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
Copyright
©
Tektronix, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A. Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of the
United States. Contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission of
Tektronix, Inc.
The method of printing employed by a Tektronix Phaser
¨
380 Color Printer is covered by U. S. Patent No.
5,372,852. Purchase of a Tektronix Phaser 380 Color Printer provides a purchaser with a license under claims 1,
3, 20, and 22 of the '852 patent, but not a license under other claims of that patent, which cover methods of
printing using inks having speciÞc properties. Use of solid-ink sticks Ñ manufactured by any other party and
having these speciÞc properties Ñ with a Tektronix Phaser 380 Color Printer is not licensed.
Tektronix
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, Phaser
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, ColorStix
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, and Made for Each Other
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are registered trademarks of Tektronix, Inc.
TekColorª, PhaserShareª, PhaserPrintªand PhaserLinkª are trademarks of Tektronix, Inc.
IntelliSelectª is a trademark, and Adobe
¨
, PostScript
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, Adobe
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Caslon, Adobe Garamond
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, Lithos
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, Trajan
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,
Adobe Wood Type
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, Blackoak
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, Carta
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, Tekton
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and Poetica
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are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems
Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Adobe Brilliantª Screens technology is a
trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Apple, Macintosh, and AppleTalk are registered trademarks, and QuickDraw is a trademark of Apple Computer
Incorporated.
Timesª, Helveticaª, and Palatinoª are trademarks of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its subsidiaries.
ITC Avant Guard Gothic, ITC Bookman, ITC Zapf Chancery and ITC Zapf Dingbats are registered trademarks of
International Typeface Corporation.
Kaufmann, Americana and Park Avenue are registered trademarks of Kingsley/ATF Type Corporation.
Barmeno is a trademark and Formata is a registered trademark of H. Berthold AG.
Windows
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is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Novell
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NetWare
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is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc.
UNIX
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is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open
Company Ltd.
PCL
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is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Corporation.
PANTONE
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Colors generated by the Phaser 380 Color Printer are four- and/or three-color process simulations
and may not match PANTONE-identiÞed solid color standards. Use current PANTONE Color Reference
Manuals for accurate colors.
PANTONE Color simulations are only obtainable on these products when driven by qualiÞed Pantone-licensed
software packages. Contact Pantone, Inc. for a current list of qualiÞed licensees. © Pantone, Inc., 1988.
All trademarks noted herein are either the property of Tektronix, Inc., Pantone, Inc., or their respective
companies.