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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Interface cables and adapters
The following cables and adapters are available through Tektronix or your
dealer. Contact your dealer for other cables and adapters.
Printer interface cables and adapters
Order number Description Connectors and cable length
012-1468-00 Parallel cable 36-pin high-density plug to 25-pin DSUB plug;
3 meters (9.84 feet)
Connects the printer’s parallel port to a PC or workstation parallel port.
013-0299-00 Parallel/Centronics adapter parallel adapter: converts 36-pin low-density IEEE
1284-B plug to 36-pin high-density IEEE 1284-C plug
Adapts your system’s existing low-density, Centronics parallel cable connector to the printer’s
high-density parallel connector.
012-1465-00 SCSI-2 HD to SCSI-1 LD cable 50-pin high-density plug to 50-pin low-density plug;
2.0 meters (6.56 feet)
Connects the printer’s SCSI port to a hard disk drive or the Phaser Copystation SCSI port.
012-1299-00 SCSI-1 LD to Macintosh SCSI cable 50-pin low-density plug to Macintosh SCSI 25-pin plug
Combine with 013-0297-00 to connect the printer’s SCSI port to a hard disk drive with
Macintosh SCSI 25-pin plug.
013-0297-00 SCSI-1 LD to SCSI-2 HD adapter SCSI adapter: converts 50-pin low-density plug to
50-pin high-density plug
Use with either 012-1465-00 or 012-1299-00 to convert a low-density SCSI connection to a
high-density SCSI connection.
012-1379-00 Serial (RS-232) Null modem cable 9-socket receptacle to 9-socket receptacle;
1.8 meters (6 feet)
Connects the printer’s serial port to a PC or workstation serial port.
012-1380-00 Serial (RS-232) Null modem cable 9-socket receptacle to 25-socket receptacle;
1.8 meters (6 feet)
Connects the printer’s serial port to a PC or workstation serial port.