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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Printing Basics
3-6
Phaser 380 Color Printer
Using the Tektronix driver for Windows 3.1
To select printing options, follow these steps:
1.
From the Control Panel, double-click the Printers icon.
2.
In the Printers dialog box, choose your printer from the list of
installed printers.
3.
Click the Set As Default Printer button if you want to select your
printer as the default.
4.
Click the Connect button; the Connect dialog box appears.
5.
Select the port your printer is connected to.
The printerÕs conÞguration page contains the information you
need to set up the printerÕs port. Refer to ÒPrinting Help Pages
from the front panelÓ on page 2-30 for instructions on printing a
ConÞguration Page.
Note
You can use CONNECT TO FILE to save a document as a
PostScript Þle instead of sending it to the printer. For more
information, see your Microsoft Windows documentation.
Interface Select Then do the following
Parallel LPTx Go to Step 6.
Serial COMx Go to Step 6.
Network Network port
(LPTx or COMx)
1. Click the Network button to open
the Printers-Network
Connections dialog box.
2. Fill in each item based on your
configuration, then click OK.
Refer to your Microsoft Windows
documentation for details, or ask
your network administrator for help.