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
8 Supplies, Accessories, and Expanding Your Printer
8-4 Phaser 380 Color Printer
Extended Features upgrade
In its standard conÞguration, the Phaser 380 printer offers Fast Color and
Standard color printing modes, 16 Mbytes of RAM memory, and 39 fonts.
The Extended Features upgrade consists of a replacement ROM and
additional memory, both of which are required.
The Extended Features upgrade is especially suited for workgroups,
enhancing the printerÕs performance in the following ways:
■ Adds 600 x 300 dpi printing mode. Used for the best text quality
and the smoothest color blends on paper. Produces transparencies
with the most vibrant colors, the smoothest color gradations and
color sweeps, and the highest durability.
■ Adds 32 Mbytes of memory, totalling 48 Mbytes. More memory
provides job pipelining to speed printer throughput and
ofßoading of print jobs from your computer, faster processing of
image data, and additional storage for more downloadable fonts.
Required for 600 x 300 dpi printing.
■ Adds 30 fonts for a total of 69 fonts.
■ Adds software support for Phaser Copystation.
■ Provides a Check Print feature allowing you to review the Þrst
page of a document or multi-page print job before continuing.
Refer to ÒPreviewing with Check PrintÓ on page 4-15 for more
information.
■ Provides a collation feature for printing several copies of a
multiple-page document. Refer to ÒUsing the Quick Collate
optionÓ on page 4-13 for more information. Requires use of an
approved external SCSI hard disk; refer to ÒSelecting a SCSI hard
diskÓ on page 2-24 for more information.
To determine if your printer has the Extended Features option, check the
printerÕs Startup Page. For information on the Startup Page, refer to ÒPrinter
Help PagesÓ on page 7-6. To order the Extended Features upgrade for a
Phaser 380 printer, use Tektronix order number Z380FX.