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Tektronix PHASER 380 manual Getting Set Up

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 Terms in manual Caution Users safety summaryPage Contents Printing Basics Viii Phaser 380 Color PrinterPage Printing Beyond the Basics Caring for Your Printer Xii Phaser 380 Color Printer Troubleshooting Xiii Regulatory Information and Specifications Supplies, Accessories, and Expanding Your PrinterIndex Overview Introduction Introduction Requires the printerÕs Extended Features option Diskettes Information roadmapWorld Wide Web At a glance Getting Set Up What you get with your printer Setting up the printer 9662-01 Optional accessories 9662-02 Touring the printer Removing the packing material Registering the printer Installing the optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly 9662-04 10Phaser 380 Color Printer Installing the maintenance tray 12Phaser 380 Color Printer Loading ink sticks Choosing media tray conﬁgurations Optional Lower Paper Tray AssemblyStandard media tray 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 Printer ports Connecting the printer PhaserShare card port optional Installing PhaserShare network cards PhaserShare network and serial connections Parallel connection Selecting a Scsi hard disk Scsi peripheral devices Turning on the printer Unlocking the transit restraint Front panel controls As the printer warms upTurning off the Startup Accessing the front panel menu Selecting a language for the front panel Printing Help Pages from the front panel Help Pages overview PC/Windows software Installer overview PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop Installing printer software for WindowPrinter Utilities Network Utilities Manufacturers/Printers dialog box, click Have Disk Installing printer software for Windows NT PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop Return to the Add Printer Wizard For Name of printer or print queue on that Tektronix Phaser 380 Extended Extended Features option 38Phaser 380 Color Printer PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop Available AppleTalk Printing Devices dialog For Name or address of server providing lpd, typeFor Name of printer or print queue on that server Installation Completed dialog box, click Finish Installing printer software for Windows Samplers 44Phaser 380 Color Printer If you selected the AdobePS 3 Driver for Windows 3.1 Click Continue in the PostScript Printer Driver SetupTektronix Driver for Windows 3.1 in the Custom Phaser 380 GX Driver Deciding which driver to installMacintosh software Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 recommended Using the Macintosh Installer Setting up the Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver Setting up the Phaser 380 printer driver Getting Set Up Setting up the Phaser 380 GX driver Getting Set Up Workstation software PhaserPrint software for UnixDownloadable printer utility ﬁles Printing Basics Using the printer’s front panel Using Windows printer driversPrinting from a PC Print features quick reference Windows printer drivers Graphics tab Using the AdobePS 4 and Microsoft drivers with Windows Click the Device Options tab to see printer-speciÞc options Interface Select Then do the following Using the Tektronix driver for WindowsLPTx COMx Printing Basics Printing Basics If you are using PC/NFS Set the Timeout settings Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows Printing Basics Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver Using the Windows NT 3.51 PostScript driver Making default settings Selecting printer options within an application Print Printing from DOS Printing from a Macintosh Using Macintosh printer drivers Media tray selection Color correctionQuick Collate Check Print Using the Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver Using the Phaser 380 printer driver Printing with a desktop printer Using the Phaser 380 GX driver Overview Printing from a workstationUnix workstations Workstation Operating System SGI RGB VMS workstations General hints and tips Printing from speciﬁc applicationsApplications tips QuarkXPress Pantone Adobe PhotoshopOther applications Selecting print features Media size Feature Front Panel Descriptions Print-quality modes Print speed Print quality modes Color corrections Color correction mode Description All about media Media sizes Media size Dimensions 9662-73 Manual feed sizes Input method Grade Weight Media weight Media size Image area Margins and image areaMm 0.2 Mm 0.2 Mm 0.35 Paper and ink handling tips Standard tray Media trays 9662-64 Lower paper tray Establishing a default media tray optional Printing on letterhead Printing transparencies Transparency quality tips Manual-feed printing Portrait Landscape Sec Duplex printing Printer languages PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5 Resident typefaces PostScript Fonts Printer’s Extended Features option Printing Basics 48Phaser 380 Color Printer Printing Beyond the Basics General guidelines Working with color FujiProof Toyo 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 descriptionsPrinting the brightest colors and a truer blue Simulating display screen colors Closely match printing press colors Printing in gray scale Using the printer’s current color defaults If you are using an unsupported driver If your Phaser 380 printer is shared on a networkSpecial considerations Application color corrections Cmyk sampler chart Printing and using the color sampler chartsRGB sampler chart HSB sampler chart Printer-speciﬁc Pantone Colors Methods of printing Pantone Colors Pantone Colors from swatch books Phaser 380 Printer Quick Collate option Using the Quick Collate option ➊ 4 sets of pages 1 through Quick Collate and the Check Print option➋ 4 sets of pages 100 through Previewing with Check Print Printer Driver Defaults dialog box availableTektronix driver for Windows 16Phaser 380 Color Printer Using Image Smoothing Printing the Color Control Strip 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 liner a When you open the front cover, the following message appears Printhead and invalidates the printer warranty Approximate time to complete 22 minutes Replacing the maintenance tray B Install New Tray B 9662-29 Approximate time to complete 2 minutes Replacing the media tray separator pad Remove any media loaded in the tray and turn the tray over Remove and discard the old separator pad Cleaning pages Cleaning the printer Reordering cleaning kit supplies Cleaning supplies Using isopropyl alcohol Problem type Solution Identifying cleaning procedures Approximate time to complete 3-10 minutes Cleaning for light stripes printhead 9662-36 Caring for Your Printer Approximate time to complete 5 minutes Cleaning for upper tray jams media pick roller 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 Approximate time to complete 10 minutes Cleaning for ink smears paper-exit path 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 Waiting 45 minutes before moving Moving your printer Removing the maintenance tray B Locking the transit restraint Changing line voltage If you need help Type of service contd How to access contd Details contd Receiving email update notices Country Numbers Using the automated fax systems Message Explanation/Action Front panel messages Front panel messages contd JamRemove Upper Waiting For Manual Symptom Solution Problems and solutions Image quality problems SymptomSolution Image quality problems contd Image prints in black-and-white instead of color Network Control Panel Network problems Transmission Retry to Mode COM19600,N,8,1,P for serial port COM1 Turn off Background Printing through the Chooser Operational hints Hint/Symptom Solution Operational hints contd All about media jams Locating jammed media Removing jammed media 9662-51 General things to check for If your ﬁle doesn’t printMacintosh users Windows 3.1 users Windows users generalWindows 95 users If you can’t print from Windows to an LPT port If you are using PC/NFSWindows Click Add Port Check the printer’s language mode Macintosh users PostScript printing errors Using a PostScript error handler Windows timeout From Windows Fixing timeout problems in Windows Printer’s timeout Windows timeout From DOS and Windows 30Phaser 380 Color Printer General Printed colors are not what you expected Blue colors look too purple Printing Pantone Colors From the Utilities menu, choose Download PostScript File Using the Tektronix halftone screens PC and workstation users Selecting page sizes in Windows applications 36Phaser 380 Color Printer 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 Troubleshooting 40Phaser 380 Color Printer Front panel overview Front panel indicators Front panel buttons Two-line display Enabling and disabling the front panel menu Press Front panel menu map Menu Map Printer Help PagesConﬁguration Startup Demonstration RGB and Cmyk Color Samplers Printer standby modes Selecting the cleaning page source Using the Front Panel 10Phaser 380 Color Printer 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 Printer Station recommended Lower Paper Tray Assembly recommendedMedia tray Font upgrade Memory upgrade600 x 300 dpi upgrade Total memory Upgrade from 16 Mbytes Upgrade from 48 Mbytes Beneﬁts of networking the printer PhaserShare network cards recommended Scsi hard disk Phaser Copystation PhaserSym PhaserPrint for Unix softwarePage Declaration of conformity Regulatory Information SpecificationsChapter 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 Speciﬁcations Fast Color Standard Enhanced Mode Power consumption Safety and emissionsPage Index-1 Index Index-2Phaser 380 Color Printer Index-3 Index-4Phaser 380 Color Printer Index-5 Index-6Phaser 380 Color Printer Index-7 PC/NFS Index-8Phaser 380 Color Printer Index-9 Index-10Phaser 380 Color Printer

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