User Manual Color Printer Phaser 600
Table Of Contents
- Welcome!
- Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Set Up
- At a glance
- Setting up the printer
- What you get with your printer
- Registering your printer
- Unpacking instructions
- Moving the printer to its operating location
- Removing adhesive tape and cable tie
- Removing the transit restraint
- Removing the shipping blocks
- Attaching the ink loader
- Loading the ink
- Attaching the output bin
- Attaching the Quick Reference Guide
- Connecting the printer
- Selecting a language for the front panel
- Installing the starter paper roll
- Software installation
- PC/Windows software
- Which Windows driver to install?
- Custom Install or Easy Install?
- Setting up the drivers for Windows95 (cont'd.)
- Setting up the drivers for Windows 3.1 (cont'd.)
- Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT 3.5 ...
- Setting up the printer on a network for Windows NT...
- Setting up a PostScript driver for Windows NT 4.0 ...
- Setting up the printer on a network for Windows NT...
- Macintosh software
- Workstation software
- Printing Basics
- Printing overview
- Printing from a PC
- Print features quick reference: Windows printer dr...
- Using the Microsoft PostScript driver with Windows...
- Using the AdobePS 4 driver with Windows 95
- Using the Tektronix printer driver for Windows 3.1...
- Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows 3.1
- Using the Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 PostScript drive...
- Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver
- Printing from a Macintosh
- Printing from a workstation
- Printing from specific applications
- Selecting print features
- All about media
- Image manipulation
- Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL
- Fonts
- Printing: Beyond the Basics
- Working with color
- Color corrections — making the best selection
- Printing and using the color sampler charts
- Special printing features
- Phaser Copystation
- Laminating your Phaser600 prints
- Printing the Color Sampler Charts
- Color Matching
- Using PANTONE® Color Files
- Using the PhaserPrint™ Plug-in for Photoshop
- Overview
- Compatibility
- Installing the PhaserPrint plug-in for Photoshop
- Using the plug-in
- Starting the PhaserPrint plug-in
- Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box
- Number of copies
- Print using (Macintosh)
- Print using (Windows)
- Printer model
- Media size
- Color correction
- Quality
- Fusing
- Advance media
- Cut media
- Page rotation
- Rendering intent
- Compress image data
- Fast preview
- Manual feed
- Print preview
- Mirror print
- Center page
- No margins
- Image smoothing
- Color control strip
- Stylized representation of the page
- Scaling an image
- Landscape orientation
- Center images
- Replicate images
- Image size
- Image separation
- Number of images
- Image layout
- Media size
- Show color preview of image
- 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
- Setting up a shared printer
- Printing from QuickDraw GX applications
- Printing from non-QuickDraw GX applications
- Viewing printer status
- Disabling QuickDraw GX
- Printing From DOS
- Printing from UNIX and VMS Workstations
- Using Printer Utilities
- Installing the utility files
- Downloading files to the printer
- Changing the printer's name
- Resetting the printer
- Using the color rendering intents
- Enabling and disabling job pipelining
- Modifying the Advance Media default
- Setting page offset
- Adding Control-D characters to PC files
- Configuring a printer’s serial port
- Other utilities
- Using SCSI Hard Disks
- Using the Printer’s Parallel Port
- Using Different Printer Language Modes
- Caring for Your Printer
- Troubleshooting
- If you need help
- Using the automated fax systems
- Front panel messages
- Symptoms and solutions
- Printing hints
- Improving print speed
- 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
- Media hints and tips
- Clearing a media jam
- Clearing an ink jam
- Using the Front Panel
- Ordering Information
- Regulatory Information
- Index

FRONT PANEL MESSAGES
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Close Top Cover Close the top cover; you may need to fully open and then close the
cover and its latch.
Close Exit Cover Close the exit cover.
Close Ink Loader Close the cover on the ink loader.
Lock Top Cover Make sure that the latch on the top cover is locked.
Empty Waste Bin Remove, empty, and reinsert the waste bin.
Service Required
Fault Code:xx
Turn the printer off, wait at least 15 seconds and turn the printer’s
power on again. If the failure persists, note the code number in the
display. In the U.S., call Tektronix service at 1-800-835-6100.
Outside the U.S., contact your local Tektronix office.
Ink Loader Low This message appears when the ink loader has two or fewer ink
sticks of a particular color. Open the cover of the ink loader and
load ink sticks of that color.
<color> Ink Low This message appears when ink loader is empty of a particular
color. The printhead stops printing if ink is not loaded soon. Open
the cover of the ink loader and load ink sticks of that color.
Front panel messages (cont'd.)
Message Action