Apple 300 manual

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Radio and television inter ference v P reface About Y our P ersonal LaserW riter 300 vii Energy conservation mode vii T r ue T ype fonts viii GrayShare viii Sharing your printer viii Printing grayscale viii Chapter 1 Setting Up Y our Printer 1 Choosing a location for the printer 1 Carr ying the P ersonal L aserW riter 300 2 Important safety instruc[...]

Printing on both sides of a page 21 Sharing your printer with other users 21 Using a shared printer connected to another Macintosh 23 Controlling the use of your printer by others 24 Chapter 4 T ips and T roubleshooting 25 Safety precautions 25 Checking the printer ’s status lights 27 Solving some common problems 28 About paper 37 About fonts 38 [...]

Important This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device in accordance with the specifications in Part 15 of FCC rules. See instr uctions if interference to radio or television reception is suspected. Radio and television interference The equipment described in this manual generates, uses, and can ra[...]

S Important: Changes or modifications to this product not authorized by Apple Computer , Inc., could void the FCC Certification and negate your authority to operate the product. This product was tested for FCC compliance under conditions that included the use of shielded cables and connectors between system components. It is important that you use [...]

About Y our P ersonal L aserW riter 300 The P ersonal L aserW riter 300 includes many features designed to produce high-quality text and graphics and deliver the perfor mance of higher -priced laser printers. This preface describes the printer ’s main features: m Energ y conservation mode maintains your printer in a standby state that conserves e[...]

T r ue T ype fonts All fonts supplied with the L aserW riter are T rue T ype fonts. T r ue T ype is a font technology from Apple Computer that produces sharp characters at any size on the screen or printer . The disks provided with your L aserW riter contain many widely used font families, including ITC A vant Garde ® , IT C Bookman ® , Courier ,[...]

Setting Up Y our Printer This chapter tells you how to connect the printer to your computer and install the printer software. S Important: Do not plug the printer in at this time. After you connect the printer to your computer , and install the printer software, you should continue with Chapter 2, “ Adding T oner and Paper .” After you add the [...]

Carr ying the P ersonal LaserW riter 300 T o carr y the Personal LaserW riter 300, hold it firmly and level with both hands. Holding the printer in positions other than the one shown may cause an accident. Place the L aserW riter on the flat, stable sur face you have chosen. s W arning: Never lif t the L aserW riter by the front and rear of the cas[...]

Connecting the printer to a Macintosh T o connect the printer , you need an Apple Peripheral-8 cable, part number M0197. The Apple P eripheral-8 cable has special shielding to reduce the possibility of causing interference to radios, television sets, and other electronic devices. If you do not have an Apple P eripheral-8 cable, you can obtain one f[...]

Installing the printer software Before you can print, you may need to install the software from the disks that came with your printer . T o protect the disks, it is a good practice to lock them before use. See your Macintosh User ’s Guide for information on locking floppy disks. v Is your software already installed? Some Macintosh computers come [...]

Installation Before you install the printer software, quit any application programs that may be open. If you have virus protection sof tware, turn it off. Then follow these steps: 1. Insert the LaserW riter 300 Install disk and open the disk icon. A window appears, showing the contents of the disk. 2. Drag the T eachT ext icon to your hard disk. If[...]

5. Make sure that the disk indicated on the scr een is the one on which you want to install printer sof twar e. If the wrong disk name appears, click Switch Disk until the correct name appears. 6. Click Install. If any of your system’s application programs are open, a message appears warning you that you must quit the applications before installi[...]

Adding T oner and Paper This chapter tells you how to install a toner cartridge into the printer and load paper into a cassette. S Important: If you are setting up your P ersonal LaserW riter 300 for the first time, please add toner and paper before you plug your printer into an outlet. Otherwise, a paper jam may occur when your printer starts up. [...]

Installing or changing a toner cartridge T oner is the powdered ink that produces the image on the paper . F ollow these steps to install a toner cartridge into the printer . 1. Open the printer access door . 2. If you are r eplacing a used cartridge, remove the old cartridge and set it aside. 3. Unpack the new toner cartridge and gently rock it to[...]

4. Pull the tab to remove the tape. s W arning: Be sure to pull the tape in the direction shown. Don ’t pull it too quickly or at too sharp an angle; other wise, the tape may break. s 5. Insert the cartridge into the printer . Line up the markings on the sides of the cartridge with the arrows in the printer . 6. W ith both hands, pr ess down gent[...]

Plugging in the printer A power cord is supplied with your printer . Be sure the power cord is within easy reach, in case you want to unplug the printer . When you plug the power cord into an outlet, the Ready/In Use light comes on. s W arning: The Personal LaserW riter 300 is equipped with a three-wire grounding plug—a plug that has a third (gro[...]

Loading the paper cassette The universal paper cassette supplied with your printer holds up to 100 sheets of copier -weight bond paper . The paper size can be U.S. Letter , A4, U.S. L egal, or Executive. F or good advice on paper quality , see Chapter 4, “Tips and T roubleshooting.” T o load the paper cassette: 1. T ake the cassette out of the [...]

3. Insert a stack of paper that fits below the top edge of the paper bracket inside the cassette. 4. Slide the cassette into the printer . T o remove the cassette to refill it, grasp it and pull firmly straight out. Push firmly to make sure the cassette is in place. Make sure paper fits under the corner brackets. Insert paper this end first. [...]

Loading 3-hole punched paper F ollow the instructions for loading ordinar y paper , and position the sheets as shown below . Loading letterhead paper F ollow the instructions for loading ordinar y paper , and position the sheets as shown below . Insert letterhead paper face down with the top of the page at this end of the cassette. The holes sho[...]

Loading legal-size paper F ollow the instructions for loading ordinar y paper , adjusting the sliding backstop to accommodate legal-size paper . Slide the cassette firmly into the printer . The cassette and paper will extend out the back of the printer . 14 Chapter 2: Adding T oner and Paper[...]

Printing This chapter explains how to print documents on a P ersonal L aserW riter 300 connected to your own Macintosh, to share the printer with other users on a network, and to use shared printers connected to other computers on the network. More printing instructions can be found in the manuals for your applications, such as word processing prog[...]

Choosing face-down or face-up deliver y Y ou can select either face-down or face-up paper deliver y with your P ersonal L aserW riter 300, depending on the type of paper you are using. When you choose face-down deliver y, paper comes out into the deliver y tray on top of the printer , face down and stacked in order . The deliver y tray can hold at [...]

Using the Chooser the first time you print Y ou use the Chooser desk accessor y to tell the Macintosh where to send print jobs. In the Chooser , you choose the port to which you connected the P ersonal L aserW riter 300, and can also choose among printers connected to your network, if any . S Important: Once you choose the printer in the Chooser , [...]

Defining the page setup The Page Setup command is found in the File menu of nearly all Macintosh programs. Depending on the program you are using, some of the options in this dialog box may change. Y ou need to choose Page Setup only if you want to change settings. 18 Chapter 3: Printing Click here to reduce the image by 4%. This makes the printed [...]

P rinting a document The P ersonal L aserW riter 300 prints your document using the cassette or manual feed. See the next section for instructions if you choose Manual F eed as the paper source. 1. Open the document you want to print or select its icon in the Macintosh Finder . 2. Choose Print from the File menu. 3. Choose the appropriate settings [...]

P rinting paper or envelopes with the manual feed slot If you want to use paper that is different from the paper in the cassette, you can use the manual feed slot to insert sheets one at a time as the document is printed. Y ou can also use this slot to print on envelopes and other nonstandard paper sizes. 1. Open the document you want to print or s[...]

P rinting on both sides of a page F ollow these steps to print a document using both sides of the paper . 1. Print the first side of the page using manual feed or the paper cassette. 2. T ake out the printed sheet, tur n it over , and print the second side using manual feed, inserting the sheet as shown here. Always use manual feed for printing the[...]

3. Make Apple T alk active if it is not already active. 4. Click Setup. 5. Click Share this Printer and enter the options for the shared printer and in the Setup dialog box. Background printing is automatically turned on when a printer is shared. F or details, see the Print Monitor instructions in your Macintosh User ’s Guide . 6. Click OK. 7. Cl[...]

Using a shared printer connected to another Macintosh T o print on a shared P ersonal L aserW riter 300, network users must have the L aserW riter 300 driver installed on their computers, Apple T alk must be active, and the shared printer and Macintosh must be turned on. Each user wanting to use the shared printer should use the L aserW riter 300 i[...]

Controlling the use of your printer by others After you tur n on the sharing feature, you still have complete control over the shared printer: m Y ou can turn sharing on or off at any time. m Y ou can type a password in the Sharing Setup dialog box so only those who know the password can use your printer . m Y ou can use the Print Monitor program i[...]

Tips and T roubleshooting This chapter provides solutions to printing problems you may encounter while using your printer . s W arning: If you have a problem with your printer and nothing presented in this chapter solves it, see the service and support information that came with your printer or computer . If you attempt to repair the printer yourse[...]

m Don ’t open the dr um-protection shutter on the toner cartridge. m Be sure the power cord is within easy reach, should you want to unplug the printer at any time. Since the P ersonal L aserW riter 300 has no power switch, unplugging it is the only way to turn it off. m Never tr y to manually defeat the interlock switches inside the printer . S [...]

Checking the printer ’s status lights Always check the status lights first when a printing problem occurs. These often tell you the cause of the problem. m The Ready/In Use light should glow steadily whenever the printer is on, and blink when it is printing. m The Paper Out light is on only when there is no paper in the cassette, or the printer i[...]

Solving some common problems The Chooser doesn ’t show the L aserW riter 300 icon If the L aserW riter 300 icon is missing from the box that identifies different printer types, you need to install the printer software from the disks that came with your printer . T o install the software, follow the instr uctions in “Installing the Printer Softw[...]

P rinting takes a long time Printing may be slow on pages containing complex graphics or pages printed using landscape (horizontal) orientation. The processing speed of your computer and the amount of memor y it has directly affect printing time. A faster computer or more memor y results in faster printing. The printer won ’t print a particular p[...]

T ype looks jagged or some text changes to the Geneva font The most likely cause of this problem is that you are using a non- T r ue T ype font. L aserW riter 300 printers use two kinds of fonts: outline fonts and bitmapped fonts. T r ue T ype fonts are outline fonts. Each character in an outline font is produced by instructions that describe its s[...]

2. L ook in the list of fonts for the font you wish to use. If it is a T r ue T ype font, its icon will look something like this: If it is a non-T r ue T ype font, its icon will look like this: If you are using System 6, you will see a list of font names in the F ont-DA Mover . If the font name has a number next to it, then it is a non-T r ue T ype[...]

The printer prints on only part of the paper Make sure you have selected the appropriate paper size in the Page Setup dialog box. Check the adjustment of the sliding backstop in the paper cassette to make sure it is correct for your paper size. See “Loading the Paper Cassette” in Chapter 2. P aper is jammed T o avoid paper jams, mak e sure the [...]

If the Paper Jam status light is on, follow these steps: 1. Remove the paper cassette. Be sure the paper is loaded correctly in the paper cassette. The stack of paper should fit under all the corner brackets. With the paper cassette removed, look inside the printer and remove any jammed sheets you see. 2. Open the printer and remove the cartridge. [...]

3. Open the printer ’s back door as shown below. Pr ess the paper release lever and pull the jammed sheet out through the front. This type of jam is often caused by an inter r uption in printing. 4. If the paper is wrapped around the roller , remove it as shown below . Press the paper release lever. 34 Chapter 4: Tips and T roubleshooting[...]

P aper feeds improperly If paper tears, gets skewed, or comes through the printer crumpled, it may not be entering the printer properly. Remove any jammed sheets from inside the printer . Remove the paper cassette, turn the stack of paper over , and replace the cassette (most paper has one side that prints better). It may also help to fan the edge [...]

T oner stains appear on printed pages If the printed pages are not clean, there may be a buildup of toner on the printing rollers. If stains appear on the backs of printed pages, you may have printed an image that is larger than the paper , causing toner to be deposited in the paper path. T o clean the rollers, print several blank pages until the s[...]

About paper Many problems, such as toner smearing, paper curling, or paper feeding improperly , can be caused by the paper you are using. T o assure good results, use only paper , envelopes, and transparencies that are manufactured for use with laser printers and photocopy machines. Make sure any paper you use is free of tears, wrinkles, dust, and [...]

About fonts The disks provided with your L aserW riter contain fonts from the most widely used font families. F ont families (also called typefaces) can be classified into two groups: serif and sans serif . The small accents at the ends of the strokes of the letters are serifs. F onts that do not have these accents are “sans” serifs. How to use[...]

Use restraint when choosing fonts A good rule of thumb to use when choosing fonts for your documents is: Avoid using more than two font families on the same page. It is fine to use several sizes and styles (such as bold or italic) of the same font family on the same page. Using too many font families on the same page gives your document a “ransom[...]

Be careful setting alignment and columns Properly aligning your text can enhance or detract from your document’s readability . One of the most common mistakes is to set a document in many narrow columns, with full justification (text lined up on the left and right). This allows for only a few words per line, and “darkens” a page by eliminatin[...]

41 Specifications Print quality m 300 dots per inch for text and graphics Printer R AM m 512K of RAM Printer fonts m Standard T r ue T ype font families. The Personal LaserW riter 300 can support additional fonts from Apple and from other suppliers. Speed m F our pages per minute maximum. Actual speed depends on the images printed and the computer [...]

Dimensions m Height: 16.1 cm (6.3 in.) m Width: 38.5 cm (15.2 in.) m Depth: 37.9 cm (14.9 in.) W eight m 7 kg (15.4 lb.) not including cartridge Operating environment T emperature m 50° to 90.5° F (10° to 32.5° C) Humidity m 20 to 80 percent, noncondensing T oner cartridge storage environment m 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C) Input electrical re[...]

A alert message, choosing 19 alignment, design tips 40 Apple P eripheral-8 cable 3 Apple T alk, setting up printer for 21–22 Avant Garde ® font 38 B background printing on network 22, 24 setting up in Choose 17 bitmapped fonts Page Setup for 18 T r ue T ype fonts vs. 30 Black and White printing, choosing 19 bold font, using 39 Bookman ® font 38[...]

G Geneva font 38 T r ue T ype fonts printed as 31 graphics, print speed and 29 grayscale printing viii choosing 19 GrayShare software viii H Helvetica ® font 38 Helvetica Narrow font 38 horizontal page orientation choosing 18 print speed and 29 I icons font 31 Installer 5 L aserW riter 300 4 printer and modem port 3 Installer icon 5 installing pap[...]

paper about 37 face-down vs. face-up deliver y 16 feeding improperly 35 jammed 32–34 loading 13–14 Page Setup options 18 printing both sides of 21 printing on only part of 32 printing too light or dark on 36 sizes and types 11, 18, 37, 41 status lights 27 unwanted lines or stripes on 35 paper cassette capacity 41 loading 11–12 printing with 1[...]

specifications 41–42 standby status vii, 15 status lights Paper Jam 27 Paper Out 27 Ready/In Use vii, 15, 27 Symbol font 38, 39 system software fonts and 30, 31 requirements 4 T television interference v–vi cable for preventing 3 3-hole punched paper , loading 13 Times ® font 38 toner 8 pages stained with 36 redistributing 35, 36 toner cartrid[...]

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