Tektronix Phaser 600 User Manual

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Printer not
printing, even
though you’ve
configured a
supported driver
for your printer
(cont’d.)

Macintosh users

■

Open the

Chooser

and select a supported driver, such as the LaserWriter

8.x, and your printer.
If the driver isn’t installed or properly set up with your printer, refer to

Make sure that

Background Printing

is turned

off

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If you are having trouble printing from the

Finder

in System 7.1, for example,

if the Phaser 600 printer driver dialog boxes are not opening, it may be
because the

Finder

doesn’t have enough allocated memory. Reinstall a

supported driver to automatically allocate enough memory for printing from
the

Finder

■

For PowerMacs, you should be using the latest version of

Open Transport

and the system software, available from Apple Computer.

■

If you are using LaserWriter 8, throw away the

LaserWriter 8 Pref file, located

in the

Preferences folder, inside the System Folder. A new preferences file

will be generated.

■

Use the most current version of the Macintosh operating system.

■

Use the most current version of your application.

■

If you prefer using background printing, but it seems to be causing

problems, allocate more memory to the Print Monitor.

If you can’t make a print (cont'd.)

Symptom

Solution