Diskettes
World Wide Web
Getting Set Up
At a glance
Setting up the printer
What you get with your printer
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Optional accessories
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Touring the printer
Installing the optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
Registering the printer
Removing the packing material
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Unlocking the transit restraint
Installing the maintenance tray
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Loading ink sticks
Selecting a media tray configuration
Office paper, letterhead, and label printing
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
Connecting the printer
Printer ports
PhaserShare card optional
PhaserShare network and serial connections
Parallel connection
Parallel
Scsi peripheral devices
Selecting a Scsi hard disk
Turning on the printer
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As the printer warms up
Accessing the front panel menu
Front panel controls
Turning off the Startup
Selecting a language for the front panel
Help Pages overview
Printing Help Pages from the front panel
Installing the printer’s software
PC/Windows software
Installing printer description files
QuarkXPress
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
Interface Select Then do the following
LPTx
COMx
LPTx or COMx Printers-Network Connections
Seconds 10 minutes, to avoid unnecessary timeouts
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\ADOBEPS3\SETUP
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Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT
Locate the Microsoft Driver for Windows NT 3.51
Setting up installed options
Making default settings
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Getting Set Up
Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader
Windows
Installing ATM software
Installer overview
Macintosh software
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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PhaserPrint software for Unix demo
Workstation software
Downloadable printer utility files
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Printing Basics
Printing from different platforms
Using Windows printer drivers
Using the printer’s front panel
Printing from a PC
Media size
Media tray selection
Print-quality modes
Color correction
Using the Microsoft PostScript driver with Windows
Set the Timeout settings
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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Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver
Selecting printer options within an application Print
Setup
Using the Windows NT 3.51 PostScript driver
Printing from DOS
Using Macintosh printer drivers
Printing from a Macintosh
Print features quick reference Macintosh printer drivers
Using the Phaser 350 driver
Using the Adobe PSPrinter Driver
Using the Phaser 350 GX driver
Printing with a desktop printer
Using the Apple LaserWriter 8.x driver
Printing from a workstation
Overview
Unix workstations
Workstation Operating System
VMS workstations
For more information
Printing from specific applications
General hints and tips
Windows applications
Pantone
Macintosh applications
QuarkXPress Adobe Photoshop
Other applications
Selecting print features
Print features quick reference Printer’s front panel
Feature Front Panel Descriptions Print-quality modes
Print quality modes
Color correction mode Description
Color corrections
All about media
Media size and weight
Tray type Paper type Transparency Label media
Margins and image area
Mm 0.2 10.45 Mm 0.35 200 mm 283 mm
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
Fonts
Resident typefaces PostScript
Printer’s Extended Features option
Resident typefaces PCL5
Downloading fonts
Macintosh screen fonts
Using fonts with Windows
Printing font samplers
Printing a font sampler from a Macintosh
Printing a font sampler from a PC
Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu
Printing Beyond the Basics
Working with color
General guidelines
TekColor corrections making the best selection
Deciding which color correction to use
Printing objective or problem Color correction to use
Color correction descriptions
Turning off all color corrections
Printing the brightest colors and a truer blue
Simulating display screen colors
Closely match printing press colors
Commercial Press
Euroscale Press
Using the printer’s current color defaults
Using simple color conversions
Printing in gray scale
If your Phaser 350 printer is shared on a network
If you are using an unsupported driver
Special considerations
Application color corrections
Printing and using the color sampler charts
Printing color sampler charts
TektronixColor
Using the Quick Collate option
Phaser 350 Printer Quick Collate option
Quick Collate and the Check Print option
➊ 4 sets of pages 1 through
➋ 4 sets of pages 100 through
Previewing with Check Print
LaserWriter 8.x driver
Printing Beyond the Basics
Using Image Smoothing
Caring for Your Printer
Adding ink
Approximate time to complete 1 minute
Ink handling tips
Printer ink sticks
Emptying the waste tray
Approximate time to complete 3 minutes
When you open the front cover, the following message appears
Printhead and invalidates the printer warranty
Replacing the maintenance tray
Replace Maintenance Tray
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
Approximate time to complete 3-10 minutes
Black Cyan Magenta Yellow
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Approximate time to complete 3-6 minutes
CleanInk Smears Clean Test
Cleaning for jams and ink smears paper-feed rollers
Approximate time to complete 5 minutes
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9682-19
Cleaning for ink smears paper-exit path
Approximate time to complete 10 minutes
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90%
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Cleaning for upper media tray jams media-pick roller
Automatically cleaning the upper 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
Cleaning for lower tray jams paper-pick rollers
Approximate time to complete 1 minutes
Removing the maintenance tray
Moving Your Printer
Waiting 30 minutes before moving
Locking the transit restraint
Changing line voltage
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Type of service How to access Details
If you need help
503
Support@ColorPrinters.tek.com
Using the automated fax systems
Country Numbers
Front panel messages
Message Action
Front panel messages contd
Media Tray Empty
Problems and solutions
Symptom Solution
Image quality problems contd
SymptomSolution
Network Control Panel
Mode COM19600,N,8,1,P for serial port COM1
Introduction.html
Transmission Retry to
Printing and installation problems contd
Turn off Background Printing through the Chooser
Not have extra characters after the End-of-File character
Hint/Symptom Solution
Operational hints
Operational hints contd
All about media jams
Locating jammed media
Removing jammed media
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Improving print speed
All users
Macintosh users
Windows 3.1 users
Windows 95 users
Unix workstation users
If your file doesn’t print
General things to check for
Windows users general
If you are using PC/NFS
If you can’t print from Windows to an LPT port
Windows
Click Add Port
Check the printer’s language mode
PostScript printing errors
Macintosh users
Using a PostScript error handler
PC and workstation users
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
General
Printing Pantone Colors
Blue colors look too purple
Using the Tektronix halftone screens
PC and workstation users
Selecting page sizes in Windows applications
Windows
Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows
Sharing the printer on a network
Driver, utility files, and front panel interactions
If you are using PC/NFS and Windows
If the LaserWriter Utility does not work
Front panel indicators
Indicator Blinking Off Power
Error
Front panel overview
Front panel buttons
Two-line display
Enabling and disabling the front panel menu
Front panel menu map
Press
Printer Help Pages
Menu Map
Configuration Startup
Printing the help pages
Demonstration Pages RGB and Cmyk Color Samplers
Printer standby modes
Selecting the cleaning page source
Cleaning Page SourceUpper
Tektronix supplies the mark of quality
Customizing your printer
Ordering printer supplies
Order number Description
Order number Description Connectors and cable length
Interface cables and adapters
Extended Features upgrade
Optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
Z340LTA
Optional media trays
Benefits of multiple media trays
Memory upgrade
Font upgrade
600 x 300 dpi upgrade
PhaserShare network cards
Benefits of networking the printer
Phaser Copystation
PhaserPrint
PhaserSym
Scsi hard disk
Regulatory Information Specifications
Declaration of conformity
FCC Class B warning for 115 VAC equipment
Material Safety Data Sheets
Msds for ColorStix ink sticks
California Prop Not listed
Original preparation date August 23, 1994 R.C
Msds for silicone oil
Epcra Reportable Ingredients None California Prop Not listed
Original preparation date October 21, 1994 R.C
Specifications
Printer tilt
Safety and emissions
Power consumption
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