User Manual Color Printer Phaser 600

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Table Of Contents

Welcome!
- Tips on using this guide
Contents
Introduction
- Features
  - Some of the Phaser 600 printer’s features include:...
- Information roadmap
Getting Set Up
- At a glance
- Setting up the printer
- Connecting the printer
- Selecting a language for the front panel
- Installing the starter paper roll
  - Loading the paper roll
  - Feeding roll paper
- Software installation
  - Overview for all PC and Macintosh platforms
- PC/Windows software
  - Which Windows driver to install?
  - Custom Install or Easy Install?
- Macintosh software
  - Which Macintosh driver to install?
  - Custom Install or Easy Install?
- Workstation software
  - Downloadable printer utility files
  - PhaserPrint software for UNIX (demo)
Printing Basics
- Printing overview
- Printing from a PC
- Printing from a Macintosh
- Printing from a workstation
- Printing from specific applications
  - General hints and tips
- Selecting print features
- All about media
- Image manipulation
- Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL
- Fonts
Printing: Beyond the Basics
- Working with color
  - General guidelines
- Color corrections — making the best selection
- Printing and using the color sampler charts
- Special printing features
- Phaser Copystation
- Laminating your Phaser600 prints
  - Tips on laminating prints
Printing the Color Sampler Charts
- Available color charts
- Setting up the printer
  - If you are using manual feed media
  - If you are using roll media
- Printing from a Macintosh
- Printing from a PC
Color Matching
- Select your computer type
- Using ColorSync on a Macintosh
- Using host color correction in Windows 95
Using PANTONE® Color Files
- Pantone overview
- Installing Pantone files
  - Installing the Macintosh files
  - Installing the PC files
- Using the PANTONE Color templates
  - Using the Macintosh templates
  - Using the PC library files
- Printing the PANTONE Color sampler chart
  - Printing individual pages from Acrobat
    - Printing from Acrobat (Macintosh)
    - Printing from Acrobat (PC)
  - Printing the entire chart
    - Printing the entire chart (Macintosh)
    - Printing the entire chart (PC)
- Printing Pantone Colors from an application
  - Printing Pantone Colors from a Macintosh applicati...
  - Printing PANTONE Colors from a PC/Windows applicat...
Using the PhaserPrint™ Plug-in for Photoshop
- Overview
- Compatibility
  - Macintosh
  - Windows
- Installing the PhaserPrint plug-in for Photoshop
  - Installing the plug-in for Macintosh
  - Installing the plug-in for Windows
- Using the plug-in
  - Starting the PhaserPrint plug-in
  - Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box
Using the Phaser600 GX Driver
- System requirements
- Installing the Phaser 600 GX printer driver
- Creating a desktop printer
- Setting up unique desktop printers
- Printing with a desktop printer
  - Using the Printing menu
- Setting up a shared printer
  - Using a shared printer
- Printing from QuickDraw GX applications
- Printing from non-QuickDraw GX applications
  - Changing a desktop printer’s default selections
- Viewing printer status
- Disabling QuickDraw GX
Printing From DOS
- Setting up ports
  - Setting up the parallel port
  - Setting up optional interface ports
- Printing from DOS
Printing from UNIX and VMS Workstations
- Overview
- Printing from UNIX workstations
- Printing from VMS workstations
- Using the printer’s software
- Obtaining the PC utility files
  - Using the Phaser600 printer’s CD-ROM
- Using the utility files
- Mounting the PC/DOS diskette on a workstation
Using Printer Utilities
- Installing the utility files
- Downloading files to the printer
  - Downloading files from a Macintosh
  - Downloading files from a PC
- Changing the printer's name
  - Changing the printer’s name from a Macintosh
  - Changing the printer's name from a PC
- Resetting the printer
  - Resetting the printer from a Macintosh
  - Resetting the printer from a PC
- Using the color rendering intents
  - Descriptions
  - Selecting
    - From the PhaserPrint plug-in for Photoshop
    - From a downloadable utility file
- Enabling and disabling job pipelining
  - Enable/disable job pipelining from a Macintosh
  - Enable/disable job pipelining from a PC
- Modifying the Advance Media default
  - Modifying Advance Media from a Macintosh
  - Modifying Advance Media from a PC
- Setting page offset
  - Setting page offset from a Macintosh
  - Setting page offset from a PC
- Adding Control-D characters to PC files
  - ADDCTRLD.BAT
  - CTRLD.PS
- Configuring a printer’s serial port
  - Parameter values
- Other utilities
  - The following utility files are described in other...
Using SCSI Hard Disks
- SCSI peripheral devices
- Selecting a SCSI hard disk
  - For font storage
- Ordering information
- Connecting a SCSI hard disk
- Formatting a SCSI hard disk
  - Macintosh users
  - PC and workstation users
- Initializing a formatted SCSI hard disk
  - Macintosh users
  - PC and workstation users
- Enabling and disabling SysStart Job execution
Using the Printer’s Parallel Port
- Overview
- Disabling timeouts
- Bi-directional status reporting
- Parallel port pin signals
Using Different Printer Language Modes
- The printer recognizes the following printer or pa...
- Installing the files
- Setting PostScript and HP-GL job and wait timeouts...
- Changing the printer’s language mode
- Testing printer language mode changes
  - Testing HP-GL mode
  - Testing PostScript mode
- Setting default HP-GL pen colors
Caring for Your Printer
- Overview
- Cleaning hints
- Quick cleaning
- Occasional cleaning
- Emptying the waste bin
  - Front panel displays Empty Waste Bin
  - Before moving the printer
- Repacking and moving the printer
Troubleshooting
- If you need help
  - Downloading files from the Tektronix ColorPrinter...
- Using the automated fax systems
  - Use HAL in the U.S.A. and Canada
  - Use EuroHAL in Europe
- Front panel messages
- Symptoms and solutions
  - Diagnostic tools
  - Maintaining print quality
- Printing hints
- Improving print speed
- PostScript printing errors
  - Using a PostScript error handler
  - Fixing timeout problems in Windows
- Printed colors are not what you expected
- Selecting page sizes in Windows applications
  - Windows 3.1
  - Windows 95
- Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows
  - Getting printer configuration information
- Sharing the printer on a network
  - Driver, utility files, and front panel interaction...
  - If the LaserWriter Utility does not work (AppleTal...
- Media hints and tips
  - Cutting roll media
  - Startup page prints even though it is disabled
- Clearing a media jam
- Clearing an ink jam
Using the Front Panel
- Front panel
- Help Pages overview
- Printing the front panel menu map
  - Printing the menu map from the front panel
  - Printing the menu map with PhaserLink software
- Printing the configuration page
- Printing the startup page
- Enabling and disabling the startup page
- Enabling and disabling front panel menus
  - Macintosh utility file: Menu Short /Menu Long
  - PC utility file: MENUSHRT.PS/MENULONG.PS
Ordering Information
- Tektronix Printer and Tektronix Supplies: Made For...
  - Customizing your printer
- Ordering printer supplies
- Ordering Interface cables and adapters
- Expanding your printing system
Regulatory Information
- Overview
- Canadian EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) regul...
- Declaration of conformity (for 220-230 VAC equipme...
- FCC Class B device (for 100-120 VAC equipment)
- Material Safety Data Sheets
  - MSDS for ink
- Specifications
- Copyrights/Trademarks
- Phaser® 600 Warranty
- Users safety summary
Index

PRINTING FROM UNIX AND VMS

ORKSTATIONS 402

Overview 403

Printing from UNIX workstations 405

Printing from VMS workstations 407

Using the printer’s software 408

Obtaining the PC utility files 409

Using the Phaser 600 printer’s CD-ROM 410

Using the utility files 411

Mounting the PC/DOS diskette on a workstation 414

SGI IRIX versions 4.0.x and 5 415

Sun running Solaris 2.3 417

Sun running SunOS 4.1.3 420

Extracting files from unix.tar 421

USING PRINTER UTILITIES 424

Installing the utility files 426

Installing the Macintosh utility files

from the printer’s CD-ROM 427

Installing the PC utility files 428

Downloading files from the Tektronix World Wide Web

site 429

Downloading files from the Tektronix ftp server 430

Downloading files to the printer 432

Downloading files from a Macintosh 433

Downloading files from a PC 438

Changing the printer's name 442

Changing the printer’s name from a Macintosh 443

Changing the printer's name from a PC 445

Resetting the printer 447

Resetting the printer from a Macintosh 448

Resetting the printer from a PC 450

Using the color rendering intents 451

Descriptions 451

Selecting 456

Enabling and disabling job pipelining 459

Enable/disable job pipelining from a Macintosh 460

Enable/disable job pipelining from a PC 462

Modifying the Advance Media default 463

Modifying Advance Media from a Macintosh 464

Modifying Advance Media from a PC 466

Setting page offset 467

Setting page offset from a Macintosh 468

Setting page offset from a PC 470

Adding Control-D characters to PC files 471