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
Getting Set Up
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Tektronix Driver for Windows 3.1:
Setup instructions
AdobePS 3 Driver for Windows 3.1:
Setup instructions
If you selected Easy Installation, or if you selected
the Tektronix Driver for Windows 3.1 in the Custom
Installation, continue with the following instructions:
1. Open the Windows Control Panel.
2. Open the Printers dialog box.
3. Under Installed Printers, select your Phaser 380
printer, click Connect:
■ Phaser 380 (TekColor) Ext
(Extended Features option)
■ Phaser 380 (TekColor)
(standard printer configuration)
4. Select the printer’s port, click OK.
If you selected the AdobePS 3 Driver for Windows 3.1 in
the Custom Installation, continue with the following
instructions:
1. In the Adobe installer, click Read or Skip in the
README.WRI dialog box to start the installation.
2. Click Continue in the PostScript Printer Driver Setup
dialog box. Files are copied to your computer.
3. Click the Restart Windows button in the dialog box that
appears.
4. After Windows restarts, the Install PostScript Printer
from PPD dialog box opens. Select your printer in the list
and click Install:
■ Tektronix Phaser 380 Extended
(Extended Features option)
■ Tektronix Phaser 380
(standard printer configuration)
5. Click OK in the next dialog box.
6. Click Close in the Install PostScript Printer from PPD
dialog box.
7. Click OK in the information dialog box.
8. In the Control Panel, double-click Printers.
9. In the Printers dialog box, select the printer you just
installed, and click Connect.
10. In the Connect dialog box, select the port the printer is
connected to, and click OK.