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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Getting Set Up
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Phaser 380 Color Printer
Help Pages overview
The printer has several Help Pages that you can print to learn more about
the printerÕs operation and conÞguration. Refer to ÒPrinter Help PagesÓ on
page 7-6 for a detailed list of available Help Pages. You can print the Help
Pages from the front panel; refer to the instructions below. You can also print
Help Pages using your World Wide Web browser; refer to the PhaserShare
Status Software User Manual for information.
Printing Help Pages from the front panel
After setting up the printer, you may want to print Help Pages to check that
the printer is operating correctly. A general description of printing Help
Pages from the front panel is described in the following steps. For detailed
steps on printing speciÞc Help Pages, refer to the on-line manual on the
printerÕs CD-ROM.
1.
When the printer is on and the Ready message or the printerÕs
name appears, press the Menu button. The printer displays the
following message:
Help Pages
<---- ----> Menu
2.
Press the Menu button to access the Help Pages. The printer
displays the following message:
Menu Map
<---- ----> Print
3.
Using the left (<----) or right (---->) arrow buttons, scroll
through these selections: Menu Map, Configuration Page,
Startup Page, Demonstration Page, RGB Color
Sampler, and CMYK Color Sampler.
4.
Press the Print button to print the displayed page(s).