Document Outline

• Warranty
• Users Safety Summary
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
  • Overview
  • Information roadmap
• Getting Set Up
  • At a glance
  • Setting up the printer
    • What you get with your printer
    • Optional accessories
    • Touring the printer
    • Registering the printer
    • Removing the packing material
    • Installing the optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
    • Unlocking the transit restraint
    • Installing the maintenance tray
    • Loading ink sticks
    • Selecting a media tray configuration
    • Loading media trays
  • Connecting the printer
    • Printer ports
    • PhaserShare network and serial connections
    • Parallel connection
    • SCSI peripheral devices
    • Turning on the printer
    • As the printer warms up
    • Front panel controls
    • Accessing the front panel menu
  • Selecting a language for the front panel
  • Help Pages overview
  • Installing the printer’s software
    • PC/Windows software
    • Macintosh software
    • Workstation software
• Printing Basics
  • Printing from different platforms
    • Printing from a PC
    • Printing from a Macintosh
    • Printing from a workstation
  • Printing from specific applications
    • General hints and tips
    • Windows applications
    • Macintosh applications
  • Selecting print features
  • Print quality modes
  • Color corrections
  • All about media
    • Media size and weight
    • Margins and image area
    • Media and ink handling tips
  • Media trays
    • Establishing a default media tray (optional)
  • Printing letterhead
  • Printing transparencies
    • Transparency quality tips
  • Manual feed printing
  • Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5
  • Fonts
    • Resident typefaces (PostScript)
    • Printer’s Extended Features option
    • Resident typefaces (PCL5)
    • Downloading fonts
    • Macintosh screen fonts
    • Using fonts with Windows
    • Printing font samplers
• Printing: Beyond the Basics
  • Working with color
  • TekColor corrections — making the best selection
    • Deciding which color correction to use
    • Color correction descriptions
    • Special considerations
  • Printing and using the color sampler charts
  • Using the Quick Collate option
    • Quick Collate and the Check Print option
  • Previewing with Check Print
  • Using Image Smoothing
• Caring for Your Printer
  • Overview
  • Adding ink
    • Ink handling tips
  • Emptying the waste tray
  • Replacing the maintenance tray
  • Cleaning the printer
    • Cleaning pages
    • Cleaning supplies
    • Reordering cleaning kit supplies
    • Using isopropyl alcohol
    • Identifying cleaning solutions
    • Cleaning for light stripes: printhead
    • Cleaning for ink smears and transfix problems: internal paper path
    • Cleaning for jams and ink smears: paper-feed rollers
    • Cleaning for ink smears: paper-exit path
    • Cleaning for upper media tray jams: media-pick roller
    • Cleaning for lower tray jams: paper-pick rollers
  • Moving Your Printer
    • Waiting 30 minutes before moving
    • Removing the maintenance tray
    • Locking the transit restraint
    • Changing line voltage
• Troubleshooting
  • If you need help
  • Using the automated fax systems
  • Front panel messages
  • Problems and solutions
  • All about media jams
    • Locating jammed media
    • Removing jammed media
  • Improving print speed
  • If your file doesn’t print
    • General things to check for
    • If you are using PC/NFS
    • If you can’t print from Windows to an LPT port
    • Check the printer’s language mode
  • PostScript printing errors
    • Using a PostScript error handler
    • Fixing timeout problems in Windows
  • Printed colors are not what you expected
    • In general
    • Printing PANTONE Colors
    • Blue colors look too purple
    • Using the Tektronix halftone screens
  • Selecting page sizes in Windows applications
  • Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows
  • Sharing the printer on a network
    • Driver, utility files, and front panel interactions
    • If the LaserWriter Utility does not work
    • If you are using PC/NFS and Windows 3.1
• Using the Front Panel
  • Front panel overview
    • Front panel indicators
    • Front panel buttons
    • Two-line display
    • Enabling and disabling the front panel menu
    • Front panel menu map
  • Printer Help Pages
    • Printing the help pages
    • Printer standby modes
    • Selecting the cleaning page source
• Supplies, Accessories, and Expanding your System
  • Tektronix supplies: the mark of quality
  • Customizing your printer
  • Ordering printer supplies
    • Interface cables and adapters
  • Extended Features upgrade
  • Optional Lower Paper Tray Assembly
  • Optional media trays
    • Benefits of multiple media trays
  • Memory upgrade
  • Font upgrade
  • 600 x 300 dpi upgrade
  • PhaserShare network cards
    • Benefits of networking the printer
  • Phaser Copystation
  • PhaserPrint
  • PhaserSym
  • SCSI hard disk
• Regulatory Information and Specifications
  • Declaration of conformity
  • Canadian EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) regulatory standards
  • FCC Class B warning (for 115 VAC equipment)
  • Material Safety Data Sheets
    • MSDS for ColorStix ink sticks
    • MSDS for silicone oil
  • Specifications
  • Safety and emissions
• Index