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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User Manual
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1.
Install the printerÕs software as described on page 2-47. Select
Easy Install to automatically install all of the necessary software,
or select LaserWriter 8.3.4 Driver and Printer Descriptions in the
Custom Install window.
2.
Open the Chooser.
3.
Select the LaserWriter 8 driver icon.
4.
Click on the Zone your printer is in. See your network
administrator if you have questions.
5.
Select your printer from the list.
6.
Still in the Chooser, click the Setup button to see a list of options.
7.
A dialog box opens showing the PPD Þles you have installed in
the Printer Descriptions folder, in the Extensions folder, inside your
System Folder. Click one of the following PPDs and click Select:
■ Use TKPH3801.PPD with the standard version of the printer.
■ Use TKP380P1.PPD with the printerÕs Extended Features option.
Note
If you are not sure which conÞguration of the printer you have,
the printerÕs Startup Page lists this information under Extended
Features: Yes/No. See page 2-30 for instructions on printing a
copy of the printerÕs Startup Page.
8.
In the dialog box that appears, select the appropriate items under
Installable Options then click OK.
9.
Click the ChooserÕs close box.