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
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Phaser 380 Color Printer
Using the Windows NT 3.51 PostScript driver
If you are using Microsoft Windows NT, follow the instructions in
ÒInstalling printer software for Windows NT 3.51Ó on page 2-38 to install a
Windows NT PostScript driver with a Phaser 380 printer. You can select
printer page sizes in the driver for Windows NT applications, however,
TekColor color corrections and other PostScript Level 2 features are not
supported by the Windows NT driver. Refer to page 3-24 for instructions on
selecting color corrections from the printerÕs front panel or from
downloadable utility Þles. Refer to your Microsoft Windows NT
documentation for details on features in the Windows NT driver.
Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver
Setting up installed options
Note
If you are not sure which printer options you have installed, the
printerÕs Startup Page lists some of this information, such as
SCSI hard disks. You can print a copy of the Startup Page from
the printerÕs front panel.
1.
From the Properties dialog box, click the Device Settings tab.
2.
In the Device Setting sheet, scroll to the end of the list to
Installable Options.
3.
Under Installable Options, highlight Optional Lower Tray.
4.
In the box that appears at the bottom of the window, click
Installed.
5.
Select other options you have installed.
6.
Click OK to return to the Control Panel.