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Tektronix PHASER 380 manual

Models: PHASER 380

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Troubleshooting Install Cmyk sampler chart Material Safety Data Sheets Making default settings Front panel indicators Connecting the printer Warranty Dimension Problem type Solution

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Contents

Phaser Color Printer Page Page Phaser 380 Warranty Users safety summary Terms in manual CautionPage Contents Viii Phaser 380 Color Printer Printing BasicsPage Printing Beyond the Basics Caring for Your Printer Troubleshooting Xii Phaser 380 Color Printer Xiii Index Supplies, Accessories, and Expanding Your PrinterRegulatory Information and Specifications Introduction Overview Introduction Requires the printerÕs Extended Features option World Wide Web Information roadmapDiskettes Getting Set Up At a glance Setting up the printer What you get with your printer 9662-01 Optional accessories 9662-02 Touring the printer Registering the printer Removing the packing material Installing the optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly 9662-04 10Phaser 380 Color Printer Installing the maintenance tray 12Phaser 380 Color Printer Loading ink sticks Standard media tray Optional Lower Paper Tray AssemblyChoosing media tray conﬁgurations Loading media trays Loading paper in the upper and lower trays Insert the media tray into the printer Loading transparencies in the media tray Getting Set Up Connecting the printer Printer ports PhaserShare card port optional PhaserShare network and serial connections Installing PhaserShare network cards Parallel connection Scsi peripheral devices Selecting a Scsi hard disk Turning on the printer Unlocking the transit restraint Turning off the Startup As the printer warms upFront panel controls Accessing the front panel menu Selecting a language for the front panel Help Pages overview Printing Help Pages from the front panel Installer overview PC/Windows software Printer Utilities Installing printer software for WindowPhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop Network Utilities Manufacturers/Printers dialog box, click Have Disk Installing printer software for Windows NT PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop For Name of printer or print queue on that Return to the Add Printer Wizard Tektronix Phaser 380 Extended Extended Features option 38Phaser 380 Color Printer PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop For Name of printer or print queue on that server For Name or address of server providing lpd, typeAvailable AppleTalk Printing Devices dialog Installation Completed dialog box, click Finish Installing printer software for Windows Samplers 44Phaser 380 Color Printer Tektronix Driver for Windows 3.1 in the Custom Click Continue in the PostScript Printer Driver SetupIf you selected the AdobePS 3 Driver for Windows 3.1 Macintosh software Deciding which driver to installPhaser 380 GX Driver Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 recommended Using the Macintosh Installer Setting up the Phaser 380 printer driver Setting up the Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver Getting Set Up Setting up the Phaser 380 GX driver Getting Set Up Downloadable printer utility ﬁles PhaserPrint software for UnixWorkstation software Printing Basics Printing from a PC Using Windows printer driversUsing the printer’s front panel Print features quick reference Windows printer drivers Using the AdobePS 4 and Microsoft drivers with Windows Graphics tab Click the Device Options tab to see printer-speciÞc options LPTx Using the Tektronix driver for WindowsInterface Select Then do the following COMx Printing Basics Printing Basics If you are using PC/NFS Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows Set the Timeout settings Printing Basics Using the Windows NT 3.51 PostScript driver Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver Making default settings Selecting printer options within an application Print Printing from DOS Using Macintosh printer drivers Printing from a Macintosh Quick Collate Color correctionMedia tray selection Check Print Using the Phaser 380 printer driver Using the Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver Using the Phaser 380 GX driver Printing with a desktop printer Unix workstations Printing from a workstationOverview Workstation Operating System VMS workstations SGI RGB Applications tips Printing from speciﬁc applicationsGeneral hints and tips QuarkXPress Other applications Adobe PhotoshopPantone Selecting print features Feature Front Panel Descriptions Print-quality modes Media size Print quality modes Print speed Color correction mode Description Color corrections All about media Media size Dimensions Media sizes 9662-73 Manual feed sizes Media weight Input method Grade Weight Mm 0.2 Margins and image areaMedia size Image area Mm 0.2 Mm 0.35 Paper and ink handling tips Media trays Standard tray 9662-64 Establishing a default media tray optional Lower paper tray Printing on letterhead Printing transparencies Transparency quality tips Manual-feed printing Portrait Landscape Sec Duplex printing Printer languages PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5 Fonts Resident typefaces PostScript Printer’s Extended Features option Printing Basics 48Phaser 380 Color Printer Printing Beyond the Basics Working with color General guidelines TekColor corrections making the best selection FujiProof Toyo 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 Simulating display screen colors Closely match printing press colors Using the printer’s current color defaults Printing in gray scale Special considerations If your Phaser 380 printer is shared on a networkIf you are using an unsupported driver Application color corrections RGB sampler chart Printing and using the color sampler chartsCmyk sampler chart HSB sampler chart Methods of printing Pantone Colors Printer-speciﬁc Pantone Colors Pantone Colors from swatch books Using the Quick Collate option Phaser 380 Printer Quick Collate option ➋ 4 sets of pages 100 through Quick Collate and the Check Print option➊ 4 sets of pages 1 through Tektronix driver for Windows Printer Driver Defaults dialog box availablePreviewing with Check Print 16Phaser 380 Color Printer Using Image Smoothing Printing the Color Control Strip Caring for Your Printer Adding ink Approximate time to complete 1 minute Ink handling tips Printer ink sticks Emptying the waste liner a 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 B Approximate time to complete 22 minutes Install New Tray B 9662-29 Replacing the media tray separator pad Approximate time to complete 2 minutes Remove any media loaded in the tray and turn the tray over Remove and discard the old separator pad Cleaning the printer Cleaning pages Cleaning supplies Reordering cleaning kit supplies Using isopropyl alcohol Identifying cleaning procedures Problem type Solution Cleaning for light stripes printhead Approximate time to complete 3-10 minutes 9662-36 Caring for Your Printer Cleaning for upper tray jams media pick roller Approximate time to complete 5 minutes AlcoholIsopropyl90% Cleaning 9662-48 Cleaning the upper pick roller manually 9662-29 9662-76 Replace the upper media tray in the printer Cleaning for jams and ink smears media-feed rollers Press the Clean button and the following message appears Following message appears 9662-77 Press Clean, the following message appears Caring for Your Printer Cleaning for lower tray jams paper pick roller AlcoholIsopropyl90% Remove the paper tray from the printer 9662-61 Cleaning the lower paper-pick roller manually Cleaning for lower tray jams paper-feed rollers Turn Lower Tray Rollers Clean Cancel Approximate time to complete 3-20 minutes CleanInk Smears Quick Extended Cleaning for ink smears paper-exit path Approximate time to complete 10 minutes CleanExit Rollers Clean Test 9662-79 9662-42 9662-43 Close the exit cover and the front cover Cleaning the maintenance tray blade optional 50Phaser 380 Color Printer 9662-71A 9662-72A Moving your printer Waiting 45 minutes before moving Removing the maintenance tray B Locking the transit restraint Changing line voltage If you need help Receiving email update notices Type of service contd How to access contd Details contd Using the automated fax systems Country Numbers Front panel messages Message Explanation/Action Front panel messages contd JamRemove Upper Waiting For Manual Problems and solutions Symptom Solution Image quality problems Image quality problems contd SymptomSolution Image prints in black-and-white instead of color Network problems Network Control Panel Mode COM19600,N,8,1,P for serial port COM1 Transmission Retry to Turn off Background Printing through the Chooser Hint/Symptom Solution Operational hints Operational hints contd All about media jams Locating jammed media Removing jammed media 9662-51 Macintosh users If your ﬁle doesn’t printGeneral things to check for Windows 95 users Windows users generalWindows 3.1 users 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 Fixing timeout problems in Windows Windows timeout From Windows Windows timeout From DOS and Windows Printer’s timeout 30Phaser 380 Color Printer Printed colors are not what you expected General Printing Pantone Colors Blue colors look too purple Using the Tektronix halftone screens From the Utilities menu, choose Download PostScript File PC and workstation users Selecting page sizes in Windows applications 36Phaser 380 Color Printer Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows Sharing the printer on a network Driver, utility ﬁles, and front panel interactions If the LaserWriter Utility does not work Troubleshooting 40Phaser 380 Color Printer Front panel indicators 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 Demonstration RGB and Cmyk Color Samplers Printer standby modes Selecting the cleaning page source Using the Front Panel 10Phaser 380 Color Printer 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 Media tray Lower Paper Tray Assembly recommendedPrinter Station recommended 600 x 300 dpi upgrade Memory upgradeFont upgrade Total memory Upgrade from 16 Mbytes Upgrade from 48 Mbytes PhaserShare network cards recommended Beneﬁts of networking the printer Phaser Copystation Scsi hard disk PhaserPrint for Unix software PhaserSymPage Regulatory Information SpecificationsChapter 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 Fast Color Standard Enhanced Mode Speciﬁcations Safety and emissions Power consumptionPage Index Index-1 Index-2Phaser 380 Color Printer Index-3 Index-4Phaser 380 Color Printer Index-5 Index-6Phaser 380 Color Printer PC/NFS Index-7 Index-8Phaser 380 Color Printer Index-9 Index-10Phaser 380 Color Printer

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