Tektronix PHASER 750 User manual

Combined User and Troubleshooting Manuals

Contents

Tektronix Supplies and Accessories 9

Print Quality Modes 16

TekColor™ Color Corrections 17

Paper Tips 18

Letterhead 19

Supported page sizes and image area 20

Paper and Transparency Trays 21

Paper Tray 21

Transparency Tray 22

Loading Paper or Transparency Tray 23

Multi-Purpose Tray 25

Overview 25

Loading the Multi-Purpose Tray 27

Loading Special Media 31

Tektronix Transparencies 31

Printing #10 Envelopes 33

Printing on Tektronix Color Laser Labels 36

Automatic 2-Sided Printing 39

Manual 2-Sided Printing From the Multi-Purpose Tray

Troubleshooting Print Quality 46

Symptom: Problem in one color only 48

Symptom: Problem in all four colors 50

Symptom: All four colors are solid black 52

Symptom: All four colors are extremely faded

Symptom: Pieces of print image missing all four

colors 54

Media Jams 55

Preventing media jams 55

Jam-Wrong Media 55

Jam at A 56

Jam at B (Lower Tray Assembly Only) 57

Phaser 850 Color Printer

Jam at C 58

Jam at D 60

Jam at E 62

Jam at Multi-Purpose Tray 63

Jam at Duplex Unit 64

Getting Help 66

The front panel Help button: 66

Printer CD-ROM 66

Tektronix web site 67

TekSMART™ Knowledge Base 67

PhaserLink™ Software 67

Color Connection 68

Other online services 68

Controlling Color Density 69

Print and use the Color Reference Page 69

Fonts 71

Resident typefaces (PostScript) 71

Resident typefaces (PCL5C) 71

Downloading fonts 72

Downloading fonts from a Macintosh 73

Printing a list of resident fonts 74

From a Macintosh 74

From a PC or workstation 74

Image Smoothing 75

Quick Collate 76

Requirements 76

Separation Pages 77

PANTONE Colors 78

Methods of printing PANTONE Colors 78

PANTONE Colors from color selection books 78

Combined User and Troubleshooting Manuals

Printer-specific PANTONE Colors 78

Installing the PANTONE Color files 79

From the Web 79

Printing the PANTONE Color Chart 80

Macintosh 80

PC 81

PhaserPrint Plug-in for Photoshop 82

Installing the plug-in: Macintosh 82

Installing the plug-in: Windows 83

Using the plug-in 84

Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box 85

Number of copies 85

Print using (Macintosh) 85

Print using (Windows) 86

Printer model 86

Media size (selection) 86

Color Correction 86

Media 87

Quality 87

Rendering Intent 87

Compress Image Data 87

Fast preview 87

1st Page Preview 88

Image Smoothing 88

Stylized representation of the page 88

Scaling an image 89

Landscape orientation 89

Center images 89

Replicate images 89

Image size 89

Image separation 90

Number of images 90

Image layout 90

Media size (display) 90

Phaser 850 Color Printer

Show color preview of image 90

Printer Utilities 91

Locating the files on the printer’s CD-ROM 92

Installing the utility files for Macintosh 92

Installing the files for PC 92

Locating files on the Tektronix World Wide Web site

Locating files on the Tektronix FTP server 94

Downloading files to the printer from a Macintosh 95

Using the Apple Printer Utility to download files

Using the Apple Printer Utility to perform other

tasks 96

Downloading files to the printer from a PC 97

Downloading files from Windows 3.1 97

Downloading files from Windows 95 / Windows

98 97

Downloading files from Windows NT 97

Downloading files if your printer is connected to a

Novell Netware network 98

Downloading files if your printer is connected

through PhaserPort 99

Downloading files if your printer is connected to

Windows NT 99

Advanced Printing Features for Phaser 750 Printers 100

Previewing with 1st Page Preview 100

Requirements 100

Use 1st Page Preview 100

Reset the timeout 101

Automatic tray switching 101

Output Order 101

Output Order: Face Up 102

Output Order: Face Down 102

Combined User and Troubleshooting Manuals

Output Order hints 102

Intelligent Ready mode 102

Adjusting margins 103

Adjusting margins for a single-sided print 103

Adjusting margins for a duplex print 104

Adjusting Color Density 106

Calibrating Colors 106

Print and use the Color Reference Page 106

Adjust the colors 106

Calibrate for Paper 108

Color Sampler Charts for Phaser 750 Printers 109

Overview 109

Color charts 110

Printing a color sampler chart from the Phaser 750

printer’s front panel 111

Selecting a color correction and a print quality

mode 111

Printing a color sampler chart 111

Printing the desired colors from an application 111

Printing the color sampler charts with utility files 112

From a Macintosh 112

From a PC or workstation 112

Troubleshooting Phaser 750 Printers 113

Useful tools 113

Diagnostic Test Print 113

Color Density Samples and Color Reference Page

113

Printer CD-ROM 113

Windows driver help system 114

Color Connection 114

PhaserLink™ Software 114

Tektronix web site 114

Phaser 850 Color Printer

TekSMART™ Knowledge Base 115

Other online services 115

Internal Printer Pages 115

Front panel messages 117

Indicators 117

Messages 117

Maintaining print quality 119

Basic rules for troubleshooting 119

Print quality problems 120

Printing problems 131

Print quality hints 136

Media hints 137

Media handling 137

Double-sided printing 137

If your printer has an Automatic Duplex/Lower

Tray Assembly installed 137

Specialty media 137

Improving print speed 138

Printed colors are not what you expect 140

Printing PANTONE Colors 143

Using the Tektronix halftone screens 143

Selecting page sizes in Windows applications 144

Fonts printing incorrectly from Windows 145

Sharing the printer on a network 145

Driver, utility files, and front panel interactions

145

If the Apple Printer Utility does not work

(AppleTalk) 145

Startup Page prints even though it is disabled 146

PostScript printing errors 146

Enabling the PostScript error report 147

Error codes 148

Enabling and disabling the Startup Page 150

Enabling and disabling the Intelligent Ready feature

Combined User and Troubleshooting Manuals

151

Protected mode for the front panel menu 152

Macintosh utility files: 152

PC utility files: 152

Enabling and disabling SysStart Job execution 153

Macintosh users 153

PC and workstation users 154

Problems printing on labels 155

Labels are printed on the wrong side 155

Printing labels from Microsoft Word 155

Cleaning Phaser 750 Printers 156

Paper-pick rollers (a) 156

Paper-feed rollers (b) on the Lower Tray Assembly

156

Duplex Unit 156

Sensor 156

Cleaning the sensor 157

Cleaning other rollers 157

Supplies for Phaser 750 Printers 158

Coverage Examples 158

Toner Cartridges 159

Imaging Unit 160

Fuser 160

Fuser Roll and Cleaning Pad 161

Transfer Kit 161

Main Charge Grid 162

Supplies life information 162

Using the information on the Supplies Page 163

Regulatory Information for Phaser 750 Printers 164

Canadian EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility)

regulatory standards 164

Declaration of conformity 165

Phaser 850 Color Printer

for 220-230 VAC equipment 165

FCC Class B device 167

for 100-120 VAC equipment 167

Material Safety Data Sheets for Phaser 750 Printers 168

MSDS for Toner 169

Environmental Specifications

(Temperature/Humidity/Power) 171

Index 173

User Guide

Tektronix Supplies and Accessories

Note

Inside the printer, all handles, knobs, and other features that

the user interacts with are blue.

When the front panel prompts you that a supply is low or needs to be

replaced, make sure that you have replacements on hand. To order

supplies and accessories, contact your local dealer or visit the

Tektronix web site:

www.tek.com/Color_Printers/supplies/

0632-61

Toner

Cartridges

Toner

Door

Fuser

& Fuser

Roll

Front Panel

Display

Imaging Unit

& Main Charge

Grid

Front

Door

Supplies

Phaser 750 Color Printer

High Capacity Toner Cartridges

Item Part Number

Cyan

Magenta

Yellow

Black

016-1800-00

016-1801-00

016-1802-00

016-1803-00

Standard Toner Cartridges

Item Part Number

Cyan

Magenta

Yellow

Black

016-1804-00

016-1805-00

016-1806-00

016-1807-00

Main Change Grid

Item Part Number

Main Charge Grid 016-1665-00

33100-33

0236-44

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