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Contents Figures and tables vii Radio and television interference xi Preface About This Manual xiii How to use this manual x111 About the LaserWriter II xv Chapter 1 Setting Up 1 Do you have what you need? 2 Choosing a place for the LaserWriter II 2 Setting up 3 Unpacking 3 Opening the LaserWriter II 4 Installing the toner cartridge 7 Installing the cleaning pad 10 Loading the paper cassette 12 Installing the manual feed guide 14 Installing the paper cassette 15 Connecting to a Macintosh 16 Important safety instructions 17 Starting up 18 Chapter 2 Software Installation 21 About printer software 22 Installing the printer resource 22 Naming the LaserWriter 11 24 Installing fonts 25 Managing disk space 29 Creating application disks 31 ill Chapter 3 Using the LaserWriter II 33 Using the Chooser 34 Automatic feed printing 36 Face-up and face-down delivery 37 Letterhead and three-hole paper 38 Automatic envelope printing 39 Manual feed printing 40 Two-sided (duplex) printing 41 Printing envelopes using manual feed 42 Printing from the Finder 43 About the Print dialog box 43 About page setup 44 About paper 46 Adding and removing fonts 47 Chapter 4 All About Fonts 51 Screen fonts, printer fonts, and POSTSCRIPT 52 Sizes and styles 52 Printing without a printer font 53 Using Key Caps 54 The LaserWriter II fonts 55 Serif fonts 55 ITC Bookman 56 Courier 56 New Century Schoolbook 56 Palatino 57 Times 57 ITC Zapf Chancery 57 Sans serif fonts 57 ITC Avant Garde 57 Helvetica 58 Helvetica Narrow 58 Specialty fonts 58 Symbol 58 ITC Zapf Dingbats 58 Obtaining additional fonts 59 Commercial sources, shareware, and freeware 59 Installation 59 Chapter 5 Designing With the LaserWriter II 61 Font selection 62 Document organization 64 Letters and memos 66 Iv Contents Presentations 68 Reports 70 Newsletters 72 Multipage documents 74 Suggestions for further reading 78 Chapter 6 Maintenance and Troubleshooting 79 Safety first 80 Maintenance 82 Installing a new toner cartridge 83 Inte rior cleaning 84 Exterior cleaning 87 Troubleshooting 88 The Chooser isn't listed in the Apple menu 88 No Lase rWriter icon appears in the Chooser 88 The LaserWriter isn't listed in the Chooser 89 The LaserWriter II won't print a test page 89 The test page is blank 90 The LaserWriter II won't print a document 90 Checking the LocalTalk cable system 91 Correcting paper jams 91 Correcting image problems 93 Correcting paper problems 95 Appendix A The LaserWriter II Upgrades 98 Memory upgrades 98 RAM expansion 98 The font expansion card 99 Adding one or more hard disks 99 Connecting the disks 100 Chaining different sizes and types of hard disk 102 Identifying and initializing hard disks 102 Appendix B Connecting the LaserWriter II to an Apple II 104 Connecting to the computer 104 Setting the Control Panel 105 Using the Namer 106 Using the Chooser 108 Printing 109 Contents v Appendix C Connecting To and Printing With an MS -DOS Computer 110 Using LocalTalk 110 The LocalTalk PC Card 111 Other peripheral cards 111 Using the 25-pin connector 112 Making the connection 112 Matching handshakes 114 The LaserWriter !INT handshake 11 5 The LaserWrite r IINTX handshake 115 When you finish 116 POSTSCRIPT documents 11 6 Diablo emu lation 116 LaserJe t+ emulation 118 Changing parameters 119 Parameters for the LaserWriter !INT 120 Parameters for the LaserWriter IINTX 121 Sending the program 122 Checking the parameters 123 Short program 123 Long p rogram 123 Troubleshooting 124 Pin assignments 125 Appendix D How the LaserWriter II Works 126 Appendix E Specifications and Parts List 128 Specifications 128 Parts list (including options) 131 Appendix F Status Lights, Ports, Expansion Slot, and Switches 132 Appendix G The LaserWriter II Fonts 136 Appendix H Service and Support 141 Glossary 143 Index 149 v i Contents Figures and tables Preface About This Manual xiii Figure P-1 The LaserWriter II xvi Chapter 1 Setting Up Figure 1-1 Dimensions of the LaserWriter II and the work area 3 Figure 1-2 Lifting the LaserWriter II 4 Figure 1-3 Opening the LaserWriter II 5 Figure 1-4 The interior of the LaserWriter II 5 Figure 1-5 Removing the packing material from inside the printer 6 Figure 1-6 Removing the orange tabs 6 Figure 1-7 The toner cartridge 7 Figure 1-8 Distributing the toner powder 8 Figure 1-9 Inserting the toner cartridge 9 Figure 1-10 Flexing the black tab 9 Figure 1-11 Removing the tape from the toner cartridge 9 Figure 1-12 Removing the felt Lip from the cleaning pad 10 Figure 1-13 Fitting the cleaning pad under the fixing roller cover 10 Figure 1-14 The print density dial 11 Figure 1-15 Closing the printer 12 Figure 1-16 Removing the packing material from the cassette 13 Figure 1-17 Loading the cassette 14 Figure 1-18 Positioning the manual feed guide 15 Figure 1-19 Inserting the loaded cassette 15 Figure 1-20 The LaserWriter II connected to a Macintosh 16 Figure 1-21 The on/off switch and the power cord port 18 Figure 1-22 The LaserWriter II test page 19 Figure 1-23 The LaserWriter II status lights 20 vii Chapter 2 Software lnstallatlon 21 Figure 2-1 Contents of the LaserWriter II Installation Disk 23 Figure 2-2 The LaserWriter and Laser Prep icons on the desktop 24 Figure 2-3 The Namer di alog box 25 Figure 2-4 The LaserWriter II fonts in the Font/DA Mover 26 Figure 2-5 The list of folders on the startup disk 27 Figure 2-6 The System file 27 Figure 2-7 The LaserWriter IT and System fonts in the Font/ DA Mover 28 Figure 2-8 Selecting a single font 28 Figure 2-9 The list of desk accessories in the Font/DA Mover 30 Figure 2-10 An application icon 32 Chapter 3 Using the LaserWrlter II 33 Figure 3-1 The Chooser with the LaserWriter II icon selected 34 Figure 3-2 The AppleTalk dialog b ox 35 Figure 3-3 The Chooser with the LaserWriter II listed by name 35 Figure 3-4 The face-up tray 37 Figure 3-5 Inserting lette rhead paper 38 Figure 3-6 Inserting three-hole paper 38 Figure 3-7 Positioning the address block 39 Figure 3-8 The envelope cassette 40 Figure 3-9 Selecting the sideways icon 40 Figure 3-10 Inserting paper for duplex printing 42 Figure 3-11 Inserting envelopes 43 Figure 3-12 The Print dialog box 44 Figure 3-13 The Page Setup dialog box 45 Figure 3-14 The Options dialog box 46 Figure 3-15 The Font/DA Mover window 48 Figure 3-16 The Font/DA Mover dialog box 49 Chapter 4 All About Fonts 51 Figure 4-1 The Key Caps window and menu 54 Figure 4-2 Key Caps in Helvetica 55 Figure 4-3 Helvetica option characte rs 55 viii Figures and tables Chapter 5 Designing With the LaserWrlter II 61 Figure 5-1 A letter 67 Figure 5-2 An overhead transparency 69 Figure 5-3 A report 71 Figure 5-4 A newsletter 73 Figure 5-5 A brochure 75 Figure 5-6 The brochure layout 76-77 Chapter 6 Maintenance and Troubleshooting 79 Figure 6-1 The fixing rollers 80 Figure 6-2 Exposed gears and electrical contacts 81 Figure 6-3 The light-blocking shutters 81 Figure 6-4 The drum protection shutter 82 Figure 6-5 The Low Toner Level light 82 Figure 6-6 Removing the old toner cartridge 83 Figure 6-7 Cleaning the fixing rollers 84 Figure 6-8 Removing the felt tip 85 Figure 6-9 Installing the new cleaning pad 85 Figure 6-1 0 Cleaning the discharging pins 85 Figure 6-11 Wiping the transfer corona wire 86 Figure 6-12 Wiping the transfer guide 87 Figure 6-13 Disconnecting the power cord 87 Figure 6-14 The LaserWricer