Xerox Phaser 780 Advanced User Guide

Phaser

780 Color Laser Printer

Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Manual

February 1999 070-9925-00 V3

Copyright © Tektronix, Inc. Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States. Contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission of Tektronix, Inc.

Tektronix

, Phaser Inc. PhaserLink™, PhaserPrint™, PhaserSym™, PhaserTools™, PhaserMatch™ , TekSMART™, and the TekColor™ name are trademarks of Tektronix, Inc. TekColor Care

Adobe Birch

, Acrobat

, Carta

, Acrobat

, Mythos

, PhaserShare

, Quake

, the T ekColor

Reader, Illustrator

, and Tekton

icon, and Made For Each Other

and RealSUPPORT

, PageMaker

are registered trademarks and Adobe Jenson™, Adobe Brilliant Screens™

are service marks of Tektronix, Inc.

, Photoshop

, PostScript

are registered trademarks of Tektronix,

, A TM

, Adobe Garamond

technology, and IntelliSelect™ are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

Apple Geneva

, LaserWriter

, Monaco

, LocalTalk

, and New York

, Macintosh

are registered trademarks and QuickDraw™ is a trademark of Apple Computer,

, Mac

OS, AppleTalk

TrueType2

, Apple Chancery

, Chicago

Incorporated. Marigold™ and Oxford™ are trademarks of AlphaOmega Typography. Avery™ is a trademark of Avery Dennison Corporation.

FTP

Software is a registered trademark of FTP Software, Incorporated.

PCL

is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Corporation. Hoeﬂer Text was designed by the Hoeﬂer Type Foundry. ITC Avant Guard Gothic

ITC Zapf Dingbats

are registered trademarks of International Typeface Corporation.

, ITC Bookman

, ITC Lubalin Graph

, ITC Mona Lisa

, ITC Symbol

, ITC Zapf Chancery

, and

Bernhard Modern™, Clarendon™, Coronet™, Helvetica™, New Century Schoolbook™, Optima™, Palatino™, Stempel Garamond™, Times™, and Univers™ are trademarks of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its subsidiaries.

MS-DOS

and Windows

WingDings™ in TrueType

are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

format is a product of Microsoft Corporation. WingDings is a trademark of Microsoft

Corporation and TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Albertus™, Arial™, Gill Sans™, Joanna™, and Times New Roman™ are trademarks of Monotype Corporation. Antique Olive

is a registered trademark of M. Olive.

Eurostile™ is a trademark of Nebiolo.

Novell Sun

and NetWare

, Sun Microsystems

Incorporated. SPARC

are registered trademarks of Novell, Incorporated.

, and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation

is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Incorporated. SPARCstation™ is a trademark of

are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,

SPARC International, Incorporated, licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Incorporated. Ethernet UNIX

is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation.

is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company

Limited. Other marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.

PANTONE

Colors generated by the Phaser 780 Color Printer are four- and/or three-color process simulations and may not match PANTONE-identiﬁed solid color standards. Use current PANTONE Color Reference Manuals for accurate colors.

PANTONE Color simulations are only obtainable on this product when driven by qualiﬁed Pantone-licensed software packages. Contact Pantone, Inc., for a current list of qualiﬁed licensees.

All trademarks noted herein are either the property of Tektronix, Inc., Pantone, Inc., or their respective companies.

User safety summary

Terms in manual:

Power source:

or ground. Use only the speciﬁed power cord and connector. Refer to a qualiﬁed service technician for changes to the cord or connector.

Operation of product:

Do not operate without the covers and panels properly installed. Do not operate in an atmosphere of explosive gases.

Safety instructions: Terms on product:

Care of product:

or plug is frayed or otherwise damaged, if you spill anything into the case, if product is exposed to any excess moisture, if product is dropped or damaged, if you suspect that the product needs servicing or repair, and whenever you clean the product.

Ground the product:

contact a licensed electrician to install a properly grounded outlet.

CAUTION Conditions that can result in damage to the product. WARNING Conditions that can result in personal injury or loss of life.

Do not apply more than 250 volts RMS between the supply conductors or between either supply conductor

Avoid electric shock by contacting a qualiﬁed service technician to replace fuses inside the product.

Read all installation instructions carefully before you plug the product into a power source.

CAUTION A personal injury hazard exists that may not be apparent. For example, a

DANGER A personal injury hazard exists in the area where you see the sign.

Disconnect the power plug by pulling the plug, not the cord. Disconnect the power plug if the power cord

Plug the three-wire power cord (with grounding prong) into grounded AC outlets only. If necessary,

panel may cover the hazardous area. Also applies to a hazard to property including the product itself.

Symbols as marked on product:

DANGER high voltage: Protective ground (earth) terminal: Use caution. Refer to the manual(s)

for information:

Hot surface on or in the printer. Use caution to avoid personal injury:

WARNING:

If the product loses the ground connection, usage of knobs and controls (and other conductive parts) can cause an electrical shock. Electrical product may be hazardous if misused.

For your protection, do not defeat any interlocks.

This product is certiﬁed under IEC 825 as a Class 1 Laser Product:

CAUTION:

This product utilizes a laser. Use of control or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those speciﬁed herein may result in hazardous radiation exposure. Do not open covers and do not repair yourself. Refer servicing to qualiﬁed personnel.

DANGER:

Invisible laser radiation when open and interlock defeated. AVOID DIRECT EXPOSURE TO BEAM.

PELIGRO:

Cuando se abre y se invalida el bloqueo, se producen radiaciones invisibles de láser. EVITESE LA EXPOSICION DIRECTA A TALES RAYOS.

CAUTION:

Invisible laser radiation when open and interlocks defeated. AVOID DIRECT EXPOSURE TO BEAM.

VARNING:

Osynlig laserstrálning när denna del är öppnad och spärrar är urkopplade. STRÅLEN ÄR FARLIG.

VORSICHT:

Unsichtbare Laserstrahlung, wenn Abdeckung geöffnet und Sicherheitsverriegelung überbrückt. NICH DEM STRAHL AUSSETZEN.

VAROI:

Näkymätön avattaessa ja suojalukitus ohitettaessa olet alttiina lasersäteilylle. ÄLÄ KATSO SÄTEESEN.

ATTENTION:

Rayonnement laser invisible dangereux en cas d'ouverture et lorsque la sécurité est neutralisée. EXPOSITION DANGEREUSE AU FAISCEAU.

VARNING:

Osynlig laserstrálning när denna del är öppnad och spärrar är urkopplade. BETRAKTA EJ STRÅLEN.

ADVARSEL:

Usynlig laserstràling ved abning når sikkerhedsafbrydere er ude af funktion. UNDGÅ UD ÆTTELSE FOR STRÅLING.

Class 3B

ADVARSEL:

Usynlig laserstraling nar deksel åpnes og sikkerhedslas brytes. UNNGÅ EKSPONERING FOR STRÅLEN.

PJQT4521ZA

071-9925-30

FOR USERS IN JAPAN

This equipment is in the 2nd Class category (information equipment to be used in a residential area or an adjacent area thereto) and conforms to the standards set by the Voluntary Control Council For Interference by Information Technology Equipment aimed at preventing radio interference in such residential area. When used near a radio or TV receiver, it may become the cause of radio interference. Read the instructions for correct handling.

1 Color Printer Resources

Printed and on-line books 2 Tektronix World Wide Web sites 3

2 Advanced Print Features

Using fonts 5

Resident typefaces (PostScript) 5 Resident typefaces (PCL5) 5 Downloading fonts 5

Printing a list of resident fonts 7 Using Quick Collate 8 Using Slip Sheets 9 Previewing with Check Print 10 Using Image Smoothing 12 Automatic tray switching 12 Output Order 13 PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing 14 PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop 14

Installing the plug-in: Macintosh 14

Installing the plug-in: Windows 15

Using the plug-in 15

Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box 16

3 Troubleshooting

On-line support 25 Customer Support Centers 26 Getting information by fax 27 Diagnostic tools 28

Maintaining print quality 30 Symptoms and solutions 31 Error codes 38 Print quality hints 40 Media hints 41

Media handling 41

If your printer has a Lower Tray Assembly installed 41

Specialty media 41 Improving print speed 42

Relative port speed 42

Fastest print time 42 Printed colors are not what you expected 43 Printing PANTONE Colors 44 Using the Tektronix halftone screens 44 Selecting page sizes in Windows applications 45 Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows 46 Sharing the printer on a network 47

Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Manual

Startup page prints even though it is disabled 48 PostScript printing errors 49 Enabling the PostScript error handler 50 Installing additional memory 51

Static electricity precautions 51 On-site installation 51 Requirements 52 Installing a memory card 53

4 Printer Management

PhaserLink™ software 57 Usage Profile 58

Job Accounting 59 Enabling and disabling the Startup Page 60 Changing the Energy Star timeout 61 Protected mode for the front panel menu 62

5 Using Color

Color corrections 63 Printing the Color Sampler Charts 64

Overview 64

Color charts 65

Printing samplers from a Macintosh 66

Printing samplers from a PC 68

Printing a color sampler chart from the front panel 70 PANTONE® Color files 71

Methods of printing PANTONE Colors 71

Installing PANTONE® Color files 73

Printing the PANTONE® Color charts 74 PhaserMatch™ ICC software 78

6 Using Printer Utilities

Using the files on the printer’s CD-ROM 79

Downloading files from a Macintosh 79

Using the Apple Printer Utility to perform other tasks 81

Downloading files from a PC 82

Downloading files from the Tektronix World Wide Web site 83

Downloading files from the Tektronix ftp server 84

7 Connecting Peripheral Devices

Connecting SCSI devices 86

Required items 86

Connection overview 86 Connecting one SCSI device 87 Connecting multiple SCSI devices 88

Phaser 780 Color Laser Printer

Initializing a formatted SCSI device 89

Macintosh users 89 PC and workstation users 89

8 Using Your Printer with a Scanner

Overview 91 Making copies 92

Copying a single page 92 Copying multiple pages with an Auto-Document Feeder 93

Using the front panel Copier Menu 94

Copier Menu 95

Placing and scaling images 96

Copying at 100% scale 96 Copying to fit full-bleed images 97 Scaling images using Zoom 98 Scaling images using Scan Area 98

9 Regulatory Information and Specifications

Canadian EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) regulatory standards 99 Declaration of conformity (for 220-230 VAC equipment) 100 FCC Class B device (for 100-120 VAC equipment) 101 Material Safety Data Sheets 102

MSDS for Toner 103 MSDS for Developer 105 MSDS for Silicone Oil 107

Specifications 109

Index

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Chapter

Color Printer Resources

Tektronix offers the following suite of books, web sites, and software tools to help you get the fullest (and most colorful) use from your printer. The books and software tools are all located on the printer’s CD-ROM.

Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Manual

Color Printer Resources

Printed and on-line books

Setup Guide

printed book is shipped with your printer.

An online book is included on the printer’s CD-ROM in PDF (Acrobat) format.

■

Taking inventory Unpacking

■

Setting up

■

Installing printer software

■

User Guide

printed book is shipped with your printer.

An online book is included on the printer’s CD-ROM in PDF (Acrobat) and HTML formats.

Loading media

■

Consumables information

■

Troubleshooting print quality

■

Front panel tutorial

■

Using specialty media

■

PhaserShare Networking Setup Guide

printed book is shipped with your printer.

An online book is included on the printer’s CD-ROM in PDF (Acrobat) format.

Connecting your printer to a network:

■

Novell NetWare Ethernet

■

TCP/IP Token Ring

■

AppleTalk

Phaser 780 Color Laser Printer

Color Printer Resources

Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Manual

An online book is included on the printer’s CD-ROM in PDF (Acrobat) and HTML formats.

Order a printed copy: order number 070-9925-00.

■

All about media Using color

■

Advanced troubleshooting

■

Connecting peripherals

■

PhaserShare Networking Manual

An online book is included on the printer’s CD-ROM in PDF (Acrobat) and HTML formats.

Order a printed copy: order number 071-0180-01.

System administration:

■

■ Setting printer parameters

■ Printer status

■ Printer management:

■ Usage Proﬁle reports

■ PhaserLink software

Tektronix World Wide Web sites

Printer home page

What it includes Where to ﬁnd it

■ Product and supplies

information

■ Downloading printer

drivers

■ Finding your local

reseller

www.tek.com/Color_Printers/

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PhaserLink Printer Management software

What it includes Where to ﬁnd it

TekSMART™ Knowledge Base

Printer administration and support tool using World

www.tek.com/Color_Printers/ product/phaserlink.html

Wide Web technology:

■ Status of print jobs

■ Tracking printer usage

■ Conﬁgure printer

Enter your printer’s Internet address in your web browser.

settings

■ Routine

troubleshooting

■ Set security for

password-protected features

What it includes Where to ﬁnd it

■ Extensive technical

www2.tek.com/merlin/tko

troubleshooting library

■ Easy search function

Color Connection

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What it includes Where to ﬁnd it

Link to the world of

www.colorconnection.tektronix.com

Tektronix color:

■ Color education

■ Printing ideas

■ Personalized email

subscription

■ colorize.com

Chapter

Advanced Print Features

Using fonts

Resident typefaces (PostScript)

The printer accepts Adobe Type 1 and Type 3 downloadable fonts, TrueType fonts, PCL5, and a variety of user-deﬁned fonts.

To extend font capability, the printer supports a SCSI-connected external hard disk for storage of additional fonts. See “Connecting Peripheral Devices” on page 85 for more information.

ATM (Adobe Type Manager) software (provided on a separate CD-ROM shipped with your printer) helps your computer display these fonts on screen as they will appear in your prints.

All printer conﬁgurations are shipped with 136 fonts. To print the fonts, see page 7.

Resident typefaces (PCL5)

For PCL5 (Printer Command Language) printing, the printer supports a variety of typefaces. Before the printer accepts PCL data, the printer port must be set to AutoSelect.

Downloading fonts

Printer-resident fonts are always available for printing. Additional downloadable fonts can be sent from your computer and stored in the printer’s memory or on an external hard disk. Adding more printer memory expands the number of fonts that can be stored on your printer.

Downloading fonts saves print time when printing large, or multiple, documents that use those fonts.

The printer accepts these (and other) downloadable fonts:

■ Type 1

■ Type 3

■ Adobe

■ Agfa

■ Bitstream

■ Microsoft

■ Apple

■ TrueType (scalable to any point size; look the same on-screen and printed).

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Before printing, make sure that the fonts speciﬁed in your document are installed in the printer or are set up correctly. If you request a font in an application that is not resident in the printer, or is not correctly installed, the text is printed in Courier typeface.

See “Connecting Peripheral Devices” on page 85 for more information on using an external SCSI disk for font storage.

Downloading fonts from a Macintosh

1. From the printer’s CD-ROM, run the Installer application. Select Custom

Install. Select Printer Utilities.

2. From the PhaserTools folder on your computer’s hard disk, double-click

Apple Printer Utility. Select your printer’s zone (AppleTalk Zones) and

your printer (Printers).

3. Click Open Printer; a dialog box appears.

4. Click the arrow next to Printer Preferences.

5. Click the arrow next to Fonts for a list of installed fonts and locations.

6. Click Add.

7. Select your font folder, then select the font you want to download.

8. Under Destination, select the download location: either the printer’s

memory or an attached hard disk.

9. Click Add for one font or click Add All for all fonts in the folder.

10. Click Send; the font(s) appear in the list.

N O T E

To remove downloaded fonts, click Remove.

Downloading fonts with Windows 95/Windows 98 (parallel connection only)

To download fonts to a SCSI hard drive, download the DOS-based utility PCSEND.EXE (developed by Adobe Systems Inc. for downloading Adobe fonts) from the Tektronix ftp server, using the following address:

ftp://ftp.tek.com/Color_Printers/bbs/pcs/misc_utilities/PCSEND.EXE

See “Downloading ﬁles from the Tektronix ftp server” on page 84 for more information.

N O T E

PCSEND.EXE will support downloading of fonts to a printer directly connected to a parallel port on the computer. It does not support printers connected via Ethernet.

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Printing a list of resident fonts

From a Macintosh

1. From the printer’s CD-ROM, run the Installer application. Select Easy

Install.

2. From the PhaserTools folder on your computer’s hard disk, double-click

Apple Printer Utility. Select your printer’s zone (AppleTalk Zones) and

your printer (Printers).

3. Click Open Printer; a dialog box appears.

4. From the File menu, select Print Font Samples.

From a PC or workstation

1. From the printer’s CD-ROM, run setup.exe. Select Easy Install.

2. Open the PHSRTOOL directory. Open the SAMPLERS subdirectory.

3. Use one of these methods to send to the printer the FONTS.PS ﬁle:

Advanced Print Features 2

■ PC users: Use the DOS COPY command.

■ Workstation users: Send the ﬁle to the printer as you would any

PostScript ﬁle.

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Using Quick Collate

Requirements

■ Plus Feature Set

■ SCSI external hard disk

Quick Collate speeds the collation and printing of large print jobs and multiple sets of documents. The collate function in some software applications repeatedly sends each page to the printer in sequence until the requested number of copies is printed. With the Quick Collate option, the job is sent only once and then multiple collated sets are produced by the printer, allowing much faster processing time.

The number of pages that can be collated at one time depends on the size of the hard disk attached to the printer.

Select Quick Collate through a supported driver, generally through the Properties (Windows 95/Windows 98) or Printer Speciﬁc Options (Macintosh) menus.

Collation hints and tips

Output order . Depending on your driver, select Output Face Down or uncheck the

Output Face Up box.

Increasing the collation capacity. To increase the number of pages that the printer

can collate at once, add additional hard drives.

Quick Collate and Check Print. When you use the printer’s Quick Collate option

with Check Print, only the ﬁrst page of the ﬁrst set is printed before pausing for review.

N O T E

Make sure that you disable the collate function in your application, because the printer’s Quick Collate option is faster than the collate function in software applications.

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Using Slip Sheets

You can have the printer insert a slip sheet, or a divider page, to separate print jobs, multiple copies of a single print job, or individual pages of a print job.

There are two selections to make in your printer driver.

1. In a supported driver, locate the Slip Sheet options:

Advanced Print Features 2

■ LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver:

In the Print dialog box, click Options.

■ LaserWriter 8.5.1 driver:

In the Print dialog box, use the Printer-Speciﬁc Options pull-down menu.

■ Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver:

In the Device Options tab, select Printer Features.

■ Windows NT driver:

From the Properties tab, select the Advanced tab. From the Document Options tab, select Printer Features.

■ Adobe PS3 driver for Windows 3.1:

Select the Features tab options.

2. Select one of the following for Slip Sheet:

Off End of Job End of Set

End of Page

Turns off the slip sheet feature. Inserts a slip sheet between individual print jobs. Inserts a slip sheet between copies, or sets, of a multi-copy

print job. Inserts a slip sheet between every page of a print job.

3. Select one of the following for Slip Sheet Source:

Tray 1, 2, 3, 4

Multi-Purpose T ray

Takes paper for the slip sheet from the designated tray. Trays 2, 3, and 4 are available with installation of the optional Lower Tray Assembly.

Takes paper for the slip sheet from the external Multi-Purpose Tray on the right side of the printer.

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Previewing with Check Print

Requirements

■ Plus Feature Set

■ Enable the feature in the printer’s front panel

■ Select Check Print in the driver software (see page 11).

When printing multiple pages through the driver (either multiple copies of a single page or a multiple-page ﬁle), select Check Print to preview the ﬁrst page of the job before proceeding with the remainder of the job; this featur e is useful when printing a large job.

Access to Check Print from the driver is enabled and disabled in the printer’s front panel. You can also set the timeout in the front panel (timeout is the amount of time the printer waits after sending the ﬁrst page of a ﬁle before it continues with the remainder of the job).

The factory default for Check Print is “disabled”; the default timeout is 5 minutes. Follow these instructions to enable Check Print in the front panel, reset the timeout, and select the option in the printer driver.

Enable Check Print and reset the timeout

1. At the front panel Ready message, press Select.

2. Press the right arrow button until the display reads Printer Defaults.

3. Press Menu. Then press the right arrow button until the following message

appears:

Printer Defaults Check Print: Off Menu

4. Press Menu; the following message appears, where the asterisk (*) indicates

the current setting:

Check Print *Off Select

5. Press the right arrow button; the following message appears:

Check Print On Select

6. Press Select.

7. Change the timeout (the amount of time the printer pauses before

completing the print job): When the front panel displays Printer Defaults/Check Print Timeout, press Menu.

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Advanced Print Features 2

8. Scroll to the preset timeouts, then press Select to activate your selection.

N O T E

You can also enable Check Print and control the default timeout through PhaserLink software. For details on PhaserLink software, refer to the PhaserShare Networking Manual on the printer’s CD-ROM or web site.

Use Check Print

1. In a supported driver, select Check Print:

■ LaserWriter 8.3.4 driver:

In the Print dialog box, click Options.

■ LaserWriter 8.5.1 driver:

In the Print dialog box, use the Printer-Speciﬁc Options pull-down menu.

■ Windows 95 / Windows 98 PostScript driver:

In the Device Options tab, click Printer features.

■ Windows NT driver:

Under the Properties tab, select the Advanced tab; in the Document Options tab, select Printer features.

■ Adobe PS3 driver for Windows 3.1:

Features tab options.

2. Check your ﬁrst print. At the front panel’s Check Print message, press

one of these buttons:

Cancel Cancels the print job. Continue Prints the entire print job.

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Using Image Smoothing

Image Smoothing blends adjacent colors in low-resolution (less than 150 dots per inch) images for smoother color transitions. For example, use Image Smoothing to improve the appearance of an image downloaded from a web site. Image Smoothing is not recommended for 300-dpi or higher images.

There are four ways of selecting Image Smoothing:

■ Through the printer’s front panel Printer Defaults menu.

■ In a supported printer driver; check the Image Smoothing box on.

■ Through PhaserLink software under Conﬁgure Printer Defaults.

■ Through one of the following PostScript utility ﬁles (see “Using Printer

Utilities” on page 79):

Macintosh

■ Image Smoothing On

■ Image Smoothing Off

■ SMOOTHON.PS

■ SMOOTHOFF.PS

Automatic tray switching

When your printer has a Lower T ray Assembly, you can easily run large jobs without having to replace media often.

1. For automatic tray switching to work properly, load the same type and size

media in all of the printer’s media trays. The media trays must also be of the same type (e.g., Universal). You can also use the Multi-Purpose Tray for automatic tray switching; ﬁll it with the same media type as the paper trays.

2. Install a tray in each of the printer’s tray slots.

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Output Order

Advanced Print Features 2

This option lets you specify whether your document prints face up or face down in the printer’s output trays. Select the option in one of three ways (driver selections override all other settings):

■ Through the printer’s front panel Printer Defaults menu.

■ In a supported printer driver; Output Order option or Output Face Up

option.

■ Through PhaserLink software under Conﬁgure Printer Defaults.

N O T E

The driver or PhaserLink selections override the front panel setting.

Output Order: Face Up

■ Pages are output in the external tray on the left side of the printer.

■ Pages are output so that the ﬁrst page is on the bottom.

■ Depending on the driver you are using, check the Output Face Up box on,

or select Face Up.

Output Order: Face Down

■ Pages are output in the upper output tray, on top of the printer.

■ Pages are output face down in numerical order.

■ Depending on the driver you are using, uncheck the Output Face Up box,

or select Face Down.

Hints

■ Most prints from the Multi-Purpose Tray are output face up, depending on

the media type. If you select Paper at the Media Type prompt, you can select Face Down, and output will be on top of the printer.

■ If you are using the Quick Collate option — depending on the driver you

are using — select Output Face Down, or uncheck the Output Face Up box.

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PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing

PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing provides drag-and-drop printing of PDF and PostScript ﬁles from your web browser in Windows 95 and Windows 98 environments. Just drag any hyperlink for a PDF or PostScript ﬁle from the browser to the PDF Direct Printing icon on the desktop to print the ﬁle on your Tektronix printer. There is no need to open the ﬁle.

To install PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing, use the installer on your printer's CD-ROM. Choose Custom Install and check the box for PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing. Detailed instructions are provided in the README ﬁle and in the on-line help.

PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop

The PhaserPrint™ plug-in, included on the printer’s CD-ROM, operates within the Photoshop application. With PhaserPrint, users can improve image transfer time and gain easy access to Tektronix printer features and other media features.

PhaserPrint software produces correct output only on supported Tektronix printers.

N O T E

If you use this plug-in with a printer not listed in the PhaserPrint dialog box, the image may be placed incorrectly on the page, or colors may look incorrect, or your ﬁle may not print.

Installing the plug-in: Macintosh

N O T E

The PhaserPrint Plug-in is automatically installed with the software installation option Easy Install.

Compatibility requirements

■ Photoshop 3.0 or later

■ System 7.5.5 or later

Installing the plug-in

1. From the printer’s CD-ROM, run the Installer application. Select Custom

Install.

2. Select PhaserPrint plug-in for Photoshop. Click Install; the ﬁle is installed

in the Photoshop application’s Plug-ins folder on your computer’s hard disk.

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Installing the plug-in: Windows

Compatibility requirements

■ Photoshop 3.0 and higher

■ Windows 95/Windows 98 and Windows NT

■ (optional) TCP/IP support requires proper installation of IP networking

software and cards

Installing the plug-in

1. From the printer’s CD-ROM, run setup.exe. Select Custom Install.

2. Select PhaserPrint plug-in for Photoshop; the ﬁle is installed in the

Photoshop application’s Plug-ins directory on your computer’s hard disk.

Using the plug-in

1. If you don’t already have a default printer selected, do the following:

Advanced Print Features 2

■ Macintosh: Open the Chooser. Select a PostScript driver (such as the

Apple LaserWriter 8); select your printer. PhaserPrint software works like a printer driver, and prints to the printer you selected in the Chooser.

■ Windows: Within the PhaserPrint software, select your printer and

port, as described in “Print using (Windows)” on page 17.

2. Open Photoshop. Open an image ﬁle.

3. From the File menu, select Export. Select PhaserPrint; the PhaserPrint

dialog box appears.

4. In the Printer Model ﬁeld, select your printer.

5. PhaserPrint software supports the following image modes selected from

Photoshop’s Mode menu. If you select a mode not listed here, an error message appears and your image is not printed.

■ Bitmap

■ Grayscale

■ Indexed Color

■ RGB Color

■ CMYK Color

■ CIE L*A*B Color

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Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box

Settings you make in the PhaserPrint plug-in remain in effect until you change them. The exception is Number of Copies, which defaults to 1 each time you start the plug-in.

N O T E

You can get information on any of the plug-in’s features or printer-speciﬁc options with the online Help function.

Number of copies

Enter the number of copies to print, from 1 to 1000.

Print using (Macintosh)

The Print using pop-up menu lets you choose between printing an image or saving the image to disk.

■ AppleTalk Prints the image to the printer currently selected in the Chooser;

the currently selected printer name is displayed in the Printer model ﬁeld. If the selected printer is not a PostScript printer, this option is unavailable (grayed-out).

■ PostScript ﬁle Saves an image to disk as a PostScript ﬁle. Click Save; a

dialog box lets you choose a new or existing ﬁle for saving the PostScript code.

When selected, the File format pop-up menu becomes available. This pop-up menu has two options: ASCII base-85 and Binary.

■ ASCII base-85 Image data is encoded using an ASCII base-85 ﬁlter

during ﬁle output, making the resulting PostScript ﬁle portable, and downloadable through interface ports that don’t support binary data.

■ Binary Image data is output in binary format.

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Print using (Windows)

The Print using pop-up menu lets you choose between printing an image or saving the image to disk. It has two to four options, depending on your system conﬁguration:

■ TCP/IP Available if a TCP/IP stack is installed and running. From Printer

model, choose a printer. Add and delete printers in the list, and edit

printer conﬁguration.

N O T E

TCP/IP is the fastest printing method; it prints jobs in much less time than the Parallel Port or Printer Driver methods, and is the recommended method if it is available for the printer you are using.

■ Local Port Available if you have local ports installed in your PC. From the

Port Name, choose the desired printer port.

■ Printer Driver Prints the image through the selected printer driver. From

Driver name, choose a printer.

■ PostScript ﬁle Saves an image to disk as a PostScript ﬁle. Click Save; a

dialog box lets you choose a new or existing ﬁle for saving the PostScript code.

When selected, the File format pop-up menu becomes available. This pop-up menu has two options: ASCII base-85 and Binary.

■ ASCII base-85 Image data is encoded using an ASCII base-85 ﬁlter

during ﬁle output, making the resulting PostScript ﬁle portable so that it can be downloaded through interface ports that don’t support binary data. Note that the ﬁle may be up to 25% larger.

■ Binary Image data is output in binary format. Recommended for

network printing only (not for the parallel port).

Printer name

Displays the currently selected printer.

Printer model

■ Lists all printers supported by PhaserPrint software.

■ When you select your printer model, PhaserPrint displays the correct

options for your printer.

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Media size (selection)

■ Paper sizes are printer-speciﬁc; refer to the online Help for your printer’s

options. Select your printer in the Printer model ﬁeld before selecting a paper size.

Color Correction

■ The setting remains in effect until you change it.

■ Color Corrections are not available if the Mode is Lab.

■ If RGB is the selected Mode in Photoshop, the Calibrated RGB option is

also available.

Media

■ The setting remains in effect until you change it.

Quality

■ The setting remains in effect until you change it.

Rendering Intent

■ Available in the following cases:

■ If the Mode in Photoshop is RGB, and you select Calibrated RGB as

the Color Correction in PhaserPrint.

■ If the Mode in Photoshop is Lab.

■ Calibrated RGB and Lab modes take longer to print than other modes

because the printer must convert for printing CIE colors to RGB or CMYK colors.

Compress Image Data

■ Compresses image data so that less data is sent to the printer or stored in a

ﬁle.

■ Useful if your network connection is slow, for example, if you are

connected to a very busy network or if you are using LocalTalk or a parallel port. For fast networks, printing may be faster without using this option.

■ The setting remains in effect until you change it.

■ Default is on.

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Fast preview

■ Quick print of your image with slightly reduced image quality.

■ Reﬂects the printer color correction you selected.

■ For the fastest printing, use the None color correction option.

■ Default is off.

Output face up

■ Print a document face-up, stacking pages so that the ﬁrst page is on the

bottom: Check this option on.

■ Print a document face-down, stacking the pages face-down in the order

they are printed: Check this option off.

■ The setting remains in effect until you change it.

■ Default is off.

■ Transparencies and other prints made from the Multi-Purpose Tray stack

face up only.

Check Print

■ When sending a multiple-copy print job to the printer through the driver,

you can select Check Print to preview the ﬁrst page of the job, and determine if the job is printing as expected before proceeding with the remainder of the job. This option is especially useful when printing many copies.

■ Available only with the Plus Feature Set.

■ Check Print must be enabled in the printer’s front panel.

■ At the printer’s front panel, set the Check Print timeout.

■ Default is off.

1. Click the Check Print check box.

2. Check your ﬁrst print. At the Check Print message on the printer’s front

panel, press one of the buttons:

■ Cancel Cancels the print job.

■ Continue Continues printing the entire job.

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Image 780Smoothing

■ Blends adjacent colors so that color transitions are less noticeable.

■ Use this option when the image being printed was scanned at a lower

resolution than the printer’s output resolution. For example, printing an image scanned at 72 dpi using the printer’s Standard print quality mode (600 dpi).

■ Images printed using Image Smoothing appear with less sharp detail but

with smoother color transitions.

■ Default is off.

Stylized representation of the page

■ The lower left area of the dialog box displays a stylized representation of

the page as it would look when printed using the current selections in the

Scale, Scale to ﬁt, Printer model, Media size (selection), Landscape orientation, Replicate images, Center images, and Image separation

options. When you change any of these selections, the representation of the page is redrawn to reﬂect the new selection.

■ If Show color preview of image is on, an approximate color image is

displayed.

Scaling an image

■ Scale to ﬁt

■ Scales an image to the largest size that ﬁts the image area of the

currently selected page size or orientation.

■ Automatically updates the Scale ﬁeld value.

■ Scale

■ Type the percentage the image should be scaled, from 10 percent to

2000 percent.

■ Use with the Replicate images option to produce multiple copies of an

image on a single page.

■ Alert message: Image clipping will occur.

This message appears in the PhaserPrint dialog box whenever a scaled image will not ﬁt within the image area of the currently selected page size or orientation option.

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Landscape orientation

■ Prints the image horizontally (landscape) on the page. Leave this box

unchecked to print the image vertically (portrait) on the page.

■ Refer to the Stylized representation of the page, in the lower left corner of

the dialog box, to see how your selection will look when printed.

Center images

■ Centers the image in the page’s image area.

■ If this box is not checked, the lower left corner of the image is aligned with

the lower left corner of the printable area of the page.

■ If the Center images box is checked and the Replicate images box is

checked, the set of replicated images are centered in the image area of the page.

Replicate images

■ Fills the page’s image area with as many copies of the image as will ﬁt.

■ The size of each replicated image is determined by the setting in the Scale

text box.

■ If the size of each replicated image (shown as black rectangles in the

stylized representation of the page) is too small to display, the total image area of the printed page is shown as a single gray rectangle.

Image size

■ Reﬂects the dimensions, in inches or millimeters, of the image.

■ If the value in the Scale box is out-of-range, the image dimensions are

displayed with question marks.

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Image separation

■ Only available if the Replicate images box is checked.

■ Type an amount, in inches or millimeters (depending on your system’s

measurement standard), to specify the amount of separation between each replicated image.

■ A larger amount reduces the number of images that can be printed at

one time.

■ Minimum allowed separation value is 0.

■ Maximum separation value is 100 mm (4 inches).

■ Default separation value is 3.175 mm (0.125/one-eighth inches).

■ V alid characters for this ﬁeld ar e 0 to 9 and a period (or decimal point).

■ As you type a value, the stylized representation of the page, and

Number of images and Image layout values are dynamically updated. If the value entered in the Image separation ﬁeld is out-of-range, the values in these other ﬁelds are replaced by question marks, and no images are shown in the stylized representation of the page. If the value is out-of-range, and you click Print or Save, the following alert is displayed:

The value for Image separation is out of range. It will be replaced with the closest allowed value.

Number of images

■ Displays the number of scaled images that will ﬁt in the image area of the

currently selected Media size (selection) and Landscape orientation options.

■ Number of images reﬂects the current Image separation value.

■ If the Replicate images box is not checked, this number is set to 1.

■ If either Scale or Image separation values are out-of-range, a question

mark is displayed.

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