3COM Phaser Color Printer 860 User Manual

P H A S E R® 8 6 0 COLOR PRINTER

Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Guide

Phaser® 860 Color Printer Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Manual

June 2001

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ii Phaser 860 Color Printer

Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Print quality modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

TekColor™ color corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Secure prints, proof prints, and saved prints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Separation pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Collating copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

N-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Booklet printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Negative and mirror images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Watermarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Image smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Color and Color Sampler Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Color Sampler Charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Printing a color sampler chart from the printer’s front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Printing the colors from an application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Printing the color sampler charts with CentreWare IS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Printing the color sampler charts with utility files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

PANTONE Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Printing PANTONE Colors from the color selection book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Printing printer-specific PANTONE Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Installing the PANTONE Color files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Printing the PANTONE Color Chart from a Macintosh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Printing the PANTONE Color Chart from a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Installing the plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Using the plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Resident typefaces (PostScript) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Resident typefaces (PCL5C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Downloading fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Printing a list of resident fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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Printer Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

CentreWare IS Printer Management software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Usage Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Email notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Operational features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The printer’s Startup Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Protected mode for the front panel menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

SysStart Job execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Manual feed timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Front panel intensity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Front panel contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Intelligent Ready mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Front panel language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Selecting the source for cleaning pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Automatic tray switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Printer Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Utility files on the printer’s CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Utility files on the Xerox web site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Downloading utility files from a Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the Apple Printer Utility to perform other tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Downloading utility files from a PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Troubleshooting Phaser 860 Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Indicator light problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Front panel error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Problems with automatic two-sided printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Problems printing on labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Print quality problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Printing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Preventing media jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Specifications for the Phaser 860 Color Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Regulatory Information for Phaser 860 Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Canadian EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) regulatory standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Declaration of conformity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

FCC Class B device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

ii Phaser 860 Color Printer

Advanced Features

Your Phaser 860 Color Printer comes with many useful features to help you create the best possible printed documents. You can access the printer features in the printer driver, which you use when you send a print job to the printer. To ensure that you have access to all of the printer features, make sure you have installed the printer driver that comes on your Phaser 860 Printer CD-ROM. Updated printer drivers are also available on the Xerox web site:

www.xerox.com/officeprinting

Note

You can also set some of the features on the printer’s front panel. The settings in the printer driver override the front panel settings.

The following features are described in this manual:

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Print quality mode — see page 2

■

TekColor correction — see page 3

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Secure prints, proof prints, and saved prints — see page 4

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Separation pages — see page 6

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Collating copies — see page 6

■

N-up (multiple pages on a single sheet of paper) — see page 7

■

Booklet printing — see page 8

■

Negative and mirror images — see page 9

■

Scaling — see page 9

■

Watermarks — see page 10

■

Image smoothing — see page 10

For additional information on these features, refer to the Windows printer driver’s online help.

Refer to the Phaser 860 Color Printer User Guide for information about two-sided printing, printing on legal paper, or printing on the following special media:

■

Phaser High-Resolution Photo Paper

■

Phaser Labels and Phaser Business Cards

■

Phaser 860 Transparencies

■

Envelopes

■

Letterhead paper

For information about fonts, refer to page 20.

For information about using color, refer to page 11.

Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Manual 1

Advanced Features

Print quality modes

You can choose between different print quality modes to obtain the best combination of speed and print quality for your job.

Print quality mode Maximum speed*

Fast Color

■ Fastest color print mode

■ Ink-saving mode since prints lighter than Standard mode

■ Useful for text and business graphics

■ Ideal for previewing work

■ Produces fast, high-quality transparencies

■ Can select Darken Text to have the printer add a small amount

of color ink to the black text to make it darker and sharper

Standard

■ General-purpose mode for color printing

■ Produces vibrant, saturated prints with smooth color

transitions

■ Suitable for most office uses and images

■ Best quality mode for printing transparencies

Enhanced

■ Balance of high quality and fast speed

■ Increases color saturation compared to Standard mode

■ Smoothest and brightest large-area fills

■ Useful for printing paper copies of overhead presentations

High Resolution/Photo

■ Highest-quality color prints

■ Richest color and near-photographic detail

■ Makes very fine lines, sharp edges, and small text sharper

■ 1200 x 600 dpi

■ Printer must have the DP Features Set

(or must be a DX model)

16 ppm Paper

7 ppm Transparency

10 ppm Paper

3.5 ppm Transparency

6 ppm Paper

3.5 ppm Paper

‡

* Approximate number of pages per minute based on prints with margins of .5 in. or greater; does not include image processing

time.

‡

Transparencies are printed in Standard mode even if you select Enhanced or High Resolution/Photo mode.

You can specify the print quality in a supported driver:

Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver:

■

On the

Windows 2000 PostScript driver:

■

Setup

tab, select a print quality by clicking or dragging the scroll bar.

On the Paper/Quality tab, select a print quality by clicking or dragging the scroll bar.

Windows NT PostScript driver:

■

On the

LaserWriter 8.6

■

In the

Print Quality

the desired mode for

tab, select a print quality by clicking or dragging the scroll bar.

8.7 driver:

dialog box, select the

Quality

Print Quality/Color

pull-down menu, then select

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Advanced Features

TekColor™ color corrections

You can select a color correction to match particular press specifications or simulate your computer screen’s colors. Otherwise, select Automatic to let the printer automatically pick the best color correction for elements in your document.

Color correction Description

Automatic

sRGB Display

Vivid Color

None

SWOP Press

Euroscale Press

Commercial Press

SNAP Press

DIC

Toyo

FujiProof

Black and White

■ Automatically optimizes the color correction for each element (text,

graphics, and photographs) on the page

■ Closely approximates the colors on a standard display screen

■ Produces the brightest possible colors and makes blues appear less

purple

■ Doesn’t use a color correction so the colors you specified in the

application for your job are not altered

■ Use when you have specified colors from the PANTONE

■ Matches U.S. press standards using the Specification for Web Offset

Color Chart

Publications

■ Emulates the Euroscale 4-color process press mode

■ Emulates a 4-color process commercial press mode

■ Matches the standards for printing on uncoated and newsprint papers

using the Specifications for Non-Heat Advertising Printing

■ Matches Dai Nippon printing inks on coated paper

■ Matches commercial Toyo printing inks on coated paper

■ Matches the Fuji Color Art System for commercial North American

proofs

■ Produces a black-and-white version of a document

■ Colors converted to grayscale

■ Use to print page masters for photocopying in black-and-white

You can specify the color correction in a supported driver:

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Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver: On the TekColor tab, select the desired color correction. Some of the color corrections are grouped under Office Color and Press Match Color.

■

Windows 2000 / Windows NT PostScript driver: On the TekColor tab, select the desired color correction. Some of the color corrections are grouped under Office Color and Press Match Color.

■

LaserWriter 8.6 or 8.7 driver: In the Print dialog box, select the Print Quality/Color pull-down menu, then select the desired correction for Color.

Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Manual 3

Advanced Features

Secure prints, proof prints, and saved prints

You can choose one of the following special job types:

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Secure Print: Print a confidential document; the password-protected job is stored on the printer’s hard disk drive. The job prints only after you enter the password on the printer's front panel.

■

Proof Print: Print only one copy of the job so you can proof the copy. If you want to print the remaining copies, select the job name on the printer's front panel.

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Saved Print: Store the job on the hard disk so you can print it on demand. The job isn't deleted after printing.

Note

The printer must have a hard disk installed (and the DP Feature Set) to do secure prints, proof prints, and saved prints. These jobs are stored on the hard drive and remain in the printer even when it is powered off.

Printing secure print, proof print, and saved print jobs

You specify that the job is a secure print, proof print, or saved print job in a supported driver:

■

Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver:

On the Setup tab, choose the job type. For a secure print, also enter a four-digit password to assign to this job. For proof prints and saved prints, also enter the name you want to give this job.

■

Windows 2000 / Windows NT driver:

On the Output Options tab, choose the job type. For a secure print, also enter a four-digit password to assign to this job. For proof prints and saved prints, also enter the name you want to give this job.

■

LaserWriter 8.6 or 8.7 driver: In the Print dialog box, select the Job Type pull-down menu, then choose the job type. For a secure print, also enter a four-digit password to assign to this job. For saved prints, also enter the name you want to give this job.

To print a secure job, specify the password on the printer's front panel:

1. With Menus highlighted, press the Scroll Down key to scroll to Printable Pages.

2. Press the OK key.

3. If necessary, scroll to Secure Print Jobs.

4. Press the OK key.

5. Press the Scroll Down or Scroll Up key to scroll to the correct number for the first

digit of the password, then press the OK key to accept that digit.

6. Repeat step 5 for the second, third, and fourth digits.

7. If necessary, press the Scroll Down key to scroll to Print.

8. Press the OK key to print the job with that password.

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Advanced Features

To print a saved print job or the remaining copies of a proof print job, select the job name on the printer's front panel:

1. With Menus highlighted, press the Scroll Down key to scroll to Printable Pages.

2. Press the OK key.

3. If necessary, scroll to Proof Print Jobs or Saved Print Jobs.

4. Press the OK key.

5. Scroll until you find your job name.

6. Press the OK key.

7. If necessary, scroll to Print.

8. Press the OK key.

9. Scroll to the desired number of copies.

10. Press the OK key to print the job.

Deleting secure print, proof print, and saved print jobs

Secure print, proof print, and saved print jobs remain on the printer’s hard drive even when you turn off the printer. After printing, secure print and proof print jobs are automatically deleted. However, if you decide you don’t want to print the secure job or don’t want to print the remaining copies of the proof job, delete the job using the printer’s front panel. You can also delete saved print jobs.

Note

You will overwrite a proof print, saved print, or secure print job if you send a second job of the same type with the same name or password.

To delete a secure job, specify the password of the job on the printer's front panel:

1. With Menus highlighted, press the OK key.

2. Press the Scroll Down key to scroll to the Printable Pages Menu.

3. Press the OK key.

4. If necessary, scroll to Secure Print Jobs.

5. Press the OK key.

6. Press the Scroll Down or Scroll Up key to scroll to the correct number for the first

digit of the password, then press the OK key to accept that digit.

7. Repeat step 6 for the second, third, and fourth digits.

8. Scroll to Delete.

9. Press the OK key to delete the job with that password.

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Advanced Features

To delete a saved print job or the remaining copies of a proof print job, select the job name on the printer's front panel:

1. With Menus highlighted, press the OK key.

2. Press the Scroll Down key to scroll to the Printable Pages Menu.

3. Press the OK key.

4. If necessary, scroll to Proof Print Jobs or Saved Print Jobs.

5. Press the OK key.

6. Scroll until you find your job name.

7. Press the OK key.

8. Scroll to Delete.

9. Press the OK key to delete the job.

Separation pages

You can have the printer insert a separation page (a divider page) after a print job, between copies of a print job, or between individual pages of a print job. You can also specify the tray/source to use for the separation pages.

You can specify separation pages in a supported driver:

■

Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver:

On the Output Options tab, select the location of the separation pages and, if desired, the source.

■

Windows 2000 / Windows NT driver:

On the Output Options tab, select the location of the separation pages and, if desired, the source.

■

LaserWriter 8.6 or 8.7 driver: In the Print dialog box, select the Advanced Media Handling pull-down menu, then select the location of the separation pages and, if desired, the source.

Collating copies

When you print multiple copies of a print job, you can have it collated at the printer. Each copy (pages 1, 2, and 3, etc.) is printed before the next copy. Otherwise, the printer prints all copies of page 1, then all copies of page 2, etc.

Note

To use the Collate feature, the printer must have the optional hard drive and the DP Feature Set.

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Advanced Features

Note

Many applications have a collate option when you select Print in the application. Collation done at the printer is faster than collation performed by an application. For faster printing of a collated job, select collation in the printer driver (as described below) and do not select collation in the application.

You can specify collation in a supported driver:

■

Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver: On the Output Options tab, check the Collate checkbox.

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Windows 2000 / Windows NT driver: On the Output Options tab, check the Collate checkbox.

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LaserWriter 8.6 or 8.7 driver: In the Print dialog box, select the Advanced Media Handling pull-down menu, then select whether to have Quick Collate on or off.

N-up

When printing a multiple-page document, you can choose to print more than one page on a single sheet of paper. You can choose to print one, two, four, six, nine, or sixteen pages per sheet. When you print more than one page on a sheet, you can also print a border around each page.

You can select N-up in a supported driver:

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Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver:

On the Setup tab, click the More Layout Options button, then choose the number of pages per sheet in the More Layout Options dialog box.

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Windows 2000 driver: On the Layout tab, choose the number of pages per sheet from the drop-down list.

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Windows NT driver: On the Advanced tab under Document Options, select the desired Page Layout (N-up) Option.

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LaserWriter 8.6 or 8.7 driver: In the Print dialog box, select the Layout pull-down menu, then select the number of pages per sheet.

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Advanced Features

Booklet printing

You can print a document in the form of a small book. The printer automatically reduces each page image by 50 percent and prints two pages per sheet of paper. The pages are printed in the correct order so that you can fold and staple the pages to create a booklet.

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Note

To use this feature, the printer must have the DP Feature Set. You can create booklets for any paper size that is supported for 2-sided (duplex) printing.

When you choose Print Booklet Style, you can also print a border around each page and specify the creep and gutter. The gutter is the horizontal distance from the fold to the page image (in points). The creep is the distance that page images are shifted inward (in 10ths of a point); this compensates for the thickness of the folded paper, which otherwise would cause the page images to shift slightly outward.

Gutter Creep

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You can select booklet printing in a supported driver:

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Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver: On the Setup tab, click the More Layout Options button, then check the Print Booklet Style checkbox in the More Layout Options dialog box.

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Windows 2000 driver: On the Layout tab, choose Booklet from the drop-down list.

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Advanced Features

Negative and mirror images

You can print your pages as a negative image (reverses the light and dark areas in your printed image) and/or mirror image (flips images horizontally on pages when printed).

You can select negative or mirror images in a supported driver:

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Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver: On the Setup tab, click the More Layout Options button, then click the Print as a Negative Image and/or Print as a Mirror Image checkbox in the More Layout Options

dialog box.

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Windows 2000 driver:

From the Layout tab or Paper/Quality tab, click the Advanced button. In the dialog box under Document Options and PostScript Options, select either Yes or No for Mirrored Output and Negative Output.

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Windows NT driver: On the Advanced tab under Document Options and PostScript Options, select either Yes or No for Mirrored Output.

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LaserWriter 8.6 or 8.7 driver: From the File menu, select Page Setup, choose PostScript Options from the pull-down menu, and then select Invert Image (to print a negative image) or Flip Horizontal (to print a mirror image).

Scaling

You can reduce or enlarge your page images when they are printed. You select a scaling value between 25 and 400 percent. The default is 100 percent.

You can scale the pages by using the supported driver:

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Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver:

On the Setup tab, click the More Layout Options button, then specify the percentage to scale in the More Layout Options dialog box.

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Windows 2000 driver:

From the Layout tab or Paper/Quality tab, click the Advanced button. In the dialog box under Graphic, select the desired percentage for Scaling.

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Windows NT driver: On the Advanced tab under Graphic, select the desired percentage for Scaling.

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LaserWriter 8.6 or 8.7 driver: From the File menu, select Page Setup and then specify the percentage in the box after Scale.

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Advanced Features

Watermarks

A watermark is text (independent of that provided by the printing application) that is printed on the first page or every page of the document. You can create a watermark or edit an existing watermark’s text, color, location, and angle. You can also choose to print the watermark only on the first page, print the watermark in the background, or print the text of the watermark as an outline (instead of filled text).

Note

Not all applications support watermark printing.

You can select, create, and edit watermarks using a supported driver:

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Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver: On the Setup tab, click the More Layout Options button, and then click the Watermark button to display the Watermarks dialog box.

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Windows 2000 driver:

From the Layout tab or Paper/Quality tab, click the Advanced button. In the dialog box, select the desired Watermark.

Image smoothing

Image Smoothing blends adjacent colors in low-resolution images for smoother color transitions. For example, use Image Smoothing to improve the appearance of a 72-dpi image downloaded from the World Wide Web. Image Smoothing is not recommended for 300-dpi or higher images.

You can turn Image Smoothing on in a supported driver:

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Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver: On the Setup tab, click the More Layout Options button, then click the Image Smoothing checkbox in the More Layout Options dialog box.

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Windows 2000 driver:

From the Layout tab or Paper/Quality tab, click the Advanced button. In the dialog box under Printer Features, select either On or Off for Image Smoothing.

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Windows NT driver: On the Advanced tab under Printer Features, select either On or Off for Image Smoothing.

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LaserWriter 8.6 or 8.7 driver: In the Print dialog box, select the Advanced Media Handling pull-down menu, then select whether to have Image Smoothing on or off.

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Color and Color Sampler Charts

You can have the colors on your print match particular press specifications or match your computer screen’s colors. To do this, pick a color correction in the printer driver; see page 3 for more information.

You can use color sampler charts to help select the colors to use in your application. Refer to the next section for more information.

For information on PANTONE Colors, refer to page 15.

Color Sampler Charts

Color sampler charts are colored rectangles with each color’s component values; they help you select colors in an application that can be reproduced on your printer.

Component values are percentages of each color — CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black), RGB (Red, Green, Blue), or HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) — that combine to make a particular color.

Xerox

Process Color

Sampler

This Graphic Arts guide is designed to help you choose colors on the Tektronix color

printers. These reference pages can be combined into a wall reference chart, or

held in a reference book.

To assemble the chart combine the pages in this order:

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Which color chart you print and use depends on how your application selects color. For information on color selection, refer to the application’s documentation, then print one or more of the color sampler charts.

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Color and Color Sampler Charts

Each color sampler chart is several pages long. Either:

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Print them in panels and connect them to form a wall chart

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Print them and place them in a binder for easy reference

Note

For information on printing the PANTONE Color sampler chart, refer to page 16.

Color sampler chart descriptions

Color sampler chart

CMYK Sampler Chart

RGB Sampler Chart

HSB Sampler Chart

*This is the number of pages if you use one-sided printing; if you use two-sided printing, the

number of pages will be half of this value.

Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black color model

Red, green, and blue color model

Hue, saturation, and brightness color model

Number

of pages*

Front panel

selection

CentreWare IS Utility

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Depending on the type of color sampler chart, you can print the chart by using:

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A selection on the printer’s front panel

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CentreWare Internet Services

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A utility file

Printing a color sampler chart from the printer’s front panel

Note

file

•

Use the same print quality mode and color correction to print the chart that you plan to use when printing from your application; see page 3 for more information. If you use any other print quality mode or color correction in the printer driver when you print from an application, the colors may not match the chart.

To specify the print quality mode and color correction to use for the color sampler chart, on the printer's front panel:

1. With Menus highlighted, press the OK key.

2. Press the Scroll Down key to scroll to the Printer Setup Menu.

3. Press the OK key.

4. Scroll to Job Defaults Menu.

5. Press the OK key.

6. With Set Print Quality Mode highlighted, press the OK key.

7. Scroll to the print quality mode you want.

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Color and Color Sampler Charts

8. Press the OK key to select that print quality mode.

9. Press the Back key to return to the Job Defaults Menu again.

10. Scroll to Set TekColor Correction.

11. Press the OK key.

12. Scroll to the color correction you want.

13. Press the OK key to select that color correction.

To print the color sampler chart, on the printer's front panel:

1. With Menus highlighted, press the OK key.

2. Press the Scroll Down key to scroll to the Printable Pages Menu.

3. Press the OK key.

4. Scroll to either Print CMYK Sampler Pages or Print RGB Sampler Pages.

5. Press the OK key.

Printing the colors from an application

1. Using the color sampler chart, select the desired colors in your application.

2. From your application, apply the desired colors in your document or graphic by

entering the specific CMYK or RGB values as indicated on the sampler chart.

3. When you print your document or graphic, select the same color correction and print

quality mode in the printer driver that you used to print the color sampler chart.

Printing the color sampler charts with CentreWare IS

1. Access your printer’s Internet Services home page; refer to page 27 for more

information.

2. Click the Print button to display the Print tab.

3. On the left side of the page, click Print Color Samplers.

4. On the Print Color Samplers page, select the color sampler (either RGB or CMYK) and

click the green button.

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Color and Color Sampler Charts

Printing the color sampler charts with utility files

From a Macintosh

To print the color sampler charts with utility files, use the Apple Printer Utility. For information about installing the Apple Printer Utility, refer to page 36.

Download the desired color sampler utility file to the printer. Refer to page 38 for the steps to download utility files using the Apple Printer Utility.

From a PC or workstation

1. Locate the utility files on the CD-ROM in the phsr860 folder inside the utility folder.

For more information, refer to page 36. You can use the files directly from the CD-ROM or copy the files to your computer’s hard disk.

2. Download the desired color sampler utility file to the printer. Refer to page 40 for the

steps to download utility files; the procedure depends on the operating system your PC uses.

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Color and Color Sampler Charts

PANTONE Colors

PANTONE Color files for your printer include printer-specific color library files for some specific applications and a file to print the PANTONE Color sampler chart.

For the latest information on color libraries, contact your local Xerox reseller or visit the Xerox web site at:

www.xerox.com/officeprinting

Printing PANTONE Colors from the color selection book

In some applications, you can select colors from the PANTONE Process Imaging Guide. These colors can be proofed on your Phaser printer before final output on a printing press. For this method, the printer-specific PANTONE Color files are not required.

1. From the application, select and apply PANTONE Colors. Use the individual color

values from the PANTONE Process Imaging Guide.

2. Print your document, selecting Commercial Press or SWOP Press for the color

correction in the printer driver; see page 3 for more information.

3. When you are satisfied with the proof, the file can be separated for printing press

plates without adjustment to the file.

Printing printer-specific PANTONE Colors

Your printer can produce process color simulations of PANTONE Spot Colors.

1. Print a copy of the PANTONE Color chart; see page 16 for more information.

2. Within the application, define the desired color in your document by using the

individual CMYK values that appear on the sampler chart.

3. Print your document, selecting None for the color correction in the printer driver; (see

page 3 for more information). For best results, use the proper print quality setting and the same type of paper that you used to print the PANTONE Color chart.

For final output on a color printing press (colors printed as a process color, not spot colors):

1. Open the application.

2. Replace the printer’s PANTONE process Colors with standard PANTONE Colors.

3. Separate the file for printing press plates.

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Color and Color Sampler Charts

Installing the PANTONE Color files

To install the files from the web:

Start your web browser (such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer).

Enter the following web address:

www.xerox.com/officeprinting/

Choose the Phaser 860 printer from the drop-down list.

From the pull-down lists, select your computer platform and PANTONE for type of file.

Click the Go button to search the web site and display the list of files to download.

For each file that you want to download, click on the name of the file, select Save this file to disk, click the OK button, select the location to save the file, and click the Save

button.

The requested file is downloaded to your computer.

7. Repeat step 5 for all files that you want to download.

8. Navigate to the location where you saved the file(s) and extract the file.

Printing the PANTONE Color Chart from a Macintosh

To print individual pages from the PANTONE Color chart, use Acrobat Reader:

To install Acrobat Reader, insert the printer’s CD-ROM in your computer’s drive, go to the Utilities folder, and follow the on-screen instructions to install Acrobat Reader onto your computer’s hard disk.

2. Locate the Pantone files you downloaded from the web site and double-click the

desired PDF file.

View and print pages from the PDF file. For best results, print on paper.

Note

Print only with the None color correction, since other settings cause PANTONE Colors to print differently than expected. Refer to page 3 for more information.

For best results and truest color:

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Print the chart on Phaser Premium Color Printing Paper.

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Select one-sided printing when printing the color chart in order to reduce the effects of color show-through.

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Printing the PANTONE Color Chart from a PC

To print individual pages from the PANTONE Color chart, use Acrobat Reader:

Locate the Pantone files you downloaded from the web site and double-click the desired PDF file.

View and print pages from the PDF file. For best results, print on paper.

Note

Print only with the None color correction, since other settings cause PANTONE Colors to print differently than expected. Refer to page 3 for more information.

For best results and truest color:

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Print the chart on Phaser Premium Color Printing Paper.

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Select one-sided printing when printing the color chart in order to reduce the effects of color show-through.

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