User manual TEKTRONIX PHASER 600

[. . . ] WELCOME! This is the home page of the Phaser 600 Color Printer User Manual. See Tips on using this guide, or go immediately to the Contents. Phaser ® 600 Wide-Format Color Printer Tips on using this guide s Use the navigation buttons in Acrobat Reader to move through the document: 1 23 4 56 1 and 4 are the First Page and Last Page buttons. These buttons move to the first or last page of a document. 2 and 3 are the Previous Page and Next Page buttons. These buttons move the document backward or forward one page at a time. 5 and 6 are the Go Back and Go Forward buttons. [. . . ] Click the Phaser 600 GX printer driver icon on the left side of the Chooser. (If the printer driver icon does not appear, Restart your Macintosh, and repeat the printer driver installation procedure; also, check the cable connections on your computer and printer. ) 369 CREATING A DESKTOP PRINTER 3 In the Connect via field's pop-up menu, select your printer's communication method: s The AppleTalk option is the standard network connection. The Servers option is used to select a shared desktop printer; see Setting up a shared printer for details. s 4 Click on your Phaser 600 printer in the list of printers on the right side of the Chooser. An icon of the printer appears on the desktop with the same name as the printer selected in the Chooser. Close the Chooser by clicking its close box. 5 6 370 SETTING UP UNIQUE DESKTOP PRINTERS Setting up unique desktop printers You can create more than one desktop printer of the same physical printer. Each desktop printer can be set up with different print modes or options and given a descriptive name. This feature makes it easy to print to a specific printer with the options you want already selected. In the illustration below, a desktop printer has been created of a Phaser 600 printer with the Vivid Color color correction and the Paper media type selections. 1 2 Create a desktop printer; see Creating a desktop printer for instructions. The Printing menu appears in the menu bar at the top of the Macintosh screen. Use the Printer Driver Defaults command in the Printing menu to select options for desktop printers; see Selecting printing options for details. To rename the desktop printer, highlight the icon on the desktop and type a new name. Renaming a desktop printer has no effect on the printer's name in the Chooser. 3 4 371 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Printing with a desktop printer If you are using QuickDraw GX applications, do one of the following: s s Select any desktop printer in the Print dialog box. The application corresponding to the document opens, prints the document, and then quits. If you are using non-QuickDraw GX applications, do one of the following: s Print to the default desktop printer with the Print command from the File menu. The application corresponding to the document opens, displays the Print dialog box, and waits for you to click Print. After printing the document, the application quits. s 372 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Using the Printing menu Most of the commands in the Printing menu are standard QuickDraw GX driver commands, and are documented by Apple (see the Macintosh Guide on-line document for details). The last group of commands in this menu are printer-specific. 373 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Control printing Use the Start Print Queue and Stop Print Queue commands in the Printing menu to control the print queues on individual desktop printers. From the Printing menu, select either Start Print Queue or Stop Print Queue. 374 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Designating a default desktop printer 1 2 Select (highlight) a desktop printer icon. A check-mark appears next to the command, and a bold outline appears around the desktop printer's icon. 375 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Using printing extensions Use the Extension Setup command in the Printing menu to specify which third-party printing extensions you want enabled for the currently selected desktop printer. Click Save. 376 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Selecting printing options Use the Printer Driver Defaults command in the Printing menu to set default options for the selected desktop printer. This dialog box includes such options as the color corrections and print quality modes. NOTE The printer defaults dialog box is also available through the Print command in the File menu for QuickDraw GX applications. 377 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Phaser 600 Defaults Color Correction Options s s s None Vivid Color Simulate Display Standard None Never Never None 90 Degrees On On On On On s s s s s s s s SWOP Press Euroscale Press Commercial Press Enhanced Cold After Each Job After Each Job 180 Degrees Off Off Off Off Off s s s SNAP Press Monochrome Use Printer Setting Print Quality Fusing Advance Media Cut Media Page Rotation Image Smoothing Color Control Strip Print Preview Mirror Print Page Centering Display Manual Feed Dialogs s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Hot After Each Page After Each Page 270 Degrees s s s s s Check box on to see a dialog box confirming each page you want to print with manual feed. If you check this box on, then go to the Print dialog box to select Use Manual Feed. 378 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Downloading printer utilities Use the Printer Utilities command in the Printing menu to download printer utility files to the selected desktop printer. [. . . ] Adobe BrilliantTM Screens technology is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Apple®, LaserWriter®, LocalTalk®, Macintosh®, and TrueType2® are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Incorporated. TimesTM, HelveticaTM, and PalatinoTM are trademarks of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its subsidiaries. ITC Avant Guard Gothic, ITC Bookman, ITC Zapf Chancery and ITC Zapf Dingbats are registered trademarks of International Typeface Corporation. 762 COPYRIGHTS/TRADEMARKS MS-DOS® and Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ]