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
2
Getting Set Up
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Phaser 380 Color Printer
Optional accessories
When you order one of the printerÕs optional accessories, each is shipped
separately.
1. PhaserShare™ network card (recommended).
A PhaserShare
network interface card provides Ethernet, Token Ring or
LocalTalk/serial connectivity to PCs, Macintosh computers, and
UNIX and VMS workstations.
2. Lower Paper Tray Assembly (recommended).
With a 250-sheet
capacity (paper only), the Lower Paper Tray Assembly adds
dual-tray printing capability to your printer. This is especially
useful if you commonly print on different sizes or types of media.
For example, you might want to print on transparencies,
letterhead, label media or Tabloid Maximum-size media from the
upper tray and use the lower tray for printing on an alternate size
of paper, such as Letter-size.
3. Printer Station (recommended).
The Printer Station is designed to
safely support the weight of the Phaser 380 color printer
(100 kg/220 lbs.) and the printerÕs Lower Paper Tray Assembly
(36.8 kg /81 lbs.). Adding a Printer Station to the printer raises it to
a comfortable operating height, while providing a convenient
location to store the printerÕs supplies. The Printer Station features
hinged doors, a removable drawer, and lockable caster wheels.
4. Phaser Copystation.
The Phaser Copystation adds easy-to-use,
walk-up color copying capability to the printer. Its front panel
controls the number of copies and selects among color, gray scale
and black-and-white copying modes. You can choose to make
copies reduced to 25% or enlarged to 200% of the originalÕs size,
and you can adjust copies for color balance and lightness.
5. SCSI disk for fonts and collation.
A Tektronix-approved SCSI hard
disk is available for use with the printerÕs SCSI port to increase
font storage space and allow print job collation (Extended
Features option required). The Quick Collate feature performs
document collation in the printer, which is faster than the collation
feature that exists in some applications.