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

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PostScript

drivers, selecting

error handlers 632, 635

errors, general 630

language 522

PostScript Header

Windows 3.1 driver

116

Windows 95 driver 103, 107

printing errors 630

timeout 518

power indicator 35, 598, 601

power, connecting 34

power-up 35

print area

cut-sheet

159

media rolls 160

print features

selecting color corrections

150

selecting print quality modes 150

print job pipelining 460

Print Preview 4, 235

print quality 537

Enhanced 154

maintaining 596

selecting print quality modes 150

Standard 154

print quantity, Copystation 245

print speed

improving

620, 624

selecting print quality modes 154

printer

features

selecting from a Macintosh

driver

125

selecting from a utility ﬁle 477

selecting from a Windows

driver

selecting from the front

panel

152

front panel

menus

720

languages

HP-GL

514

PCL5 514

PostScript 514

proﬁle for ColorSync 277

renaming 443, 445

resetting 447

startup page

enable or disable

713

printing 706

status reporting

bi-directional interface

508

printer conﬁguration information 654

printer control

PhaserLink

selecting features 151

printer drivers

installing

DOS

400

Macintosh 69

Windows 48

using

DOS

400

Windows 3.1 115

Windows 95 101, 105

Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 118

Windows NT 4.0 119

printer drivers, using

Macintosh

139

printer information, front panel 690

printer languages 187

default 181

printer ports, connecting 28

printer service 581

printer software on CD-ROM 51

printer supplies 729

PRINTER.INF

, updating Windows NT

driver

118

printhead cleaning 567

printing

conﬁguration page

699

features 4, 179

features, special 221

from a Macintosh 124

from a PC 82

from applications 149

languages 181

menu map 696

on a network 655

PANTONE Colors 644

problems 606

startup page 706

time 623

timeout 610