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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Troubleshooting
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Phaser 380 Color Printer
Windows users (general)
■ Check to make sure that you have conÞgured the communications
ports and the Handshake option correctly. Refer to ÒPrinting Help
Pages from the front panelÓ on page 2-30 for information on
printing a ConÞguration Page.
■ Make sure that you are using the correct cables for your computer
and printer. See ÒInterface cables and adaptersÓ on page 8-3 for
cable information.
Windows 3.1 users
■ Make sure that your printer is connected to the port you selected
in the driverÕs Printers/Connect dialog box.
■ Check the Options dialog box to make sure Printer, not
Encapsulated PostScript File, is selected in the driverÕs
Print To box.
■ If the error message
Windows Header has not been
downloaded to the printer
appears on your computer
screen, click the Job Control tab and click one of the options for
PostScript Header. Refer to ÒUsing the Adobe PostScript driver
for Windows 3.1Ó on page 3-10 for details on the Job Control tab.
Windows 95 users
■ Make sure that your printer is connected to the port you selected
in the driverÕs Details tab.
■ Make sure that the correct port is selected in the driverÕs Details
tab.
■ If the error message
Windows Header has not been
downloaded to the printer
appears on your computer
screen, click the PostScript tab and click one of the options for
PostScript Header. Refer to ÒUsing the AdobePS 4 and Microsoft
drivers with Windows 95Ó on page 3-4 for details on the
PostScript tab.