Xerox Phaser 840 Documento

  

Transparency print quality 
poor.

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Use only Phaser 840 printer transparency media.

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Make sure that you have loaded transparencies correctly in the tray or manual feed slot; 

refer to page 16 for more information.

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Make sure that you have selected Standard as the print-quality mode; try setting 

Vivid Color as the color correction.

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Make sure that the switch on the side of the High-Capacity Paper/Transparency tray is 

set to Transparency.

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Make sure that you have selected in a supported printer driver either Transparency for 

the media tray or Manual Feed Transparency (for the manual feed slot).  Refer to 
“Loading Phaser 840 printer transparencies” on page 16.   

Print is wrinkled or rippled

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If your media is smooth, use a different type of media. 

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Use single-sided printing instead of double-sided printing.

The printer times out when 
connected to a parallel port

Windows users: Refer to the Microsoft Online Help for instructions to change the timeout 
for transmission retry.

The area of paper that the 
printer prints on is smaller 
than the media size

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Refer to “Margins and image areas” for more information.To maximize the image area, 

you  may have to adjust the margins in your application software.

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In your application check the setting for Image Size.

You have problems printing 
from a specific application

Get information and tips on printing from specific applications (such as QuarkXPress and 
PageMaker) from the Tektronix Color Printer web site and from HAL.  Refer to page 47 
and page 49 respectively.

Fonts print incorrectly in 
Windows

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Make sure that you have selected the correct printer feature set PPD, PostScript Printer 

Description) with your driver. 

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If you have downloaded fonts to your printer, or stored additional fonts on an internal or 

external hard drive, you may need to reinstall the fonts.

Text prints in 

Courier

 font

The font you have specified is not available.  The printer has 136 resident fonts.  Other 
fonts must be downloaded or available on a hard disk.  Refer to “Downloading fonts” on 
page 26.