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. [. . . ] 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. 1 2 Select (highlight) a desktop printer icon. 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. From the Printing menu, select Set Default Printer. 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. By default, all printing extensions are enabled. 1 2 3 4 Select (highlight) a desktop printer icon. Select Extension Setup from the Printing menu. 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. This command cannot be used on a shared printer, except by the Macintosh hosting the shared printer. 1 2 3 Select (highlight) a desktop printer icon. Select Printer Utilities from the Printing menu. In the Utility pop-up menu, select the utility you want downloaded to the printer, then click OK. See Printer utilities for a list of utilities available in this dialog box. If you see an alert message, click OK or Cancel as desired. 4 379 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Printer utilities The following utilities can be downloaded to the printer with the Printer Utilities command from the Printing menu. s s s s s s s Print Startup Page Print Configuration Page Print CMYK Sampler Print RGB Sampler Print HSB Sampler Print Fonts Sampler Print PANTONE Sampler 380 PRINTING WITH A DESKTOP PRINTER Download PostScript files Use the Send PostScript File command in the Printing menu to download PostScript files to the selected desktop printer. For example, use this command to download the utility files included on the CD-ROM and diskettes shipped with the printer. This command cannot be used on a shared printer, except by the Macintosh hosting the shared printer. 1 2 3 4 Select (highlight) a desktop printer icon. Select Send PostScript File from the Printing menu. [. . . ] Sun®, Sun Microsystems®, and Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation® are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Incorporated. The printer contains an implementation of the LZW algorithm licensed under U. S. Ethernet® is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation. FTP® Software is a registered trademark of FTP Software, Incorporated. 763 COPYRIGHTS/TRADEMARKS PANTONE® Colors generated by the Phaser 600 Color Printer are four- and/or three-color process simulations and may not match PANTONE-identified solid color standards. [. . . ]