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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Regulatory Information and Specifications
9-8
Phaser 380 Color Printer
Specifications
Printer tilt
Place the printer on a level surface with no more than 2¡ tilt in any direction.
Equivalent to raising one corner of the printer approximately 16 mm
(0.625 in.).
Caution
Tilting the printer more than 2¡ causes drum ßuid to leak from
the maintenance tray resulting in damage to your printer not
covered by the printerÕs warranty.
Temperature
Operating: 15¡ C to 35¡ C (59¡ F to 95¡ F)
Nonoperating: Ð30¡ C to +60¡ C (Ð22¡ F to 140¡ F)
Storage: Ð30¡ C to +60¡ C (Ð22¡ F to 140¡ F)
Humidity
Operating: 10% to 80% Relative Humidity, noncondensing
Nonoperating: 10% to 95% Relative Humidity, noncondensing
Altitude
Operating: 0 to 2,400 meters (0 to 8,000 feet)
Nonoperating: 0 to 15,000 meters (0 to 50,000 feet)
Primary voltage ranges
87 Ð 128 VAC, 115 VAC nominal 174 Ð 250 VAC, 220 VAC nominal
Frequency range
48 to 66 Hz
AC input ratings
115 VAC, 12 Amps 220 VAC, 6 Amps
Print quality and Pages Per Minute (ppm) speed
Left and right margins for Letter-size media set to 7.3 mm (0.29 in.) or larger.
∆
Tabloid Maximum transparency supported only from the manual-feed slot.
Fast Color
mode
Standard
mode
Enhanced
mode
A4/Letter-size paper
3.5 ppm 2.5 ppm 1.2 ppm
A4/Letter-size transparency
Not
supported
1.5 ppm 0.64 ppm
A3/Tabloid Maximum-size paper
∆
2.0 ppm 1.3 ppm 0.6 ppm