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
1
Introduction
1-4
Phaser 380 Color Printer
Information roadmap
Tektronix provides information on the Phaser 380 printer in several ways:
User Manual
The
Phaser 380 Color Printer User Manual
(this manual) includes information
on setting up and using the printer:
■
Hardware and software set up
■
Selecting print features in a driver
■
Caring for your printer
■
Maintaining print quality and troubleshooting problems
Diskettes
The printerÕs diskettes contain printer drivers, printer description Þles, color
sampler charts, and utility Þles.
CD-ROM
The printerÕs CD-ROM contains the same Þles as the printerÕs diskettes and
the contents of this user manual, as well as supplemental information, in
HTML and Adobe
¨
Acrobat
¨
(PDF) formats. For a list of CD-ROM topics,
refer to the Index at the back of this manual.
For instructions on installing and using the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view
PDF Þles, refer to the
README
Þles on the CD-ROM.
World Wide Web
If you have access to the Internet, you can view documentation topics and
answers to Frequently Asked Questions available at TektronixÕ web site:
http://www.tek.com/Color_Printers/userdoc/introduction.html