• Starting the PhaserPrint plug-in

• Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box

1. If you don't already have a Phaser 600 printer selected as the default printer, do the following:
   • Macintsoh: Open the Chooser and select a PostScript driver (such as the Apple LaserWriter 8) and your Phaser 600 printer, or select an appropriate QuickDraw GX desktop printer. The PhaserPrint software works like a printer driver, and prints to the printer you selected in the Chooser.

   • Windows: Select your printer and port within the PhaserPrint software as described later in these intructions.

2. Open Photoshop and the file you wish to print.

3. Select an image mode supported by PhaserPrint software from Photoshop's Mode menu. If you select a mode not listed here, you cannot use PhaserPrint.
   • Bitmap
   • Grayscale
   • Indexed Color
   • RGB Color
   • CMYK Color
   • Lab Color

4. From the File menu, highlight Export to see the pop-up menu. Select PhaserPrint from the list; the PhaserPrint dialog box appears.

5. In the Printer field, select Phaser 600.

Number of copies Print using (Macintosh) Print using (Windows) Printer model Media size Color correction Quality Fusing Advance media Cut media Page rotation Rendering intent Compress image data Fast preview Manual feed Print preview	Mirror print Center page No margins Image smoothing Color control strip Stylized representation of the page Scaling an image Landscape orientation Center images Replicate images Image size Image separation Number of images Image layout Media size Show color preview of image

Number of copies

Print using (Macintosh)

• AppleTalk: This option prints the image to the printer currently selected in the Chooser. When you select this option, The Printer model field displays the name of the printer currently selected in the Chooser. If the selected printer is not a PostScript printer, this option is unavailable (grayed-out).

• PostScript file: This option lets you save an image to disk as a PostScript Level 2 file. When you click the Save button, another dialog box appears allowing you to choose a new or existing file for saving the PostScript code. Also, when you select this option, the File format pop-up menu becomes available. This pop-up menu has two options: ASCII base-85 and Binary.
  • ASCII base-85. This option encodes image data using an ASCII-85 filter during file output, making the resulting PostScript file portable so it can be downloaded through interface ports that don't support binary data. Note that the file may be up to 25% larger.

  • Binary. This option outputs image data in binary format.

• The Printer model pop-up menu lists the printers supported by the PhaserPrint software.

• Select your printer model (Phaser 600) so that PhaserPrint can display the correct options for that printer.

• Select a paper size from this pop-up menu. See Page size, print area, and margins for a list of media sizes.

• Paper sizes are printer-specific. Select your printer in the Printer model field before selecting a paper size.

• Select from the options in the pop-up menu.

• If Lab is the selected Mode in Photoshop, then the Color Corrections are not available.

• If RGB is the selected Mode in Photoshop, then the Calibrated RGB option is also available.

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  Note: Calibrated RGB and Lab modes take longer to print than other modes because the printer must convert CIE colors to RGB or CMYK colors for printing.

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• See Color corrections - making the best selection for details on the following color corrections:

  None Vivid Color Simulate Display SNAP Press	SWOP Press Euroscale Press Commercial Press	Monochrome Use Printer Setting Calibrated RGB*

  * RGB mode images are printed using the Calibrated RGB color space as determined by Photoshop's Monitor Setup in order to match the currently selected monitor's colors to the printer's colors. This option is unavailable if the image is not RGB.

• Select from the options in the pop-up menu.

• See Print quality modes for details on the following print quality modes:
  • Standard

  • Enhanced

• Select from the options in the pop-up menu.

• The Fusing options work on any media type. The default setting is Cold.
  • None: Prints may look lighter, with more white paper visible around the printed dots. The inks may be less durable if they are not fused.

  • Cold: Flattens the dots, adding dot gain, and making colors look darker. Cold fusing also makes printed colors more resistant to flaking. This mode is optimized for use with the TekColor Color Correction options.

  • Hot: Softens the wax and flattens the printed dots. On roll media, Hot overrides the Advance Media setting, and always adds 8.875 inches of blank paper after each page printed.

• Select from the options in the pop-up menu.

• The Advance Media feature is for use on roll media only. The amount the media is advanced is measured in points; the default is 72 points (one inch). This option is not available if Hot Fusing is selected.
  • Never: Prints one page after another without adding extra space between the pages.

  • After Each Job: Advances the media a specified distance only after the last page of a job is printed.

  • After Each Page: Advances the media a specified distance after each page printed.

• To change the distance or amount the media is advanced, use the PostScript utility file shipped on the printer's CD-ROM or diskettes.

• Select from the options in the pop-up menu.

• This feature is for use with roll media only.
  • Never: No cut is made after prints are finished.

  • After Each Job: The media is cut only after an entire job is printed.

  • After Each Page: The media is cut after each page is printed. This is the default mode.

• Select from the options in the pop-up menu.

• This option rotates the page, or image, on the media by the amount specified.
  • 90 Degrees: Rotates the image left, or counter-clockwise,
    by 90 degrees.

  • 180 Degrees: Rotates the image left, or counter-clockwise,
    by 180 degrees. The image is turned up-side down.

  • 270 Degrees: Rotates the image left, or counter-clockwise,
    by 270 degrees.

  • None: The image is not rotated. This is the default selection.

Rendering intent

• This option is available in the following cases:
  • If the Mode in Photoshop is RGB, and you select Calibrated RGB as the Color Correction in PhaserPrint.

  • If the Mode in Photoshop is Lab.

• Select from the options in the pop-up menu. See Using the color rendering intents for details on the following rendering intents:
  • Absolute Colorimetric

  • Relative Colorimetric

  • Saturation

  • Perceptual

  • Use Printer Setting (Uses the printer's default setting.)

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    Note: Calibrated RGB and Lab modes take longer to print than other modes because the printer must convert CIE colors to RGB or CMYK colors for printing.

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• Check the box either on or off.

• Use this option to compress image data so less data needs to be sent to the printer.

• This option is useful if your network connection is slow, for example, if you are connected to a very busy network or if you are using LocalTalk or a parallel port. For fast networks, printing may be faster without using this option.

• The default for this option is on.

• Check the box either on or off.

• This option produces a quick print of your image with slightly reduced image quality.

• This option reflects the color correction you selected for printing your image.

• For the fastest printing, use the None color correction option.

• The default for this option is off.

• Check the box either on or off.

• Check this box on when you are using manually fed media.

• This option uses the current settings for Media size, Landscape orientation, and Quality.

• The default is off.

• This option must be reselected each time you want to print on manually fed media.

• Check the box either on or off.

• The Print Preview option is available only with the printer's Extended Features.

• This option lets you print a small "thumbnail" version of the first page of your print job.

• The image is reduced by one-fifth in both height and width, or to B-size
  (11 x 17 inches), whichever is smaller.

• This preview option saves on the amount of media and the print time that would normally be required for printing the same image at full size.

• This option is best suited for roll media, but can also be used with cut-sheet media.

• The printable area is indicated around the reduced image with dashed black lines, showing page, or image, placement.

• Once the preview image is printed, the front panel displays the Print Preview message, with a choice of three buttons. There is a default timeout of 15 minutes while the printer waits for you to press one of the buttons. If the time runs out before a button is pressed, the job is cancelled and the printer is returned to the ready state.
  • Pressing Cancel ends the Print Preview, returning the printer to the ready state.

  • Pressing Pause enters a Pause menu, allowing you to print the reduced image at a different scale.

  • Pressing Print prints the full size image and any subsequent pages of the print job.

• The default for this option is off.

• Check the box either on or off.

• This option inverts an image left-to-right before printing.

• The default selection is off.

• Check the box either on or off:
  • On:

    For roll media, the page, or image, is centered on the media from side-to-side.

    For cut-sheet media, the image is centered from side-to-side and from top-to-bottom.

  • Off:

    Uses the default setting in the printer, either None or a setting made with a PostScript utility file shipped on the printer's CD-ROM.

• The default for this option is off.

• Check the box either on or off.

• Check this box on to specify zero margins for the current page size.

• Use this option with roll media.

• The default is off.

• Check the box either on or off.

• The Image Smoothing option produces smooth color detail when printing bitmapped images.

• This option is useful when bitmapped images are enlarged to print on large media.

• This option improves some low resolution images by averaging between the pixels.

• The default for this option is off.

• Check this option either on or off to print a band of colors along the bottom edge of your prints. The default is off.
  • The colors are the printer's 8 primary and secondary colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, black, red (magenta and yellow), green (cyan and yellow), blue (cyan and magenta), and black (cyan, magenta, and yellow).

  • The colors are printed at 100 percent saturation or brightness, and also at 50 percent.

  • The colors reflect the current color correction or PhaserMatch custom profile selected in the driver.

• The printed band also includes information about the file, such as File (file name), Color Profile (color correction or PhaserMatch custom profile), and the Date/Time of printing.

• Use this option to check the consistency of printed colors between prints made on the same printer, or between prints made on more than one of the same type or model of printer.

• The area in the lower left of the dialog box is a stylized representation of the page as it would look when printed using the current selections in the Scale to fit, Printer model, Media size, Landscape orientation, Replicate images, Center images, and Image separation options. When you change any of these selections, the representation of the page is redrawn to reflect the new selection.

• If Show color preview of image is on, an approximate color image is displayed.

• Scale to fit
  • Click this check box to scale the image to the largest size that will fit the image area of the currently selected page size or orientation.

  • This option automatically updates the value in the Scale field.

• Scale
  • Type in the percentage the image should be scaled, from 10 percent to 2000 percent.

  • Use this option with the Replicate images option to produce multiple copies of an image on a single page.

• Alert message

  The following message appears in the dialog box whenever a scaled image will not fit within the image area of the currently selected page size or orientation option:

  Image clipping will occur.

• Check this box to print the image horizontally (landscape) on the page. Leave this box unchecked to print the image vertically (portrait) on the page.

• Refer to the stylized representation of the page, in the lower left corner of the dialog box, to see how your selection will look when printed.

• Check this box to center the image in the image area of the page.

• If this box is not checked, the lower left corner of the image is aligned with the lower left corner of the printable area of the page.

• If the Center images box is checked and the Replicate images box is checked, the set of replicated images are centered in the image area of the page.

• Check this box to fill the image area of the page with as many copies of the image as will fit.

• The size of each replicated image is determined by the setting in the Scale text box.

• If the size of each replicated image (shown as black rectangles in the stylized representation of the page) is too small to display, the total image area of the printed page is shown as a single gray rectangle.

• This field reflects the dimensions, in inches or millimeters, of the image.

• If the value in the Scale box is out-of-range, the image dimensions are displayed with question marks.

• This option is only available if the Replicate images box is checked.

• Type in an amount, in inches or millimeters, to specify the amount of separation between each replicated image.

• A larger amount reduces the number of images that can be printed at one time.

• The minimum allowed separation value is 0 inches.

• The maximum separation value is 4 inches (or 100 mm).

• The default separation value is 0.125 (one-eighth) inches (or 3.175 mm).

• Valid characters for this field are 0 to 9 and a period (or decimal point).

• As you type in a value, the stylized representation of the page, and the Number of images and Image layout values, are dynamically updated. If the value entered in the Image separation field is out-of-range, the values in these other fields are replaced by question marks, and no images are shown in the stylized representation of the page. If the value is out-of-range, and you click the Print or Save button, the following alert is displayed:
  The value for Image separation is out of range. It will be
  replaced with the closest allowed value.

• This field displays the number of scaled images that will fit in the image area of the currently selected Media size and Landscape orientation options.

• The Number of images reflects the current Image separation value.

• If the Replicate images box is not checked, this number is set to 1.

• If either of the Scale or Image separation values are out-of-range, a question mark is displayed.

• This field shows how the scaled images will fit horizontally and vertically in the image area of the currently selected Media and Landscape orientation options.

• The Image layout reflects the current Image separation value.

• If the Replicate images box is not checked, this number is set to 1 x 1.

• If either of the Scale or Image separation values are out-of-range, question marks are displayed.

• This field reflects the dimensions, in inches or millimeters, of the selected media size.

• This option displays an approximate color image, rather than a black box, in the Stylized representation of the page field.

• This option is set to off each time you start the PhaserPrint plug-in.