Document Outline

• Copyright
• Warranty
• 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
    • Installing the maintenance tray
    • Loading ink sticks
    • Choosing media tray configurations
    • Loading media trays
  • Connecting the printer
    • Printer ports
    • PhaserShare network and serial connections
    • Parallel connection
    • SCSI peripheral devices
    • Turning on the printer
    • Unlocking the transit restraint
    • As the printer warms up
    • Front panel controls
    • Accessing the front panel menu
  • Selecting a language for the front panel
  • Help Pages overview
  • PC/Windows software
    • Installer overview
    • Installing printer software for Window 95
    • Installing printer software for Windows NT 4.0
    • Installing printer software for Windows NT 3.51
    • Installing printer software for Windows 3.1
  • Macintosh software
    • Installer overview
    • Deciding which driver to install
    • Using the Macintosh Installer
    • Setting up the Phaser 380 printer driver
    • Setting up the Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver
    • Setting up the Phaser 380 GX driver
  • Workstation software
    • PhaserPrint™ software for UNIX
    • Downloadable printer utility files
• 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
    • Using Macintosh printer drivers
    • Using the printer’s front panel
    • Using the Phaser 380 printer driver
    • Using the Apple LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver
    • Using the Phaser 380 GX driver
  • Printing from a workstation
    • Overview
    • UNIX workstations
    • VMS workstations
  • Printing from specific applications
    • General hints and tips
    • Applications tips
  • Selecting print features
  • Print quality modes
    • Print speed
  • Color corrections
  • All about media
    • Media sizes
    • Media weight
    • Margins and image area
    • Paper and ink handling tips
  • Media trays
    • Standard tray
    • Lower paper tray
    • Establishing a default media tray (optional)
  • Printing on letterhead
  • Printing transparencies
    • Transparency quality tips
  • Manual-feed printing
  • Duplex printing
  • Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5
  • Fonts
    • Resident typefaces (PostScript)
    • Printer’s Extended Features option
• 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
  • Methods of printing PANTONE Colors
    • Printer-specific PANTONE Colors
    • PANTONE Colors from swatch books
  • Using the Quick Collate option
    • Quick Collate and the Check Print option
  • Previewing with Check Print
  • Using Image Smoothing
  • Printing the Color Control Strip
• Caring for Your Printer
  • Overview
  • Adding ink
    • Ink handling tips
  • 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
    • Waiting 45 minutes before moving
    • Removing the maintenance tray (B)
    • Locking the transit restraint
    • Changing line voltage
• Troubleshooting
  • If you need help
  • Receiving email update notices
  • Using the automated fax systems
  • Front panel messages
  • Problems and solutions
  • All about media jams
    • Locating jammed media
    • Removing jammed media
  • 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
• 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
    • Menu Map
    • Configuration Page
    • Startup Page
    • Demonstration Page
    • RGB and CMYK Color Samplers
  • Printer standby modes
  • Selecting the cleaning page source
• Supplies, Accessories, and Expanding Your Printer
  • Tektronix supplies: the mark of quality
  • Customizing your printer
  • Ordering printer supplies
    • Interface cables and adapters
  • 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)
    • Benefits of networking the printer
  • Phaser Copystation
  • SCSI hard disk
  • PhaserPrint for UNIX software
  • PhaserSym
• 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