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Tektronix Phaser 600 Installing Pantone les

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Installing Pantone ﬁles

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Main Tips on using this guide Page C ONTENTS P U ET P ASICS B P ASICS B THE EYOND : B P RINTING THE C OLOR S AMPLER C C OLOR M U SING PANTONE C OLOR F USING THE PHASERPRINT PLUG-IN FOR P U SING THE PHASER 600 GX D PRINTING FROM DOS 393 PRINTING FROM UNIX AND VMS W U SING P RINTER U U SING SCSI H ARD D USING THE PRINTERS PARALLEL PORT 505 USING DIFFERENT PRINTER LANGUAGE M C ARING FOR Y OUR P T U SING THE F RONT P O RDERING I R EGULATORY I I Page Features Some of the Phaser 600 printers features include: Page Page Page Information roadmap Tektronix provides information on the Phaser 600 printer in several ways: README Page 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 Page Page Removing the shipping blocks Page Attaching the ink loader Loading the ink Page Attaching the output bin Attaching the Quick Reference Guide Phaser 600 Quick Reference Guide Connecting the printer Printer ports standard) Phaser Copystation User Manual Page optional) PhaserShare Network Cards and Software System Administrator Manual Adjust the leveling legs and lock the wheels Turning on the printer Page What happens at power-up When the printer is ready for operation Selecting a language for the front panel Page Installing the starter paper roll Loading the paper roll Page inside Feeding roll paper Page Page Page Overview for all PC and Macintosh platforms PC/Windows software PC/W INDOWS 49 Which Windows driver to install? PC/W INDOWS 50 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: Page Recommended 1386 Macintosh software Which Macintosh driver to install? MACINTOSH SOFTWARE 71 Custom Install or Easy Install? Installing printer software for Macintosh I 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) Page Printing overview Printing from a PC Print features quick reference: Windows printer drivers Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Using the Microsoft PostScript driver with Windows 95 Page Page Page Using the AdobePS 4 driver with Windows 95 Page Page Page Using the Tektronix printer driver for Windows 3.1 Page Page Page Page Page Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows 3.1 Page Page 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 Page 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 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 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 Page UNIX workstations UNIXDEMO VMS workstations For more information Printing from specic applications General hints and tips Selecting print features Methods of selection Page Page Print quality modes Color corrections Page 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 Page Metric Cut sheet media sizes Page Media attributes Media types Media thickness range Page Image orientation Page Rotation Portrait orientation Landscape orientation Page Manual Feed: using cut-sheet media closed Page Image manipulation Page Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL PhaserShare Network Cards and Software System Administrator Manual Fonts Resident typefaces (PostScript) Printers Extended Features option Downloading fonts Page Macintosh screen fonts Fonts System Folder Using fonts with Windows WIN.INI Printing font samplers Printing a font sampler from a Macintosh Page Printing a font sampler from a PC Page Page Working with color General guidelines Color corrections making the best selection TekColor corrections Page 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 Page Special printing features Fusing Mode / Media Fusing Page Advance Media Page Cut Media Page Mirror Print Page Centering Page Rotation Page Image Smoothing Page Fast Preview Print Preview thumbnail Page Timeout Color Control Strip Page Reprint Page 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 Page Printing A-size images on A-size media Laminating your Phaser 600 prints Tips on laminating prints Page Page Page 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 Page Printing the color charts Page Page Page Printing from a PC Installing the les Important preparations Printing from a supported driver Printing from a non-supported driver Page Printing the color charts TekColor Corrections Page Page Page 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 Page 8Click Print in the Print dialog box. Using host color correction in Windows 95 Page Page Page 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) Page Page Printing from Acrobat (PC) Page Page Printing the entire chart PANT600.PS Phaser 600.ps Printing the entire chart (Macintosh) Page Printing the entire chart (PC) Printing Pantone Colors from an application Printing Pantone Colors from a Macintosh application Page Printing PANTONE Colors from a PC/Windows application Page Page Page 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 Page Using the plug-in Starting the PhaserPrint plug-in Page Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box Click on the following topics for more information: Page 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 Page 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 Page Number of images Image layout Media size Show color preview of image Page Page Page System requirements Installing the Phaser 600 GX printer driver Phaser 600 GX Creating a desktop printer Page 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 Page 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 Page Page Page Setting up ports Setting up the parallel port AUTOEXEC.BAT Page Printing from DOS Page Page Using a non-Tektronix driver Page Page Page 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 Page Page 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 Page Page 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 Page 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 Page Changing the printer's name from a PC PRNTNAME.PS Resetting the printer Reset Printer Resetting the printer from a Macintosh Page 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 Page 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 Page 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 Page 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 Page 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 8 2 9600 Page Parameter values Other utilities Other printer utility les The following utility les are described in other locations: Page Page SCSI peripheral devices Phaser Copystation User Manual Selecting a SCSI hard disk For font storage Page Connecting a SCSI hard disk Required items Important guidelines before until each disk has a unique number Page Page Connecting one disk Connecting multiple disks end Formatting a SCSI hard disk erases all information already on the disk Page Page FRMTDISK.PS Initializing a formatted SCSI hard disk LaserWriter Utility Initialize Printer Disks INITDISK.PS Enabling and disabling SysStart Job execution SYSTART.PS Page Set SysStart Job No SysStart Job SYSTART.PS NOSYSTRT.PS Front panel Page Page Page 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. Page Page Page Page Page Installing the les Setting PostScript and HP-GL job and wait timeouts Page Page 4To change to specify different timeouts, substitute new values for the following lines. Page Changing the printers language mode Page 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 Page Page Page Page Page Page Cleaning hints Page Quick cleaning Feed rollers and paper guides Page 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 Page Cleaning the paper clamp gentle Clamp rollers C Fuser shuttle and exit rollers Setting the front panel Page Exposing the fuser shuttle DOWN Removing the fuser components Page Cleaning the fuser shuttle dry Page Cleaning the exit rollers Inserting the fuser components Page Page Ink loader Page Page Cleaning the printhead Page Emptying the waste bin Front panel displays Empty Waste Bin gently Before moving the printer Page Repacking and moving the printer Before you begin Cables and media Ink loader Clean-up Repack the printer Phaser 600 Repacking Instructions Page Page If you need help Page Downloading les from the Tektronix Color Printer Information Server Page Using the automated fax systems Use HAL in the U.S.A. and Canada Page Use EuroHAL in Europe tone dialer 1To use EuroHAL, dial one of the numbers listed in the following table. Page Page Front panel messages Page Page Page Symptoms and solutions Diagnostic tools Maintaining print quality on Page Page Page Page LaserWriter 8 Pref System Folder Preferences Page downloaded to the printer on Print to the following port PSCRIPT.PS HPGL.PS Page Page Page Page without Page before Page Page Printing hints Getting the largest printed picture Improving print speed Page Fastest print time Page Printing bitmapped images All users Page Windows 3.1 users (using the Tektronix driver) Windows 95 users Page PostScript printing errors Page Using a PostScript error handler Using the error handler from the front panel off Page Using the Macintosh error handler utility le Page 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 Page 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 Page If the LaserWriter Utility does not work (AppleTalk) Media hints and tips Page Cutting roll media Page Page Page Page Using a 2-inch core media roll: removing the core adapter empty Hint Replacing the core adapter empty Page Startup page prints even though it is disabled non-fatal Clearing a media jam At a glance Overview any Page 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 Page Page Page Page Front panel Front panel overview Front panel indicators Front panel buttons Page Page 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 Page 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 Page 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 Page 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 Page Page 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 Page 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 Page Page Canadian EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) regulatory standards Declaration of conformity Page FCC Class B device Page Material Safety Data Sheets MSDS for ink Page Page Page Page Page Specications Page Page Copyrights/Trademarks Page Page Page Users safety summary Page Symbols as marked on product: ! I A B C Page D E unix.tar F Font Sampler FONTS.PS G H I J Font Sampler L M N O P FONTS.PS LPT port TEKEHAND.PS Phaser 600 Quick Reference Guide PRINTER.INF Q Quick Reference Guide Quick-Start Instructions R S T TEKEHAND.PS U V W WIN.INI