Printer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright
- Warranty
- Safety Summary
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Set Up
- Printing Basics
- Overview
- Printing from a PC
- Using Windows printer drivers
- Using the printer’s front panel
- Using the AdobePS 4 and Microsoft drivers with Windows 95
- Using the Tektronix driver for Windows 3.1
- Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows 3.1
- Using the Windows NT 3.51 PostScript driver
- Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver
- Printing from DOS
- Printing from a Macintosh
- Printing from a workstation
- Printing from specific applications
- Selecting print features
- Print quality modes
- Color corrections
- All about media
- Media trays
- Printing on letterhead
- Printing transparencies
- Manual-feed printing
- Duplex printing
- Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5
- Fonts
- Printing: Beyond the Basics
- Caring for Your Printer
- Overview
- Adding ink
- Emptying the waste liner (A)
- Replacing the maintenance tray (B)
- Replacing the media tray separator pad
- Cleaning the printer
- Cleaning pages
- Cleaning supplies
- Using isopropyl alcohol
- Identifying cleaning procedures
- Cleaning for light stripes: printhead
- Cleaning for upper tray jams: media pick roller
- Cleaning for jams and ink smears: media-feed rollers
- Cleaning for lower tray jams: paper pick roller
- Cleaning for lower tray jams: paper-feed rollers
- Cleaning for ink smears and transfix problems: internal paper path
- Cleaning for ink smears: paper-exit path
- Cleaning the maintenance tray blade (optional)
- Moving your printer
- Troubleshooting
- If you need help
- Receiving email update notices
- Using the automated fax systems
- Front panel messages
- Problems and solutions
- All about media jams
- If your file doesn’t print
- PostScript printing errors
- Printed colors are not what you expected
- Selecting page sizes in Windows applications
- Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows
- Sharing the printer on a network
- Using the Front Panel
- Supplies, Accessories, and Expanding Your Printer
- Tektronix supplies: the mark of quality
- Customizing your printer
- Ordering printer supplies
- Extended Features upgrade
- Lower Paper Tray Assembly (recommended)
- Printer Station (recommended)
- Media tray
- Memory upgrade
- Font upgrade
- 600 x 300 dpi upgrade
- PhaserShare network cards (recommended)
- Phaser Copystation
- SCSI hard disk
- PhaserPrint for UNIX software
- PhaserSym
- Regulatory Information and Specifications
- Index
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Phaser 380 Color Printer
Printing transparencies 3-39
Transparency quality tips 3-40
Manual-feed printing 3-41
Duplex printing 3-44
Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5 3-45
Fonts 3-46
Resident typefaces (PostScript) 3-46
PrinterÕs Extended Features option 3-47
4 Printing: Beyond the Basics
Working with color 4-2
General guidelines 4-2
TekColor corrections Ñ making the best selection 4-3
Deciding which color correction to use 4-4
Color correction descriptions 4-6
Turning off all color corrections 4-6
Printing the brightest colors and a truer blue 4-6
Simulating display screen colors 4-6
Closely match printing press colors 4-7
Printing in gray scale 4-8
Using the printerÕs current color defaults 4-8
Special considerations 4-9
If your Phaser 380 printer is shared on a network 4-9
Application color corrections 4-9
If you are using an unsupported driver 4-9
Printing and using the color sampler charts 4-10
Methods of printing PANTONE Colors 4-11
Printer-specific PANTONE Colors 4-11
PANTONE Colors from swatch books 4-12
Using the Quick Collate option 4-13
Quick Collate and the Check Print option 4-14
Previewing with Check Print 4-15
Using Image Smoothing 4-17
Printing the Color Control Strip 4-18