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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Caring for Your Printer
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Phaser 380 Color Printer
3.
Press the Clean button. The printer displays the following
message:
Clean:Ink Smears
Quick Extended
4.
Press the Quick button. After a short delay during the warm-up
period, the printer begins an automatic sequence of feeding 5
clean sheets of paper from the upper media tray.
A front panel message indicates the number of sheets remaining to
be fed. For example:
Cleaning:Using 5 Sheets
Caution
Always use clean sheets of paper to clean the paper path. Do
not reuse cleaning sheets. Large-format, high-grade paper
heavier than 150 g/m
2
(28 lbs.) works best.
5.
When the cleaning sequence is complete, inspect the last sheet of
paper fed through the printer. If it is not clean, repeat the cleaning
sequence using the Extended cleaning routine.
Note
The Extended cleaning routine takes approximately 20 minutes
to complete. After a short warm-up period, the printer feeds 10
sheets of paper, then Þnishes the cleaning routine with a short
cool-down period.
6.
Return the printer to normal operation by pressing the Exit
button.
If the ink smears problem persists after running clean sheets of
paper through the paper path, refer to the procedures for cleaning
media feed rollers and the paper exit path. If the ink smears
problem persists after running clean sheets of paper through the
paper path, refer to the procedures for cleaning paper feed rollers
and the paper exit path.