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Phaser 8400
Color Printer
Reference Guide
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Copyright © 2003, Xerox Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States. Contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission of Xerox Corporation. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms of matters of copyrightable materials and information now allowed by statutory or judicial law or hereinafter granted, including without limitation, material generated from the software programs which are display
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Contents 1 Features Printer Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Printer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Available Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20 Types of Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20 Resident Printer Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20 Viewing a List of Resident Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Labels, Business and Index Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-35 Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-35 Printing Labels in Tray 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36 Printing Labels in Tray 2, 3, or 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Contents Windows NT 4.x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21 Preliminary Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21 Quick CD-ROM Install Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-21 Other Methods of Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-
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Contents Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20 Adding Ink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20 Emptying the Waste Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23 Replacing the Maintenance Kit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Phaser® 8400 Color Printer Features This section includes: ■ "Printer Tour" on page 1-2 ■ "Front Panel" on page 1-7 ■ "Printer Drivers" on page 1-10 ■ "Managing Your Printer" on page 1-12 ■ "Printer Settings" on page 1-14 ■ "Fonts" on page 1-20 ■ "Registering Your Printer" on page 1-24 Copyright © 2003 Xerox Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 1-1
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Phaser® 8400 Color Printer Printer Tour This topic includes: ■ "Printer Features" on page 1-2 ■ "Available Configurations" on page 1-3 ■ "Front View" on page 1-4 ■ "Side View" on page 1-4 ■ "Back View" on page 1-4 ■ "Top View" on page 1-5 ■ "Printer Options and Upgrades" on page 1-5 ■ "Color" on page 1-6 ■ "Resources" on page 1-6 Printer Features The Phaser 8400 Color Printer embodies many features to meet your printing needs: ■ Great performance and superior print quality ■ 24 pages per minute
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Printer Tour Available Configurations The Phaser 8400 Color Printer has five configurations: Features Printer Configuration 8400B 8400BD 8400N 8400DP 8400DX Maximum Print Speed 24 24 24 24 24 Memory (Mbytes) 128 256 128 256 256 Up to 512 Mbytes Optional Hard Drive No Optional Optional Optional Standard PostScript Fonts Yes Y es Yes Y es Yes PCL Fonts Yes Y es Yes Y es Yes Japanese Fonts* Optional Optional Optional Optional Yes Job Pipelining No Yes No Y es Yes Automatic 2-sided Printing Option
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Printer Tour Front View 1. Optional 525-Sheet Tray 4 8 9 10 7 2. Optional 525-Sheet Tray 3 6 5 3. Standard 525-Sheet Tray 2 4. 100-Sheet Multi-Purpose Tray 1 4 5. Front panel 11 6. Exit cover release 3 7. Front cover release 12 2 8. Exit cover 1 9. Ink loader/Top cover 10. Legal/A4 output tray extension 11. Interface cover 8400-044 12. Side door Side View 1. Maintenance kit 1 2 3 4 5 2. Waste tray 3. Power cord connection 6 4. Power switch 7 5. Parallel cable connection 6. USB connection 8 7. Co
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Printer Tour Top View 1. Ink 2. Ink bin 1 1 2 3 4 2 8400-087 Printer Options and Upgrades Options and upgrades are available for the Phaser 8400 printer. Options ■ Two RAM slots, supporting 128 Mbytes and 256 Mbytes memory cards ■ Two 525-Sheet Feeders ■ Internal hard drive Upgrades ■ Phaser 8400B to 8400BD ■ Phaser 8400B to 8400N ■ Phaser 8400N to 8400DP ■ Phaser 8400N to 8400DX ■ Phaser 8400DP to 8400DX For more information on printer options and upgrades, go to www.xerox.com/office/8400suppl
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Printer Tour Color Xerox Phaser color printers embody 20 years of printing experience. While different models are optimized for tasks, such as fast, easy, office printing or complex, large format graphic arts applications, all Phaser color printers share important characteristics that contribute to the Xerox reputation for color image quality. Solid ink printers provide superior color print quality. This is achieved by the unique printing process of solid ink technology, as well as the Phase
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Phaser® 8400 Color Printer Front Panel This topic includes: ■ "Front Panel Features" on page 1-7 ■ "Front Panel Layout" on page 1-7 ■ "Error and Warning Messages" on page 1-8 ■ "Print Icon" on page 1-9 ■ "Menu Map" on page 1-9 ■ "Information Pages" on page 1-9 Front Panel Features The front panel: ■ Displays the printer’s operating status (for example, Printing, Ready to Print, printer errors and warnings). ■ Prompts you to load paper, replace supplies, and clear jams. ■ Enables you to access t
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Front Panel 1. Status Indicator LED: 1 3 5 Blinking green = Printer is busy or in Standby mode Phaser 8400 Steady green = Ready to print or Power READY TO PRINT Information Walk-Up Features Saver mode Printer Setup Troubleshooting Blinking yellow = Warning, continues to print 2 4 6 7 8 Blinking red = Error condition 8400-048 Steady red = Startup sequence 2. Graphic display shows status messages and menus. 3. Cancel button Cancels the current print job. 4. Back button Returns to the previou
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Front Panel Print Icon There are a number of information pages accessible through the front panel. When the print icon appears before a title on the front panel display, press the OK button to print that page. Menu Map The “Menu Map” is a visual representation of the front panel settings and information pages. To print the “Menu Map”: 1. At the printer’s front panel, select Information, then press the OK button. 2. Select Menu Map, then press the OK button to print. Information Pages Your pri
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Phaser® 8400 Color Printer Printer Drivers This topic includes: ■ "Available Printer Drivers" on page 1-10 ■ "Printer Driver Features" on page 1-11 Printer drivers enable your computer and printer to communicate and provide access to your printer features. Xerox makes driver installation easy with its Walk-Up Technology. For more information about printer drivers, see the video at www.xerox.com/office/drivers. Available Printer Drivers Xerox provides drivers for a variety of page description l
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Printer Drivers Printer Driver Features The following table displays the Xerox driver features that are available with specific operating systems. Windows, Windows Windows 2000, XP, Macintosh Macintosh Feature 98, Me NT4 OS 9.x OS 10.x Server 2003 Separation Pages ● ● ● ● ● Cover Pages ● ● ● ● ● Pages per sheet ● ● ● ● ● Booklet ● ●● -- Collation ■■ ■ ■ ■ Image Smoothing ● ● ● ● ● Scaling ● ● ● ● ● Mirror Images ● ● ●● - Watermarks ● - ● -- Negative Images ● - - ● - Job Completion Notifica
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Phaser® 8400 Color Printer Managing Your Printer This topic includes: ■ "Printer’s IP Address" on page 1-12 ■ "CentreWare Internet Services (IS)" on page 1-12 ■ "PhaserSMART" on page 1-13 ■ "PrintingScout" on page 1-13 Note The information in this section applies only to network printers. There are a number of resources available to help you get the best quality prints from your printer. Printer’s IP Address You need your printer’s IP address if you change printer settings through CentreWare IS
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Managing Your Printer PhaserSMART PhaserSMART Technical Support is an automated, Internet-based support system. Use your default web browser to send diagnostic information from your printer to our web site for analysis. PhaserSMART Technical Support examines the information, diagnoses the problem, and proposes a solution. If the problem is not resolved with the solution, PhaserSMART Technical Support assists you in opening a Service Request with Xerox Customer Support. Launching PhaserSMART
