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Tektronix manual Caring for Your Printer 42Phaser 350 Color Printer

Models: Phaser 350

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Troubleshooting Install Printing color sampler charts Material Safety Data Sheets Making default settings Front panel indicators Connecting the printer Warranty Maintenance Problem type Solution

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Contents

Phaser Color Printer Page Page Phaser 350 Warranty Users safety summary Terms in manual CautionPage 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 World Wide Web Information roadmapDiskettes Getting Set Up At a glance Setting up the printer What you get with your printer 9682-01A Optional accessories 9101-70b Touring the printer Removing the packing material Installing the optional Lower Paper Tray AssemblyRegistering the printer 9101-57 9101-02 Unlocking the transit restraint Installing the maintenance tray 12Phaser 350 Color Printer Loading ink sticks Transparency printing Selecting a media tray conﬁgurationOfﬁce paper, letterhead, and label printing Loading media trays Loading paper and transparency trays Loading the Lower Paper Tray Assembly 18Phaser 350 Color Printer 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 115 As the printer warms up Turning off the Startup Accessing the front panel menuFront panel controls 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 36Phaser 350 Color Printer Setting up the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows 38Phaser 350 Color Printer Setting up the Tektronix driver for Windows COMx Interface Select Then do the followingLPTx LPTx or COMx Printers-Network Connections Seconds 10 minutes, to avoid unnecessary timeouts 42Phaser 350 Color Printer \ADOBEPS3\SETUP 44Phaser 350 Color Printer Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT Locate the Microsoft Driver for Windows NT 3.51 Setting up installed options Making default settings 48Phaser 350 Color Printer 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 56Phaser 350 Color Printer Setting up the Phaser 350 GX driver 58Phaser 350 Color Printer Setting up the Apple LaserWriter 8.x driver 60Phaser 350 Color Printer Downloadable printer utility ﬁles PhaserPrint software for Unix demoWorkstation software Getting Set Up 62Phaser 350 Color Printer Printing Basics Printing from different platforms Printing from a PC Using Windows printer driversUsing the printer’s front panel Print-quality modes Media sizeMedia tray selection 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 10Phaser 350 Color Printer 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 Windows applications Printing from speciﬁc applicationsGeneral hints and tips Pantone Other applications Macintosh applicationsQuarkXPress Adobe Photoshop 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 Sec Printer languages PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5 Fonts Resident typefaces PostScript Printer’s Extended Features option Resident typefaces PCL5 Downloading fonts Macintosh screen fonts Printing a font sampler from a Macintosh Using fonts with WindowsPrinting font samplers 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 Printing the brightest colors and a truer blue Color correction descriptionsTurning off all color corrections Commercial Press Simulating display screen colorsClosely match printing press colors Euroscale Press Printing in gray scale Using the printer’s current color defaultsUsing simple color conversions Special considerations If your Phaser 350 printer is shared on a networkIf you are using an unsupported driver 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 ➋ 4 sets of pages 100 through Quick Collate and the Check Print option➊ 4 sets of pages 1 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 16Phaser 350 Color Printer 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 9682-23 9682-12 9682-20 9682-13 9682-19 Cleaning for ink smears paper-exit path Approximate time to complete 10 minutes 9682-24 90% 9682-15 9682-16 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 9101-53 9682-25 Replace the upper media tray in the printer Cleaning for lower tray jams paper-pick rollers Approximate time to complete 1 minutes Waiting 30 minutes before moving Removing the maintenance trayMoving Your Printer Locking the transit restraint Changing line voltage Caring for Your Printer 42Phaser 350 Color Printer 503 Type of service How to access DetailsIf you need help 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 Transmission Retry to Mode COM19600,N,8,1,P for serial port COM1Introduction.html 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 9101-60 Macintosh users Improving print speedAll 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 Windows If you are using PC/NFSIf you can’t print from Windows to an LPT port 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 Error Front panel indicatorsIndicator Blinking Off Power Front panel overview Front panel buttons Two-line display Enabling and disabling the front panel menu Front panel menu map Press Conﬁguration Startup Printer Help PagesMenu Map 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 600 x 300 dpi upgrade Memory upgradeFont 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 consumptionPage Index Index-1 Index-2Phaser 350 Color Printer Index-3 Index-4Phaser 350 Color Printer Index-5 Index-6Phaser 350 Color Printer Index-7 Index-8Phaser 350 Color Printer Index-9 Index-10Phaser 350 Color Printer

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