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Printing the color charts
Contents
Main
Tips on using this guide
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PRINTING FROM DOS 393
PRINTING FROM UNIX AND VMS W
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USING THE PRINTERS PARALLEL PORT 505
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Features
Some of the Phaser 600 printers features include:
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Information roadmap
Tektronix provides information on the Phaser 600 printer in several ways:
README
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At a glance
Phaser 600 Quick Start Instructions
Quick Reference Guide
Quick Start Instructions
Setting up the printer
What you get with your printer
Accessories box contents
Phaser 600 Color Printer Quick Reference Guide
Phaser 600 User Manual
Optional Phaser Copystation accessory
Registering your printer
Unpacking instructions
Phaser 600 Color Printer Quick-Start Instructions
Quick Start Installation
Moving the printer to its operating location
inside
Removing adhesive tape and cable tie
Removing the transit restraint
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Removing the shipping blocks
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Attaching the ink loader
Loading the ink
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Attaching the output bin
Attaching the Quick Reference Guide
Phaser 600 Quick Reference Guide
Connecting the printer
Printer ports
standard)
Phaser Copystation User Manual
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optional)
PhaserShare Network Cards and Software System Administrator Manual
Adjust the leveling legs and lock the wheels
Turning on the printer
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What happens at power-up
When the printer is ready for operation
Selecting a language for the front panel
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Installing the starter paper roll
Loading the paper roll
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inside
Feeding roll paper
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Overview for all PC and Macintosh platforms
PC/Windows software
PC/W INDOWS
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Which Windows driver to install?
PC/W INDOWS
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Custom Install or Easy Install?
Installing printer software for Windows
Installing printer software for Windows (cont'd.)
).
Installing printer software for Windows (cont'd.)
and
README.TXT
Setting up the drivers for Windows 95
ADOBEPS4
Setting up the drivers for Windows 95 (cont'd.)
Setting up the drivers for Windows 3.1
Setting up the drivers for Windows 3.1 (cont'd.)
Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51
Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 (cont'd.)
PRINTER.INF
Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 (cont'd.)
PSCRPTUI.DLL
PSCRIPT.DLL
Recommended:
Setting up the printer on a network for Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51
Do you want to capture this AppleTalk Printing Device?
Setting up the printer on a network for Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 (cont'd.)
Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT 4.0
Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT 4.0 (cont'd.)
Setting up the printer on a network for Windows NT 4.0
Recommended:
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Macintosh software
Which Macintosh driver to install?
MACINTOSH SOFTWARE
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Custom Install or Easy Install?
Installing printer software for Macintosh
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Setting up the Phaser 600 printer driver
Setting up the Adobe PSPrinter driver
Setting up the Phaser 600 GX driver
Setting up the Apple LaserWriter 8 driver
PhaserTools
LaserWriter 8.x Installer
Setting up the Apple LaserWriter 8 driver (cont'd.)
Workstation software
Downloadable printer utility les
.bin
PhaserPrint software for UNIX (demo)
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Printing overview
Printing from a PC
Print features quick reference: Windows printer drivers
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Using the Microsoft PostScript driver with Windows 95
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Using the AdobePS 4 driver with Windows 95
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Using the Tektronix printer driver for Windows 3.1
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Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows 3.1
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Using the Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 PostScript driver
Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver
Selecting printer options within an application: Print
Selecting printer options within an application: Page Setup
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Selecting printer options from the Control Panel
Printers
Printing from a Macintosh
Using Macintosh printer drivers
Using the printers front panel
Print features quick reference: Macintosh printer drivers
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Using the Phaser 600 driver
Using the Adobe PSPrinter driver
Using the Apple LaserWriter 8.x driver
Using the Phaser 600 GX driver
Printing with a desktop printer
Selecting printing options
Macintosh Guide
Printing from a workstation
Overview
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UNIX workstations
UNIXDEMO
VMS workstations
For more information
Printing from specic applications
General hints and tips
Selecting print features
Methods of selection
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Print quality modes
Color corrections
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All about media
Selecting media by size
Margins and print area
Cut-sheet media
Roll media
Page size, print area, and margins
at least
Roll media sizes
Cut-sheet media sizes
Margins
U.S. Cut sheet media sizes
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Metric Cut sheet media sizes
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Media attributes
Media types
Media thickness range
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Image orientation
Page Rotation
Portrait orientation
Landscape orientation
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Manual Feed: using cut-sheet media
closed
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Image manipulation
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Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL
PhaserShare Network Cards and Software System Administrator Manual
Fonts
Resident typefaces (PostScript)
Printers Extended Features option
Downloading fonts
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Macintosh screen fonts
Fonts
System Folder
Using fonts with Windows
WIN.INI
Printing font samplers
Printing a font sampler from a Macintosh
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Printing a font sampler from a PC
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Working with color
General guidelines
Color corrections making the best selection
TekColor corrections
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PhaserMatch
Deciding which 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
SWOP Press
Commercial Press
Euroscale Press
SNAP Press
Custom Proles
PhaserMatch User Manual
Printing in gray scale
Using the printers current color defaults
Using simple color conversions
RAWCMYK.PS
RAWRGB.PS
Raw RGB Colors
Raw CMYK Colors
Using the rendering intents
Special considerations
If your Phaser 600 printer is shared on a network
Application color corrections
If you are using an unsupported driver
Printing and using the color sampler charts
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Special printing features
Fusing Mode / Media Fusing
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Advance Media
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Cut Media
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Mirror Print
Page Centering
Page Rotation
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Image Smoothing
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Fast Preview
Print Preview
thumbnail
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Timeout
Color Control Strip
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Reprint
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Phaser Copystation
Requirements and suggested memory conguration
Connecting the Copystation
Phaser Copystation User Manual
Setting the print quantity
Scaling images from the Copystation
Automatic scaling
Custom scaling
Getting the best results
automatically scales the output to t the selected media size
scaling percentage
default page size
upper right corner.
Media size interactions
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Printing A-size images on A-size media
Laminating your Phaser 600 prints
Tips on laminating prints
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Available color charts
Setting up the printer
If you are using manual feed media
If you are using roll media
Page Rotation 90
ROTATE90.PS
Printing from a Macintosh
Installing the les
Samplers
Adobe PSPrinter
Important preparations
Printing from a supported driver
Printing from a non-supported driver
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Printing the color charts
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Printing from a PC
Installing the les
Important preparations
Printing from a supported driver
Printing from a non-supported driver
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Printing the color charts
TekColor Corrections
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Select your computer type
Using ColorSync on a Macintosh
Adobe PSPrinter Driver
LaserWriter 8.x Driver
ColorSync Prole
Printer Descriptions
PPD
TKPH6001.PPD
TKP600P1.PPD
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8Click Print in the Print dialog box.
Using host color correction in Windows 95
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Pantone overview
Installing Pantone les
Installing the Macintosh les
Installing the PC les
Pantone Files
Acrobat Reader
Using the PANTONE Color templates
Using the Macintosh templates
Adobe Illustrator 3.0 (Macintosh)
Adobe Illustrator 5.0 (Macintosh)
Aldus FreeHand 4.0 (Macintosh)
Aldus PageMaker 5.0 (Macintosh)
Adobe PageMaker 6.0 (Macintosh)
Using the PC library les
Adobe Illustrator 3.0 and 4.02 (PC)
TEK_600.AI
Color
Aldus PageMaker 5.0 (PC)
CorelDRAW! (PC)
Printing the PANTONE Color sampler chart
Phaser 600.pdf
PANT600.PS
Phaser 600.ps
Printing individual pages from Acrobat
Phaser 600.pdf
Printing from Acrobat (Macintosh)
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Printing from Acrobat (PC)
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Printing the entire chart
PANT600.PS
Phaser 600.ps
Printing the entire chart (Macintosh)
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Printing the entire chart (PC)
Printing Pantone Colors from an application
Printing Pantone Colors from a Macintosh application
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Printing PANTONE Colors from a PC/Windows application
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Compatibility
Macintosh
Windows
Installing the PhaserPrint plug-in for Photoshop
Installing the plug-in for Macintosh
Acquire/Export
Plug-ins
Installing the plug-in for Windows
PHOTOSHP
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Using the plug-in
Starting the PhaserPrint plug-in
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Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box
Click on the following topics for more information:
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Print using (Macintosh)
ASCII base-85
Binary.
Print using (Windows)
ASCII base-85
Binary.
Printer model
Media size
Color correction
not available.
option is also available.
color corrections:
Quality
Fusing
Advance media
Cut media
Page rotation
Rendering intent
Compress image data
Fast preview
Manual feed
Print preview
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Mirror print
Center page
No margins
Image smoothing
Color control strip
Stylized representation of the page
Scaling an image
Landscape orientation
Center images
Replicate images
Image size
Image separation
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Number of images
Image layout
Media size
Show color preview of image
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System requirements
Installing the Phaser 600 GX printer driver
Phaser 600 GX
Creating a desktop printer
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Setting up unique desktop printers
Printing with a desktop printer
Using the Printing menu
Macintosh Guide
Control printing
Designating a default desktop printer
Using printing extensions
Selecting printing options
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Downloading printer utilities
Printer utilities
Download PostScript les
Setting up a shared printer
Using a shared printer
Printing from QuickDraw GX applications
Using the Page Setup dialog box
Using the Print dialog box
Using the TekColor printing extension
Printing from non-QuickDraw GX applications
Changing a desktop printers default selections
Viewing printer status
Disabling QuickDraw GX
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Setting up ports
Setting up the parallel port
AUTOEXEC.BAT
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Printing from DOS
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Using a non-Tektronix driver
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Printing from UNIX workstations
UNIXDEMO
Printing from VMS workstations
Using the printers software
Obtaining the PC utility les
Using the Phaser 600 printers CD-ROM
Using the utility les
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Mounting the PC/DOS diskette on a workstation
SGI IRIX versions 4.0.x and 5
msdosd
mediad
mediad
le system
Sun running Solaris 2.3
Automatic diskette mounting instructions
Manual diskette mounting instructions
/etc/vfstab
/dev/diskette - /pcfs pcfs -no-
Sun running SunOS 4.1.3
Extracting les from
unix.tar
Listing the contents of
unix.tar
Extracting the les
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Installing the utility les
Installing the Macintosh utility les from the printers CD-ROM
Installing the PC utility les
Downloading les from the Tektronix World Wide Web site
macintosh, pcs, or unix
600
Downloading les from the Tektronix ftp server
login name>
<Tektronix printer>
Downloading les to the printer
Downloading les from a Macintosh
Using the LaserWriter Utility to download les
LW_UTIL.SEA
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LaserWriter Utility
Using the
to perform other tasks
Downloading les from the Phaser 600 GX driver
Downloading les from a PC
Downloading les from Windows 3.1
Downloading les from Windows 95
Downloading les from DOS
Changing the printer's name
Changing the printers name from a Macintosh
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Changing the printer's name from a PC
PRNTNAME.PS
Resetting the printer
Reset Printer
Resetting the printer from a Macintosh
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Resetting the printer from a PC
Using the color rendering intents
Descriptions
Rendering Intent Absolute
matching colors exactly to the computers screen colors
exactly
Rendering Intent Relative
Rendering Intent Saturation
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Selecting
From the PhaserPrint plug-in for Photoshop
From a downloadable utility le
Enabling and disabling job pipelining
off
Enable/disable job pipelining from a Macintosh
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Enable/disable job pipelining from a PC
PIPE_ON.PS
PIPE_OFF.PS
Modifying the Advance Media default
ADVMEDIA.PS
Advance Media
Modifying Advance Media from a Macintosh
Advance Media
LaserWriter Utility
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Modifying Advance Media from a PC
ADVMEDIA.PS
Setting page offset
OFFSETXY.PS
Page Offset XY
Setting page offset from a Macintosh
Page Offset XY
LaserWriter Utility
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Setting page offset from a PC
OFFSETXY.PS
Adding Control-D characters to PC les
CTRLD.PS
ADDCTRLD.BAT
ADDCTRLD.BAT
CTRLD.PS
Conguring a printers serial port
before
Xon/Xoff
none
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Parameter values
Other utilities
Other printer utility les
The following utility les are described in other locations:
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SCSI peripheral devices
Phaser Copystation User Manual
Selecting a SCSI hard disk
For font storage
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Connecting a SCSI hard disk
Required items
Important guidelines
before
until each disk has a unique number
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Connecting one disk
Connecting multiple disks
end
Formatting a SCSI hard disk
erases all information already on the disk
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FRMTDISK.PS
Initializing a formatted SCSI hard disk
LaserWriter Utility
Initialize Printer Disks
INITDISK.PS
Enabling and disabling SysStart Job execution
SYSTART.PS
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Set SysStart Job
No SysStart Job
SYSTART.PS
NOSYSTRT.PS
Front panel
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Bi-directional status reporting
Printer
BIDIR.PS
UNIDIR.PS
Parallel port pin signals
This table shows the parallel ports connected pins; other pins are not connected.
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Installing the les
Setting PostScript and HP-GL job and wait timeouts
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4To change
to specify different timeouts, substitute new values for the following lines.
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Changing the printers language mode
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Printing PostScript les
Printing HP-GL les
Enabling automatic language selection
Testing printer language mode changes
Testing HP-GL mode
Testing PostScript mode
Setting default HP-GL pen colors
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Cleaning hints
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Quick cleaning
Feed rollers and paper guides
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Transport rollers
Removing the media roll
Cleaning the transport rollers
DOWN
Drum
Occasional cleaning
Back tension blade and paper clamp
Removing the media roll
Setting the front panel for cleaning access
Cleaning the back tension blade
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Cleaning the paper clamp
gentle
Clamp rollers
C
Fuser shuttle and exit rollers
Setting the front panel
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Exposing the fuser shuttle
DOWN
Removing the fuser components
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Cleaning the fuser shuttle
dry
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Cleaning the exit rollers
Inserting the fuser components
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Ink loader
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Cleaning the printhead
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Emptying the waste bin
Front panel displays Empty Waste Bin
gently
Before moving the printer
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Repacking and moving the printer
Before you begin
Cables and media
Ink loader
Clean-up
Repack the printer
Phaser 600 Repacking Instructions
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If you need help
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Downloading les from the Tektronix Color Printer Information Server
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Using the automated fax systems
Use HAL in the U.S.A. and Canada
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Use EuroHAL in Europe
tone dialer
1To use EuroHAL, dial one of the numbers listed in the following table.
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Front panel messages
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Symptoms and solutions
Diagnostic tools
Maintaining print quality
on
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LaserWriter 8 Pref
System Folder
Preferences
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downloaded to the printer
on
Print to the following port
PSCRIPT.PS
HPGL.PS
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Page
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Page
without
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before
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Printing hints
Getting the largest printed picture
Improving print speed
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Fastest print time
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Printing bitmapped images
All users
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Windows 3.1 users (using the Tektronix driver)
Windows 95 users
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PostScript printing errors
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Using a PostScript error handler
Using the error handler from the front panel
off
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Using the Macintosh error handler utility le
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Using the PC and workstation error handler utility le
TEKEHAND.PS
Fixing timeout problems in Windows
From Windows 3.1
From Windows 95
From DOS (and Windows 3.1)
Printed colors are not what you expected
In general
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Printing PANTONE Colors
Blue colors look too purple
Using the Tektronix halftone screens
Setscreen Off (SCRENOFF.PS)
sethalftone
setcolorscreen
setscreen
Using the Macintosh Setscreen utility le
Phaser 600 Utilities
Setscreen On
Setscreen Off
Using the PC/workstation Setscreen utility le
SCREENON.PS
SCRENOFF.PS
Selecting page sizes in Windows applications
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows
Getting printer conguration information
Sharing the printer on a network
Driver, utility les, and front panel interactions
for prints made from the driver
overrides
except
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If the LaserWriter Utility does not work (AppleTalk)
Media hints and tips
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Cutting roll media
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Using a 2-inch core media roll: removing the core adapter
empty
Hint
Replacing the core adapter
empty
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Startup page prints even though it is disabled
non-fatal
Clearing a media jam
At a glance
Overview
any
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Clearing a media jam
Page
4 Remove the jammed media.
OR
outside
Clearing an ink jam
If an ink stick falls over in the loader
If an ink stick doesnt drop completely
or
Removing the ink loader
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Front panel
Front panel overview
Front panel indicators
Front panel buttons
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Two-line display
previous
next
Printer information
Front panel menu map
Help Pages
Media Defaults
Printer Defaults
Serial Settings
Pause Menu
Network Settings
Utilities
Scale: 100%
Appears when optional PhaserShareTM card is installed. With Extended Features.
Pause menu
Pause Menu
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Help Pages overview
The printer has several Help Pages that you can print to learn more about the printer.
Printing the front panel menu map
Printing the menu map from the front panel
Printing the menu map with PhaserLink software
Printing the conguration page
Printing the conguration page from the front panel
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Conguration Page
Page
PRNTCNFG.PS
Printing the conguration page with PhaserLink software
Printing the startup page
Printing the startup page from the front panel
Printing the startup page with a downloadable utility le
Print Start Page
LaserWriter Utility
Print Start Page
Page
PRNTSTPG.PS
Printer
PRNTSTPG.PS
Printing the startup page with PhaserLink software
Enabling and disabling the startup page
Enabling and disabling the startup page from the front panel
Page
Enabling and disabling the startup page with a downloadable utility le
LaserWriter Utility
STARTPG.PS/NOSTRTPG.PS
Printer
NOSTRTPG.PS
STARTPG.PS
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Enabling and disabling front panel menus
Page
Menu Short /Menu Long
LaserWriter Utility
Menu Long
Menu Short
Page
MENUSHRT.PS/MENULONG.PS
Printer
MENULONG.PS
MENUSHRT.PS
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Tektronix Printer and Tektronix Supplies: Made For Each Other
system
Customizing your printer
Ordering printer supplies
Phaser 600 printer supplies (cont'd.)
Phaser 600 printer accessories
Ordering Interface cables and adapters
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Expanding your printing system
Upgrade kits
Extended Features upgrade
Page
Memory upgrade
Advantages of adding memory
PhaserShare network cards
Benets of networking the printer
Phaser Copystation
Phaser CopyStation User Manual
PhaserPrint
phaserpr.unx
PhaserSym
SCSI hard disk
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Canadian EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) regulatory standards
Declaration of conformity
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FCC Class B device
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Material Safety Data Sheets
MSDS for ink
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Specications
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Copyrights/Trademarks
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Users safety summary
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Symbols as marked on product:
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unix.tar
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Font Sampler
FONTS.PS
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Font Sampler
L
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FONTS.PS
LPT port
TEKEHAND.PS
Phaser 600 Quick Reference Guide
PRINTER.INF
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Quick Reference Guide
Quick-Start Instructions
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TEKEHAND.PS
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