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
User Manual
2-1
Chapter
2
Getting Set Up
At a glance
Installation of your printer involves these tasks:
1.
Setting up the printer (page 2-2).
Putting all the pieces together: unpacking the printer and accessories,
installing the optional equipment such as the Lower Paper Tray
Assembly, Printer Station and Phaser Copystation, loading the media
tray(s), loading ink sticks, and installing the maintenance tray.
Note
For instructions on installing a SCSI hard disk for font storage and/or
print collation, refer to the CD-ROM that came with your printer.
2.
Connecting the power and interface cables (page 2-20).
3.
Selecting a language for the front panel (page 2-29).
4.
Installing printer driver software on your computer (page 2-31).
Using the Printer Software diskettes or the printerÕs CD-ROM
to install software Ð for example, drivers, PostScript Printer
Description (PPD) Þles and utility Þles Ð on a Macintosh, or a PC
running Windows 95, Windows 3.1, or Windows NT.
Caution
To ensure proper printer operation, install the printer on a ßat
surface having no more than 2 degrees of tilt. This is
approximately equivalent to lifting one side of the printer
16 mm (0.625 in.) off a level surface.