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
6 Troubleshooting
If you need help 6-1
Receiving email update notices 6-2
Using the automated fax systems 6-3
Front panel messages 6-4
Problems and solutions 6-8
All about media jams 6-17
Locating jammed media 6-18
Removing jammed media 6-19
If your file doesnÕt print 6-21
General things to check for 6-21
Macintosh users 6-21
Windows users (general) 6-22
Windows 3.1 users 6-22
Windows 95 users 6-22
If you are using PC/NFS 6-23
If you canÕt print from Windows to an LPT port 6-23
Windows 3.1 6-23
Windows 95 6-24
Check the printerÕs language mode 6-25
PostScript printing errors 6-26
Using a PostScript error handler 6-27
Fixing timeout problems in Windows 6-28
Windows timeout: From Windows 3.1 6-28
Windows timeout: From Windows 95 6-28
Windows timeout: From DOS (and Windows 3.1) 6-29
PrinterÕs timeout 6-29
Printed colors are not what you expected 6-31
In general 6-31
Printing PANTONE Colors 6-32
Blue colors look too purple 6-32
Using the Tektronix halftone screens 6-33
Macintosh users 6-33
PC and workstation users 6-34