Tektronix Phaser 600 User Manual

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NTRODUCTION

Features Information roadmap

ONTENTS

ETTING SET UP

At a glance Setting up the printer

What you get with your printer Registering your printer Unpacking instructions Moving the printer to its operating location Removing adhesive tape and cable tie Removing the transit restraint Removing the shipping blocks Attaching the ink loader Loading the ink Attaching the output bin Attaching the Quick Reference Guide

Connecting the printer

Printer ports Adjust the leveling legs and lock the wheels

Turning on the printer Selecting a language for the front panel Installing the starter paper roll

Loading the paper roll

Feeding roll paper Software installation

Overview for all PC and Macintosh platforms

PC/Windows software

Which Windows driver to install? Custom Install or Easy Install?

Macintosh software

Which Macintosh driver to install? Custom Install or Easy Install?

Workstation software

RINTING BASICS

Printing overview Printing from a PC

Print features quick reference: Windows printer

drivers

Using the Microsoft PostScript driver with Windows

Using the AdobePS 4 driver with Windows 95

Using the Tektronix printer driver for Windows 3.1

Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows

3.1

Using the Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 PostScript

driver

Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver Printing from a Macintosh

Print features quick reference: Macintosh printer

drivers

Using the Phaser 600 driver

Using the Adobe PSPrinter driver

Using the Apple LaserWriter 8.x driver

Using the Phaser 600 GX driver Printing from a workstation

Overview

UNIX workstations

VMS workstations

For more information Printing from specific applications

General hints and tips

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Selecting print features

Methods of selection Print quality modes Color corrections

All about media

Selecting media by size Margins and print area Page size, print area, and margins Media attributes Image orientation Page Rotation

Manual Feed: using cut-sheet media Image manipulation Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL Fonts

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Resident typefaces (PostScript)

Printer’s Extended Features option

Downloading fonts

Macintosh screen fonts

Using fonts with Windows

Printing font samplers

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RINTING

Working with color Color corrections — making the best selection

Deciding which color correction to use Color correction descriptions

Special considerations Printing and using the color sampler charts Special printing features

Fusing Mode / Media Fusing

Advance Media

Cut Media

Mirror Print

Page Centering

Page Rotation

Image Smoothing

Fast Preview

Print Preview

Color Control Strip

Reprint 240

Custom page sizes 241 Phaser Copystation 242

Requirements and suggested memory

configuration 243

Connecting the Copystation 244

Setting the print quantity 245

Scaling images from the Copystation 246

Media size interactions 248 Laminating your Phaser 600 prints 251

Tips on laminating prints 252

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EYOND THE BASICS

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PRINTING THE COLOR SAMPLER CHARTS 253

Available color charts 256 Setting up the printer 257

If you are using manual feed media 258 If you are using roll media 259

Printing from a Macintosh 260

Installing the files 261 Important preparations 262 Printing the color charts 264

Printing from a PC 268

Installing the files 269 Important preparations 270 Printing the color charts 272

COLOR MATCHING 275

Select your computer type 276 Using ColorSync on a Macintosh 277 Using host color correction in Windows 95 282

USING PANTONE® COLOR FILES 285

Pantone overview 286 Installing Pantone files 287

Installing the Macintosh files 288 Installing the PC files 289

Using the PANTONE Color templates 290

Using the Macintosh templates 291 Using the PC library files 297

Printing the PANTONE Color sampler chart 301

Printing individual pages from Acrobat 302 Printing the entire chart 309

Printing Pantone Colors from an application 313

Printing Pantone Colors from a Macintosh application 314

Printing PANTONE Colors from a PC/Windows application 316

USING THE PHASERPRINT™ PLUG-IN FOR P

HOTOSHOP 318

Overview 319 Compatibility 320 Installing the PhaserPrint plug-in for Photoshop 321

Installing the plug-in for Macintosh 322

Installing the plug-in for Windows 323 Using the plug-in 325

Starting the PhaserPrint plug-in 326

Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box 328

USING THE PHASER 600 GX DRIVER 364

System requirements 367 Installing the Phaser 600 GX printer driver 368 Creating a desktop printer 369 Setting up unique desktop printers 371 Printing with a desktop printer 372

Using the Printing menu 373

Setting up a shared printer 382

Using a shared printer 383 Printing from QuickDraw GX applications 384 Printing from non-QuickDraw GX applications 388 Viewing printer status 390 Disabling QuickDraw GX 391

PRINTING FROM DOS 393

Setting up ports 395

Setting up the parallel port 396 Setting up optional interface ports 397

Printing from DOS 398

Using color corrections 399 Using a Tektronix driver 400 Using a non-Tektronix driver 401

PRINTING FROM UNIX AND VMS W

ORKSTATIONS 402

Overview 403 Printing from UNIX workstations 405 Printing from VMS workstations 407 Using the printer’s software 408 Obtaining the PC utility files 409

Using the Phaser 600 printer’s CD-ROM 410 Using the utility files 411 Mounting the PC/DOS diskette on a workstation 414

SGI IRIX versions 4.0.x and 5 415

Sun running Solaris 2.3 417

Sun running SunOS 4.1.3 420

Extracting files from unix.tar 421

USING PRINTER UTILITIES 424

Installing the utility files 426

Installing the Macintosh utility files from the printer’s CD-ROM 427

Installing the PC utility files 428 Downloading files from the Tektronix World Wide Web

site 429 Downloading files from the Tektronix ftp server 430

Downloading files to the printer 432

Downloading files from a Macintosh 433 Downloading files from a PC 438

Changing the printer's name 442

Changing the printer’s name from a Macintosh 443 Changing the printer's name from a PC 445

Resetting the printer 447

Resetting the printer from a Macintosh 448 Resetting the printer from a PC 450

Using the color rendering intents 451

Descriptions 451 Selecting 456

Enabling and disabling job pipelining 459

Enable/disable job pipelining from a Macintosh 460 Enable/disable job pipelining from a PC 462

Modifying the Advance Media default 463

Modifying Advance Media from a Macintosh 464 Modifying Advance Media from a PC 466

Setting page offset 467

Setting page offset from a Macintosh 468 Setting page offset from a PC 470

Adding Control-D characters to PC files 471

Configuring a printer’s serial port 473 Other utilities 477

The following utility files are described in other

locations: 479

USING SCSI HARD DISKS 480

SCSI peripheral devices 482 Selecting a SCSI hard disk 483 Ordering information 484 Connecting a SCSI hard disk 485

Required items 486 Important guidelines 487 Connecting one disk 490

Connecting multiple disks 491 Formatting a SCSI hard disk 493 Initializing a formatted SCSI hard disk 497 Enabling and disabling SysStart Job execution 500

USING THE PRINTER’S PARALLEL PORT 505

Overview 506 Disabling timeouts 507 Bi-directional status reporting 508 Parallel port pin signals 510

USING DIFFERENT PRINTER LANGUAGE M

ODES 513

Installing the files 516 Setting PostScript and HP-GL job

and wait timeouts 517

Changing the printer’s language mode 522

Printing PostScript files 524

Printing HP-GL files 525

Enabling automatic language selection 526 Testing printer language mode changes 527

Testing HP-GL mode 528

Testing PostScript mode 529 Setting default HP-GL pen colors 530

CARING FOR YOUR PRINTER 535

Overview 536 Cleaning hints 537 Quick cleaning 539

Feed rollers and paper guides 540 Transport rollers 542 Drum 544

Occasional cleaning 545

Back tension blade and paper clamp 546 Clamp rollers 552 Fuser shuttle and exit rollers 553 Ink loader 565 Cleaning the printhead 567

Emptying the waste bin 569

Front panel displays Empty Waste Bin 570 Before moving the printer 571

Repacking and moving the printer 573

TROUBLESHOOTING 580

If you need help 581

Downloading files from the Tektronix

Color Printer Information Server 583 Using the automated fax systems 585

Use HAL in the U.S.A. and Canada 586

Use EuroHAL in Europe 588 Front panel messages 592 Symptoms and solutions 596

Diagnostic tools 596

Maintaining print quality 597 Printing hints 618 Improving print speed 620

Relative port speed 621

Fastest print time 622

Printing bitmapped images 624 PostScript printing errors 630

Using a PostScript error handler 632

Fixing timeout problems in Windows 638 Printed colors are not what you expected 642

In general 642

Printing PANTONE Colors 644

Blue colors look too purple 645

Using the Tektronix halftone screens 646 Selecting page sizes in Windows applications 650 Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows 653 Sharing the printer on a network 655

If the LaserWriter Utility does not work

(AppleTalk) 657

Media hints and tips 658

Cutting roll media 660 Startup page prints even though it is disabled 669

Clearing a media jam 670

At a glance 670 Overview 671 Clearing a media jam 673

Clearing an ink jam 676

USING THE FRONT PANEL 681

Front panel 683

Front panel overview 684

Front panel indicators 685

Front panel buttons 686

Two-line display 689

Printer information 690

Front panel menu map 691

Pause menu 693 Help Pages overview 695 Printing the front panel menu map 696

Printing the menu map from the front panel 697

Printing the menu map with PhaserLink software 698 Printing the configuration page 699

Printing the configuration page from the front

panel 700

Printing the configuration page with

a downloadable utility file 701

Printing the configuration page with PhaserLink

software 705 Printing the startup page 706

Printing the startup page from the front panel 707

Printing the startup page with a downloadable utility

file 708

Printing the startup page with PhaserLink

software 712

Enabling and disabling the startup page 713

Enabling and disabling the startup page from the front panel 714

Enabling and disabling the startup page with a downloadable utility file 716

Enabling and disabling the startup page with PhaserLink software 719

Enabling and disabling front panel menus 720

ORDERING INFORMATION 726

Tektronix Printer and Tektronix Supplies:

Made For Each Other® 727

Customizing your printer 728 Ordering printer supplies 729 Ordering Interface cables and adapters 732 Expanding your printing system 734

Upgrade kits 735

Extended Features upgrade 736

Memory upgrade 738

PhaserShare network cards 740

Phaser Copystation 741

PhaserPrint 742

PhaserSym 743

SCSI hard disk 744

REGULATORY INFORMATION 745

Overview 746 Canadian EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility)

regulatory standards 747

Declaration of conformity (for 220-230 VAC

equipment) 748 FCC Class B device (for 100-120 VAC equipment) 750 Material Safety Data Sheets 752

MSDS for ink 753 Specifications 759 Copyrights/Trademarks 762 Phaser® 600 Warranty 765 Users safety summary 766

INDEX 769

INTRODUCTION

Phaser® 600 Wide-Format Color Printer

Features

The Phaser® 600 Wide-Format Color Printer is a Tektronix solid-ink printer that is capable of printing brilliant colors on a variety of media: paper, clear and white polyester ﬁlm, sign vinyl, image-transfer ﬁlm, newsprint, and canvas, to name a few. The printer is capable of printing on sheet-fed media, in a variety of sizes up to Architectural E-size (36 x 48 inches), as well as roll-fed media for printing posters, large banners and signage.

Standard conﬁguration. In its standard conﬁguration, the printer provides

8 Mbytes of memory, a total of 17 fonts, support for PhaserMatch™ custom color-matching proﬁler, and PhaserLink™, Tektronix’ online control of printer features and access to printer information through a standard web browser. Additional memory (16 Mbytes or 32 Mbytes) for improved performance is optionally available.

Extended Features option. The Extended Features option adds 22 fonts (for a

total of 39) and support for the Phaser Copystation, Print Preview and Reprint features. Additional memory (16 Mbytes or 32 Mbytes) for improved performance is optionally available.

Some of the Phaser 600 printer’s features include:

■ Wide format

■ Networking

■ Internal RIP (Raster Image Processor)

■ Tektronix proprietary ColorStix® ink sticks

■ Automatic high-capacity ink loader

■ Media ﬂexibility and independence

■ TekColor™ Dynamic Correction

Tektronix’ exclusive color-control technology makes it easy to pr int the colors you want.

■ PhaserMatch™ application

For creating custom color proﬁles.

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Special printing features that make your job easier:

■ Reprint, accessible from the printer’s front panel, allows you to reprint

a previously printed PostScript image at a different scale and copy count. Available with the Extended Features option.

■ Print Preview is a driver-selectable option that lets you preview an

image by printing it at a reduced scale, which takes less time and media than printing a full-scale image. Available with the Extended Features option.

■ Easy to connect

Bi-directional parallel port with plug-and-play support; PhaserShare™ cards provide optional network interfaces for the following:

■ Ethernet (EtherTalk, Novell NetWare, and TCP/IP)

■ Token Ring (TokenTalk, Novell NetWare, and TCP/IP)

■ LocalTalk and serial

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PhaserLink™ software — printer control and information access

PhaserLink software provides a breakthrough in printer control and information access. Rather than use vendor-proprietary, printer-speciﬁc, and platform-speciﬁc management utilities, PhaserLink software provides this function using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the basis for World Wide Web browsers). This allows you to use a standard web browser to view printer status, control printer conﬁguration, and link to online documentation via the World Wide Web.

NOTE

To use PhaserLink software, the printer must be connected to a network running TCP/IP. Refer to PhaserShare netw

■ Internal 1-Gbyte disk drive

ork cards for ordering information.

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Font capacity

In its standard conﬁguration, the printer Color Printer has 17 resident PostScript fonts; additionally, it accepts Adobe Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType downloadable fonts. For additional font storage, the printer provides an internal 1-Gbyte SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) disk drive as well as a SCSI port that allows you to attach an external hard disk.

With the Extended Features option, the printer has a total of 39 resident PostScript fonts.

■ Phaser Copystation

The Phaser Copystation accessory enables your printer to be used as a color copier; you can scale an image to automatically ﬁt the media that is loaded in the printer, up to Architectural E-size (36 x 48 inches). Requires the Extended Features option. Refer to Extended F ordering information.

eatures upgrade for

INFORMATION ROADMAP

Information roadmap

Tektronix provides information on the Phaser 600 printer in several ways:

Phaser 600 User

(This manual); includes information on setting up and using the printer:

Manual

■ Hardware and software set up

■ Selecting print features in a driver

■ Caring for your printer

■ Troubleshooting

Quick Reference

Designed for handy access of the information you need at the printer:

Guide

■ Supplies information

■ Loading media and ink

■ Cleaning procedures

■ Troubleshooting

■ Online access information

Diskettes Contain printer drivers, printer description ﬁles, color sampler charts,

and utility ﬁles.

INFORMATION ROADMAP

CD-ROM Contains the contents of this user manual, the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader,

and supplemental information in Acrobat (PDF) format:

■ Using the printer’s downloadable utility files

■ Printing HP-GL files

■ Printing from workstations

■ Using PANTONE Colors

For instructions on installing and using the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF ﬁles, refer to the

README

ﬁles on the CD-ROM.

W orld Wide Web If you have access to the Internet, you can view documentation topics

and answers to Frequently Asked Questions available at Tektronix’ web site:

http://www.tek.com/Color_Printers/userdoc/introduction.html

PhaserMatch User Manual

PhaserShare manuals

Phaser Copystation User Manual

Contains information on using the PhaserMatch software to create custom color proﬁles.

Contains complete information on setting up and using the PhaserShare ports.

Includes information for setting up and using the copystation with your printer.

GETTING

SET UP

Phaser® 600 Wide-Format Color Printer

At a glance

Installation of your printer involves these tasks:

1 Unpacking the printer

Use the it from the shipping pallet. The cover of the printer.

2 Setting up the printer

Removing the transit restraint, attaching the ink loader, loading the ink, installing the output bin, attaching the applicable, installing the optional Phaser Copystation.

3 Connecting power and interface cables

4 Changing the default language for the front panel, if applicable

Phaser 600 Quick Start Instructions

Quick Start Instructions

Quick Reference Guide

to unpack the printer and remove

are attached to the top

, and, if

5 Installing media

6 Installing printer software on your computer

Using the Printer Software diskettes or CD-ROM to install the printer software (drivers, PPDs, and utility ﬁles).

SETTING UP THE PRINTER

Setting up the printer

What you get with your pr inter

The printer and its accessories are shipped in a single box on a pallet. If you ordered an optional Phaser Copystation, it is shipped separately.

The following items are shipped with the printer:

1 Quick-Start Instructions 2 Starter roll of Tektronix

Smooth White Bond paper

3 Output bin 4 Accessories box

(contents described on the next page)

5 Ink loader 6 Allen wrench

Accessories

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Output Bin

Ink Loader

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Accessories box contents

Phaser 600 Color Printer Quick Reference Guide

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SETTING UP THE PRINTER

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Manual

Phaser 600 User Manual

3 Phaser 600 CD-ROM and diskettes 4 Registration card and license

agreement

5 Optional PhaserShare manuals

and diskettes

6 Power cord 7 Parallel adapter

8 ColorStix

ink sticks

9 Supplies information sheet 10 PhaserMatch manual 11 Cleaning kit 12 Fuser kit

Registration

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Agreement

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PhaserMatch

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ColorStix

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13 Media cutting knife

Optional Phaser Copystation accessory

Phaser CopyStation

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SETTING UP THE PRINTER

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SETTING UP THE PRINTER

Registering your printer

1 Find the customer registration card that is appropriate for you (U.S. or

international versions).

2 Fill out the card and mail it.

By registering your printer with Tektronix, you are validating the product warranty and ensuring that you will be sent information about upgrades, service, and accessories as it becomes available.

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