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
Printing from a workstation
Overview
You can print from a UNIX or VMS workstation through Ethernet, Token
Ring, parallel, or serial interfaces. Workstation users can print from any
application that generates color PostScript.
To use the TekColor color corrections and other printer features, use one of
the following methods:
■ PhaserPrintª software for UNIX workstations functions like a
printer driver for selecting printing options, and provides fast
screen copy printing.
■ PhaserSymª software and EasyCopy/X for VMS workstations
provides proper communication with the printer.
■ The menus on the printerÕs front panel let you select printing
options; refer to ÒFront panel overviewÓ on page 7-1 for
instructions on using the front panel.
■ Downloadable utility Þles let you select printing options; refer to
the on-line manuals on the printerÕs CD-ROM for instructions.
UNIX workstations
For UNIX environments, Tektronix offers the optional PhaserPrintª
software. PhaserPrint software offers driver-selectable printer options and
provides fast, raster Þle and screen copy printing to Tektronix color printers.
PhaserPrint software is available for these workstations:
Workstation Operating System
Sun SunOS 4.1.3
Solaris 2.x
SGI IRIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.x
HP 9000 700/800 HPUX 9.0.5, 10.x
IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2, 4.x
DECstation Ultrix 4.0, 4.4
DEC Alpha OSF/1 3.0, 3.2