Document Outline

• Warranty
• Users Safety Summary
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Getting Set Up
  • At a glance
  • Setting up the printer
    • What you get with your printer
    • Printer options
    • Installing the optional Lower Tray Assembly
    • Removing the packing material from inside the printer
    • Install the transfer roll
    • Adding paper or transparencies
  • Installing options
  • Connecting the printer
    • Printer ports
    • LocalTalk connection
    • Parallel connection
    • Ethernet connection
    • Connecting the power and turning on the printer
  • Installing a driver on your computer
    • Phaser 240 drivers and utilities diskettes
    • PC users
    • Macintosh users
    • Workstation users
  • Setting up PC ports (DOS)
  • Turning on and off the startup page
  • What next?
• Printing
  • Which computer?
  • Printing from a PC (Windows)
  • Printing from a PC (DOS)
  • Printing from a Macintosh
    • Using the Phaser 240 driver
    • Using the Phaser 240 GX driver
  • Printing from a Unix or VMS workstation
    • Printing from specific applications
  • Margins and print area
    • Perforated paper and transparencies
    • Non-perforated plain paper
  • Using two paper trays
  • Selecting driver features
  • Print modes
  • Color corrections
  • Fonts
    • Resident typefaces (PostScript)
    • Resident typefaces (PCL5)
    • Downloading fonts
    • Installing Macintosh screen fonts
  • Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL, PCL5
    • Enabling and disabling automatic language switching
  • Printing hints
    • Getting the largest printed picture
    • Why should I use perforated paper?
    • How long does it take to make a print?
• Caring for Your Printer
  • Overview
    • Importance of cleaning
    • When to clean
    • Cleaning kit
  • Cleaning the printer (with every transfer roll change)
    • Cleaning the thermal head and transfer roll guide
    • Cleaning the paper-feed rollers
    • Cleaning the paper-pick rollers
  • Cleaning the printer (every 5,000 prints)
    • Cleaning the transfer roll sensor pad
    • Cleaning the drum
    • Cleaning the exit rollers
• Selecting Media and Image Options
  • Selecting media size
  • Selecting media trays
  • Selecting print quality
  • Selecting image orientation
  • Selecting media type
• Using Color
  • TekColor Dynamic Correction
    • Working with color
  • Using color corrections
    • Color corrections table
    • Turning off all color corrections
    • Printing the brightest colors and a truer blue
    • Simulating display screen colors
    • Closely match printing press colors
    • Printing in gray scale
    • Using the printer’s current color setting
    • Use simple color conversions
  • Printing the color sampler charts
    • Before you print the CMYK, RGB, and HSB color charts
    • Printing and using the CMYK, RGB, and HSB color charts
    • Before printing the PANTONE Color chart
    • Printing and using the PANTONE Color chart
• Using Fonts
  • Printer fonts
  • Macintosh fonts
    • Using Macintosh screen fonts
    • Printing a font sampler from the Macintosh
    • Downloading fonts to the printer from a Macintosh
  • PC fonts
    • Using fonts with Windows
    • Printing a font sampler from a PC
    • Downloading fonts to the printer from a PC
• Troubleshooting
  • Getting help
    • Using the Tektronix Bulletin Board Service
    • Reaching the Customer Support staff
    • Using the automated fax systems
    • Downloading Tektronix files from the Internet
    • Other electronic addresses and telephone numbers
    • Opening the READ ME files on the Macintosh diskette
  • Solving PostScript printing problems
    • PostScript printing errors
    • Random PostScript errors
    • Using a PostScript error handler
  • Improving print speed
  • If your file doesn’t print
    • General things to check for
    • Check the printer’s language mode
    • Fixing timeout problems in Windows
  • Printed colors are not what you expected
    • In general
    • Printing PANTONE Colors
    • Blue colors look too purple
    • Colors are printing incorrectly
  • Selecting page sizes in Windows applications
  • Sharing the printer on a network
    • Driver and utility file interactions
    • LaserWriter Utility does not work
  • Resetting the printer
  • If you have problems using the paper trays
• Using the Phaser 240 GX Driver
  • System requirements
  • Installing the Phaser 240 GX printer driver
  • Creating a desktop printer
  • Using a desktop printer
    • Setting up unique desktop printers
    • Printing with a desktop printer
  • Using the Printing menu
  • About shared printers
    • Setting up a shared printer
    • Using a shared printer
  • Printing from QuickDraw GX-aware applications
    • Using the Page Setup command
    • Using the Print command
  • Printing from non-QuickDraw GX-aware applications
    • Changing a desktop printer’s default selections
    • Disabling QuickDraw GX
  • Viewing printer status
• Modifying Printer Operations
  • Enabling and disabling the startup page
  • Printing a configuration page
  • Setting the printer’s EtherTalk zone
• Using Different Printer Language Modes
  • Setting PostScript and HP-GL job and wait timeouts
  • Changing the printer’s language mode
    • Printing PostScript files
    • Printing HP-GL files
    • Printing PCL5 files
  • Testing the printer’s language mode
    • HP-GL mode
    • PostScript mode
  • Setting default HP-GL pen colors
• Index