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

2
Getting Set Up
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Phaser 380 Color Printer
6.
The Finish Installation dialog box contains instructions for
completing the printer software setup; click Next. The Add
Printer Wizard program is automatically launched.
Note
The setup instructions remain visible while the Add Printer
Wizard is running. If you click on the instructions dialog box,
press the <Alt><Esc> keys to see the Add Printer Wizard again.
7.
In the Add Printer Wizard, click Next in the opening dialog box.
8.
Select printer management, either My computer or Network
printer server, and click Next.
9.
Select a local printer port, or follow these instructions for a
network port:
10.
In the Manufacturers/Printers dialog box, click Have Disk.
11.
Type in the drive for the CD-ROM or diskette, and click OK.
LPR port (for TCP/IP) setup instructions AppleTalk port setup instructions
1. Click the Add Port button.
2. In the Printer Ports dialog box, under
Available Printer Ports, select LPR Port.
3. Click the New Port button; the Add LPR
compatible printer dialog box appears.
4. For Name or address of host providing lpd,
type your printer’s IP address (or Host name if
known to the network).
Note: The printer’s IP address may be available
on the printer’s Configuration Page. If not, ask
your network administrator.
5. For Name of printer or print queue on that
server, type in one of the following (use
uppercase letters):
■ PS for PostScript
■ AUTO for automatic selection
6. Click OK.
7. In the Printer Ports dialog box, click the Close
button to return to the Add Printer Wizard.
8. Click Next and continue with Step 10 below.
1. Click the Add Port button.
2. In the Printer Ports dialog box, under Available Printer
Ports, select AppleTalk Printing Devices.
3. Click the New Port button.
4. Under AppleTalk Printing Devices, double-click on the
appropriate zone (if there are multiple AppleTalk zones).
5. Select your Tektronix printer and click OK.
6. At the prompt:
Do you want to capture this AppleTalk
Printing Device?
, click No.
Note: Clicking Yes hides the printer from regular Macintosh
users, forcing them to use NT Server as a spooler, as long as
NT Server allows sharing of this printer.
7. Click OK.
8. In the Printer Ports dialog box, click the Close button to
return to the Add Printer Wizard.
9. Click Next and continue with Step 10 below.