Tektronix Phaser 600 manuals

See Tips on using this guide

1

Tips on using this guide

2

NTRODUCTION

4

COLOR MATCHING 275

7

SING PANTONE® COLOR FILES 285

8

HOTOSHOP 318

8

PRINTING FROM DOS 393

9

PRINTING FROM UNIX AND VMS

10

USING PRINTER UTILITIES 424

10

USING SCSI HARD DISKS 480

11

ODES 513

12

CARING FOR YOUR PRINTER 535

13

TROUBLESHOOTING 580

13

USING THE FRONT PANEL 681

14

ORDERING INFORMATION 726

15

REGULATORY INFORMATION 745

16

INDEX 769

16

INTRODUCTION

17

Features

18

■ Easy to connect

20

■ Internal 1-Gbyte disk drive

21

■ Phaser Copystation

22

Information roadmap

23

INFORMATION ROADMAP

24

GETTING

25

At a glance

26

Setting up the printer

27

Accessories box contents

28

Phaser CopyStation

29

Registering your printer

30

Unpacking instructions

31

ETTING UP THE PRINTER

32

Removing adhesive tape

33

Removing the transit

34

9480-04.CD

35

9480-121

36

Removing the shipping blocks

37

2 Remove the blocks

38

3 Close the exit cover

38

Attaching the ink loader

39

Loading the ink

40

5 Close the ink loader cover

41

Attaching the output bin

42

9480-123

43

Connecting the printer

44

Copystation User Manual

45

SCSI Disk

46

Parallel

46

Service

46

CONNECTING THE PRINTER

47

9480-128

48

Turning on the printer

49

9480-140

50

What happens at power-up

51

9480-12.CD

52

Help Pages

53

<--- ---> Menu

53

Loading the paper roll

55

Feeding roll paper

55

Software installation

62

OFTWARE INSTALLATION

63

PC/Windows software

64

PC/WINDOWS SOFTWARE

65

Easy Install Custom Install

68

README.TXT

69

ADOBEPS4

70

User Guide

71

USRGUIDE.PDF

71

and Step 8 of

72

Windows to perform Step 7

73

Which Windows driver to

74

PRINTER.INF

75

PSCRPTUI.DLL

76

PSCRIPT.DLL

76

Recommended:

76

PS for PostScript

78

Recommended

84

Macintosh software

85

ACINTOSH SOFTWARE

86

MACINTOSH SOFTWARE

87

LaserWriter 8.x Installer

92

>/600Utility ﬁles

94

Printing overview

97

Driver for Windows NT 4.0

99

Paper Size

100

Paper Source

100

PRINTING FROM A PC

101

Features option.)

102

Print Quality

108

Fusing Mode

109

Cut Media

109

Color Correction

109

Advance Media

110

Print Preview

110

Page Rotation

110

Page Centering

110

Image Smoothing

111

Color Control Strip

111

Mirror Print

111

Cut Media

113

Image Smoothing

115

Mirror Print

116

117

Device Not Selected:

127

Transmission Retry:

127

Orientation, Copies

130

Advanced tab

138

Printers

139

Printing from a Macintosh

140

PRINTING FROM A MACINTOSH

141

Paper

146

Paper Feed

150

Using the Phaser 600 driver

154

Refer to Using the Phaser

157

Selecting printing options

158

Printing from a workstation

159

RINTING FROM A WORKSTATION

160

UNIX workstations

161

UNIXDEMO

162

VMS workstations

163

For more information

164

General hints and tips

165

Selecting print features

166

Methods of selection

167

SELECTING PRINT FEATURES

168

* Factory default setting

168

Print quality modes

170

Color corrections

171

PhaserMatch User Manual

172

All about media

173

Margins and print area

174

Cut-sheet media

175

Roll media

176

ALL ABOUT MEDIA

177

■ Roll media sizes

177

■ U.S. Cut-sheet media sizes

177

Roll media sizes

178

Cut-sheet media sizes

179

Margins

180

U.S. Cut sheet media sizes

181

Metric Cut sheet media sizes

183

Media attributes

185

Media types

186

Media thickness range

187

Media stiffness

188

Image orientation

189

Page Rotation

190

9480-141

193

9480-102

193

9480-12.CD.4

194

Image manipulation

195

IMAGE MANIPULATION

196

Downloading fonts

201

Macintosh screen fonts

203

System Folder

204

Using fonts with Windows

205

Printing font samplers

206

Font Sampler

207

Samplers

207

PhaserTools

207

LaserWriter Utility

207

FONTS.PS

208

SAMPLERS

208

PRINTING:

209

Working with color

211

General guidelines

212

TekColor corrections

213

Color Matching

214

PhaserMatch

215

Color correction descriptions

217

■ Printing PANTONE Colors

218

SWOP Press

222

Commercial Press

223

Euroscale Press

224

SNAP Press

225

Custom Proﬁles

226

Printing in gray scale

227

Raw CMYK Colors

229

RAWCMYK.PS

229

Raw RGB Colors

229

RAWRGB.PS

229

Using the rendering intents

230

Special considerations

231

Special printing features

237

Fusing Mode / Media Fusing

238

PECIAL PRINTING FEATURES

239

Advance Media

240

SPECIAL PRINTING FEATURES

241

Cut Media

242

Mirror Print

244

Page Centering

245

Image Smoothing

248

Fast Preview

250

Print Preview

251

9480-12.CD.5

252

Color Control Strip

254

■ Scale

256

■ Copies

256

Custom page sizes

257

Phaser Copystation

258

PHASER COPYSTATION

259

Connecting the Copystation

260

Setting the print quantity

261

Automatic scaling

262

Custom scaling

262

Getting the best results

263

Media size interactions

264

■ Front panel

265

■ Downloaded utility ﬁle

265

Tips on laminating prints

268

PRINTING THE

269

COLOR SAMPLER

269

ANTONE® Color Files

271

Available color charts

272

SETTING UP THE PRINTER

274

If you are using roll media

275

Installing the ﬁles

277

Important preparations

278

Printing the color charts

280

Printing from a PC

284

MATCHING

291

Select your computer type

292

SING COLORSYNC ON A MACINTOSH

293

Adobe PSPrinter Driver

294

LaserWriter 8.x Driver

294

Printer Descriptions

294

ColorSync Proﬁle

294

TKPH6001.PPD

295

TKP600P1.PPD

295

10 Click OK when ﬁnished

300

COLOR FILES

301

Pantone overview

302

Installing Pantone ﬁles

303

Pantone Files

304

Printer Utilities

304

Acrobat Reader

304

Installing the PC ﬁles

305

Using the Macintosh templates

306

Using the PC library ﬁles

306

TEK_600.AI

314

Aldus PageMaker 5.0 (PC)

315

CorelDRAW! (PC)

316

No Color Correction

317

Phaser 600.pdf

318

PANT600.PDF

318

Printing from Acrobat (PC)

322

Printing the entire chart

325

■ Set Fusing to Cold

330

PC/Windows application

332

USING THE

334

PHASERPRINT

334

P LUG-IN

334

PHOTOSHOP

334

Overview

335

Compatibility

336

Acquire/Export

338

Plug-ins

338

SETUP.EXE

339

PHOTOSHP

339

Using the plug-in

341

USING THE PLUG-IN

342

Number of copies

345

Print using (Macintosh)

346

Print using (Windows)

347

ASCII base-85

348

Binary

348

Printer model

349

Media size

350

Color correction

351

Standard

352

Enhanced

352

Advance media

354

Cut media

355

Page rotation

356

Rendering intent

357

Compress image data

358

Fast preview

359

Manual feed

360

Print preview

361

Mirror print

363

Center page

364

No margins

365

Image smoothing

366

Color control strip

367

Scaling an image

369

Landscape orientation

370

Center images

371

Replicate images

372

Image size

373

Image separation

374

Number of images

376

Image layout

377

Show color preview of image

379

PHASER 600 GX

380

System requirements

383

Phaser 600 GX

384

Creating a desktop printer

385

CREATING A DESKTOP PRINTER

386

Using the Printing menu

389

Control printing

390

Using printing extensions

392

Downloading printer utilities

395

Printer utilities

396

Download PostScript ﬁles

397

Setting up a shared printer

398

Using a shared printer

399

Phaser 600 GX driver

400

Using the Print dialog box

400

Viewing printer status

406

Disabling QuickDraw GX

407

DISABLING QUICKDRAW GX

408

PRINTING

409

FROM DOS

409

Setting up ports

410

Printing from DOS

410

Setting up the parallel port

412

SETTING UP PORTS

413

Using color corrections

415

Using a Tektronix driver

416

Using a non-Tektronix driver

417

PRINTING FROM

418

UNIX AND VMS

418

WORKSTATIONS

418

RINTING FROM VMS WORKSTATIONS

423

Using the printer’s software

424

Obtaining the PC utility ﬁles

425

BTAINING THE PC UTILITY FILES

426

Using the utility ﬁles

427

SING THE UTILITY FILES

428

SGI IRIX versions 4.0.x and 5

430

Sun running Solaris 2.3

430

Sun running SunOS 4.1.3

430

ﬁle system

432

/etc/vfstab

435

Extracting ﬁles from

437

Listing the contents of

438

Extracting the ﬁles

439

PRINTER

440

UTILITIES

440

Installing the utility ﬁles

442

LaserWriter Utility

443

PHSRTOOL

444

INSTALLING THE UTILITY FILES

445

<Tektronix

447

Downloading ﬁles from a PC

448

LW_UTIL.SEA

450

RESET.PS

455

Downloading ﬁles from DOS

457

PRNTNAME.PS

462

Resetting the printer

463

Reset Printer

464

Descriptions

467

Rendering Intent Absolute

468

Rendering Intent Relative

469

Rendering Intent Saturation

470

Rendering Intent Perceptual

471

Selecting

472

■ Use the

476

PIPE_ON.PS

478

PIPE_OFF.PS

478

ADVMEDIA.PS

479

Setting page offset

483

Page Offset XY

484

Setting page offset from a PC

486

ADDCTRLD.BAT

487

CTRLD.PS

487

DEVPARAM.PS

489

Xon/Xoff

490

Parameter values

492

OTHER UTILITIES

493

Other printer utility ﬁles

494

THER UTILITIES

495

HARD DISKS

496

SCSI peripheral devices

498

Selecting a SCSI hard disk

499

Ordering information

500

Connecting a SCSI hard disk

501

Required items

502

Important guidelines

503

Sys/Start

504

CONNECTING A SCSI HARD DISK

505

Connecting one disk

506

Connecting multiple disks

507

9480-139

508

FORMATTING A SCSI HARD DISK

509

Macintosh users

510

PC and workstation users

510

■ Macintosh users

513

■ PC and workstation users

513

Set SysStart Job

516

SYSTART.PS

516

No SysStart Job

518

Front panel

520

PRINTER’S

521

PARALLEL PORT

521

Disabling timeouts

523

Parallel port pin signals

526

PARALLEL PORT PIN SIGNALS

527

USING DIFFERENT

529

PRINTER LANGUAGE

529

PostScript

530

CONFIG.PS

534

CONFIG.PS

534

Printing PostScript ﬁles

539

Printing HP-GL ﬁles

539

PSCRIPT.PS

540

Testing HP-GL mode

543

Testing PostScript mode

543

HPGLPENS.PS

546

YOUR PRINTER

551

Cleaning hints

553

LEANING HINTS

554

Quick cleaning

555

Feed rollers and paper guides

556

QUICK CLEANING

557

Transport rollers

558

9480-116

559

Occasional cleaning

561

Removing the

562

OCCASIONAL CLEANING

563

Cleaning the paper clamp

566

Clamp rollers

568

■ Clean the exit rollers

569

Setting the front panel

570

Change Fuser or Cutter

571

Open Exit Cover

571

Exposing the fuser shuttle

572

Removing the fuser components

573

9480-30.CD

574

Cleaning the fuser shuttle

575

4 If you are

576

Cleaning the exit

577

9480-46.CD

578

9480-61.CD

578

9480-28.CD

579

9480-125.CD

579

Ink loader

581

Cleaning the printhead

584

Test Print

585

<--- ---> Print

585

Emptying the waste bin

586

EMPTYING THE WASTE BIN

587

Before moving the printer

588

Before you begin

591

Cables and media

592

Clean-up

594

Repack the printer

595

TROUBLESHOOTING

597

If you need help

598

library-name

601

■ Use EuroHAL in Europe

602

Use EuroHAL in Europe

605

Front panel messages

609

Cancel button

610

FRONT PANEL MESSAGES

611

Symptoms and solutions

613

Maintaining print quality

614

SYMPTOMS AND SOLUTIONS

616

COM1:, COM2:, LPT1:, LPT2:)

618

LPT1, type:

618

LaserWriter 8 Pref

620

Preferences

620

Windows Header has not been

621

Print to the following port

624

9480-104

628

Media problems (cont'd.)

631

Symptom Solution

631

Monochrome

634

Printing hints

635

PRINTING HINTS

636

Improving print speed

637

Relative port speed

638

Fastest print time

639

IMPROVING PRINT SPEED

640

Printing bitmapped images

641

All users

642

Windows 95 users

645

UNIX workstation users

646

PostScript printing errors

647

POSTSCRIPT PRINTING ERRORS

648

7 Press Select

651

TEKEHAND.PS

654

■ From Windows 3.1

655

■ From Windows 95

655

■ From DOS (and Windows 3.1)

655

From Windows 3.1

656

From Windows 95

657

From DOS (and Windows 3.1)

658

In general

659

Printing PANTONE Colors

661

Blue colors look too purple

662

Setscreen Off (SCRENOFF.PS)

663

Phaser 600 Utilities

665

Setscreen On

665

Setscreen Off

665

SCREENON.PS

666

SCRENOFF.PS

666

■ Windows 3.1

667

■ Windows 95

667

Windows 3.1

668

Windows 95

669

Config: Standard 8/24/40MB

671

Config: Extended 8/24/40MB

671

Media hints and tips

675

MEDIA HINTS AND TIPS

676

Cutting roll media

677

9480-117

678

9480-106

679

9480-131

683

Replacing the core adapter

684

9480-132

685

Clearing a media jam

687

LEARING A MEDIA JAM

689

9480-129

691

9480-113

691

Clearing an ink jam

693

Removing the ink loader

695

9480-130

696

9480-126

696

9480-127

697

Front panel overview

701

Front panel indicators

702

Front panel buttons

703

FRONT PANEL

704

Two-line display

706

Printer information

707

Front panel menu map

708

3-2429-24

709

Pause Menu

710

9480-111

710

Help Pages overview

712

Refer to the

715

Help Pages

717

Menu Map

717

Configuration Page

717

PC utility ﬁle: PRNTCNFG.PS

718

Conﬁguration Page

719

PRNTCNFG.PS

721

Printing the startup page

723

PRINTING THE STARTUP PAGE

724

PC utility ﬁle: PRNTSTPG.PS

725

Print Start Page

726

PRNTSTPG.PS

728

STARTPG.PS/NOSTRTPG.PS

735

Menu Short /Menu Long

739

MENUSHRT.PS/MENULONG.PS

741

PostScript ﬁle

742

ORDERING

743

INFORMATION

743

Made For Each Other

744

Customizing your printer

745

Ordering printer supplies

746

ORDERING PRINTER SUPPLIES

747

XPANDING YOUR PRINTING SYSTEM

751

Upgrade kits

752

Extended Features upgrade

753

Memory upgrade

755

Advantages of adding memory

756

PhaserShare network cards

757

PhaserPrint

759

PhaserSym

760

SCSI hard disk

761

REGULATORY

762

Material Safety Data Sheets

769

MSDS for ink

770

MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS

771

Speciﬁcations

776

With ink loader:

777

With output bin:

777

PECIFICATIONS

778

Copyrights/Trademarks

779

COPYRIGHTS/TRADEMARKS

780

600 Warranty

782

Users safety summary

783

USERS SAFETY SUMMARY

784

Symbols as marked on product:

785

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

786

LPT port

792

Phaser 600 Quick Reference

793

Quick Reference Guide

795

Quick-Start Instructions

795

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