Tektronix Phaser 600 User manual

Phaser

600Wide-Format Color Printer

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ONTENTS

NTRODUCTION

Features

Information roadmap

ETTING

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

ASICS

Printing overview

Printing from a PC

Print features quick reference: Windows printer

drivers

Using the Microsoft PostScript driver with Windows

101

Using the AdobePS 4 driver with Windows 95

105

Using the Tektronix printer driver for Windows 3.1

109

Using the Adobe PostScript driver for Windows

3.1

115

Using the Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51 PostScript

driver

118

Using the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript driver

119

Printing from a Macintosh

124

Print features quick reference: Macintosh printer

drivers

125

Using the Phaser 600 driver

138

Using the Adobe PSPrinter driver

139

Using the Apple LaserWriter 8.x driver

140

Using the Phaser 600 GX driver

141

Printing from a workstation

143

Overview

143

UNIX workstations

145

VMS workstations

147

For more information

148

Printing from specific applications

149

General hints and tips

149

Selecting print features

150

Methods of selection

151

Print quality modes

154

Color corrections

155

All about media

157

Selecting media by size

157

Margins and print area

158

Page size, print area, and margins

161

Media attributes

169

Image orientation

173

Page Rotation

174

Manual Feed: using cut-sheet media

176

Image manipulation

179

Printer languages: PostScript, HP-GL

181

Fonts

182

Resident typefaces (PostScript)

183

Printer’s Extended Features option

184

Downloading fonts

185

Macintosh screen fonts

187

Using fonts with Windows

189

Printing font samplers

190

RINTING

: B

EYOND

THE

ASICS

193

Working with color

195

Color corrections — making the best selection

197

Deciding which color correction to use

200

Color correction descriptions

201

Special considerations

215

Printing and using the color sampler charts

219

Special printing features

221

Fusing Mode / Media Fusing

222

Advance Media

224

Cut Media

226

Mirror Print

228

Page Centering

229

Page Rotation

230

Image Smoothing

232

Fast Preview

234

Print Preview

235

Color Control Strip

238

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

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

PHOTOSHOP 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

WORKSTATIONS 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

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