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
8-6 Phaser 380 Color Printer
Memory upgrade
16 Mbytes of Memory.
In its standard conÞguration, the Phaser 380 printer has
16 Mbytes of memory. You can upgrade the printer to 48 Mbytes or
64 Mbytes of memory to gain printing features and improve performance.
Note The Startup Page reports how much RAM memory is installed in
the printer. For information on the Startup Page, refer to
ÒPrinter Help PagesÓ on page 7-6.
48 Mbytes of Memory.
Upgrading to 48 Mbytes of memory provides
600 x 300 dpi printing, support for job collation, 30 additional fonts, the
Check Print feature, support for the Phaser Copystation, and job pipelining.
Refer to ÒExtended Features upgradeÓ on page 8-4 for detailed information.
64 Mbytes of Memory.
Upgrading to 64 Mbytes of memory provides
additional space for more downloadable fonts and improves job pipelining
to speed printer throughput and ofßoading of print jobs from your
computer.
Font upgrade
You can add an additional 30 fonts to the standard 39 fonts by upgrading to
the Extended Features conÞguration. Refer to ÒExtended Features upgradeÓ
on page 8-4 for more information. Refer to ÒFontsÓ on page 3-46 for more
information on font typefaces.
600 x 300 dpi upgrade
You can upgrade the Phaser 380 printer to print with 600 x 300 dpi resolution
print quality by ordering the Z380FX upgrade. Refer to ÒExtended Features
upgradeÓ on page 8-4 for more information.
Total memory Upgrade from 16 Mbytes Upgrade from 48 Mbytes
48 Mbytes Order Z380FX Not applicable
64 Mbytes Order Z380FX and ZMA16 Order ZMA16