Brother HL 2040R User Manual
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Driver and software 2 - 5 2 Toner Save Mode You can save running costs by turning on the toner save mode, which reduces the print density. Print Setting You can manually change the Print setting. Auto Selecting the Auto button will allow automatic printing with the most suitable print settings for your print job. Manual You can change the settings manually by selecting the Manual button and clicking the Setting... button. For Windows ® 95/98/Me users: brightness, contrast and other settings. For Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows® 2000/XP users: Printer Halftone, System Halftone, Improve gray printing. Duplex Printing Manual Duplex If you select Manual Duplex, the dialog box for the manual duplex settings will appear. There are six types of manual duplex binding directions available for each orientation. Binding Offset If you check the Binding Offset option, you can also specify the offset for binding in inches or millimeters. Watermark You can put a watermarked logo or text into your documents. When you use a bitmap file as a watermark, you can change the size of the watermark and put it anywhere you like on the page. When you use text as a watermark, you can change the font, darkness and angle settings. Page Setting You can change the print image scaling and select Mirror / Reverse print options.
Driver and software 2 - 6 2 Device Options You can set the following Printer Function modes in this tab: (You can jump to the page for each Printer Function by clicking the function name in the list below.) Job Spooling Quick Print Setup Sleep Time Status Monitor Macro (For HL-2070N) Administrator (For Windows ® 95/98/Me users only) Insert Command/File (For HL-2070N: For Windows ® 95/98/Me users only) Page Protection Print Date & Time Density adjustment Error Message Printout Note The Printer Function list may differ depending on the model.
Driver and software 2 - 7 2 Job Spooling The printer saves data that you want to reprint. You can reprint a document without sending the data again from your PC. To reprint press and hold down the Go button for about 4 seconds until all the LEDs light up in order (Toner, Drum, Paper, Ready). Note Reprint function is not available for multiple copies. If you want to prevent other people from printing your data using the Reprint function, clear the Use Reprint check box in the job spooling settings. Quick Print Setup You can turn the Quick Print Setup function ON or OFF. A small selection window appears on your computer. This will then let you make changes to the settings of the following functions: Multiple Page Manual Duplex Printing Toner Save Mode Paper Source Media Type Sleep Time When the printer does not receive data for a certain period of time (timeout), it enters sleep mode. Sleep mode acts as though the printer was turned off. The default time-out is 5 minutes. When Intelligent Sleep Mode is selected, it is automatically adjusted to the most suitable time-out setting depending on how often you use your printer. While the printer is in sleep mode, all the LEDs are off, but the printer can still receive data from the computer. Receiving a print file or document automatically wakes up the printer to start printing. Pressing the Go button will also wake up the printer. Sleep mode can be turned off. To turn sleep mode off, go to the Advanced tab, select Device Options and then select Sleep Time. Double click the word Sleep Time in the Sleep Time screen, this will allow the Sleep Time Off function to appear, click Sleep Time Off to stop the printer from going into sleep mode. The Sleep Time Off function can be hidden by double clicking the word Sleep Time in the Sleep Time screen again. We recommend that you keep Sleep mode on for power saving. Status Monitor This reports the printer status (any errors that may happen with the printer) when printing. The default setting for the Status Monitor is off. If you would like to turn the status monitor on, go to the Advanced tab, select Device options and then select Status monitor.
Driver and software 2 - 8 2 Macro (For HL-2070N) You can save a page of a document as a macro to the printer memory. Moreover, you can execute the saved macro - in other words, you can use the saved macro as an overlay on any document. This will save time and increase printing speed for often used information such as forms, company logos, letterhead formats or invoices. Administrator (For Windows ® 95/98/Me users only) Administrators have the authority to limit the Number of copies, Scaling setting and Watermark setting functions. Password Enter the password into this box. Set Password Click here to change the password. COPY LOCK Lock the copy pages selection to prevent multiple copy printing. WATERMARK LOCK Lock the current settings of the Watermark option to prevent changes being made. SCALING LOCK Lock the scaling setting as shown below. 1 in 1 100% Insert Command/File (For HL-2070N: For Windows ® 95/98/Me users only) This option allows data to be inserted into a print job. Using this function allows you to do the following. Insert a print file or tiff format file into a print job. Insert a text string into a print job. Insert a macro, which is saved in printer memory, into a print job. Page Protection Page Protection refers to a setting that reserves additional memory for the creation of full page images. Selections are AUTO, OFF and Printer Default. The page protection feature allows the printer to create the full page image to be printed in memory before physically moving the paper through the printer. When the image is very complicated and the printer has to wait to process the image before printing, use this function. Print Date & Time Date: Specifies the format of the date. Time: Specifies the format of the time.
Driver and software 2 - 9 2 Density adjustment Increase or decrease the print density. Error Message Printout You can choose whether the printer reports problem by printing error page or not. About the errors, see Error message printout on page 6-3. Selections are Printer Default (ON), ON and OFF.
Driver and software 2 - 10 2 Tray Settings tab Paper Source Setting This feature recognizes the paper size in each paper tray.
Driver and software 2 - 11 2 Support tab Note If you are using Windows® 2000 or XP, you can access the Support tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties screen. If you are using Windows NT ® 4.0, you can access the Support tab by clicking Document Defaults... in the file menu of the Printers folder. ■You can download the latest driver or get other product information by accessing the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com ■You can see the printer driver version. ■You can check the current driver settings. ■You can print the printer settings page and the internal fonts list. (The internal fonts list is available for HL-2070N only.)
Driver and software 2 - 12 2 For Macintosh® This printer supports Mac OS® 9.1 to 9.2 and Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater. You can download the latest printer driver by accessing the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com Note The screens in this section are from Mac OS® X 10.3. The screens on your Macintosh ® will vary depending on your Operating System. Page setup You can set the Paper size, Orientation and Scale. Print Layout Set the Pages per Sheet, Layout direction and Border. Pages per sheet: Select how many pages will appear on each side of the paper. Layout direction: When you specify the Pages per sheet, you can also specify the direction of the layout. Border: If you want to add a border, use this function.
Driver and software 2 - 13 2 Print settings Set the Resolution, Media Type, Toner Save and other settings. You can change settings by selecting the setting in the Printer Settings list: ■Quality ■Media Type ■Toner Save Mode Quality You can change the resolution as follows: 300 dpi 600 dpi HQ 1200 Media Type You can change the media type as follows: Plain Paper Recycled Paper Thick Paper Transparencies Thicker Paper Thin Paper Bond Paper Envelopes Env.Thin Env.Thick Toner Save Mode You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save setting, which reduces the print density.
Driver and software 2 - 14 2 Uninstalling the printer driver You can uninstall the printer driver that you installed with the following steps. Note This instruction is not available if you installed the printer driver from Windows Add Printer function. After uninstalling, we recommend that you restart your PC to remove files that were in use during uninstall. Printer driver for Windows® For Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows NT® 4.0 and Windows® 2000 1Click Start and select your appropriate printer from Programs. 2Select UnInstall. 3Follow the instructions on the screen. For Windows® XP 1Click Start and select your appropriate printer from ALL Programs. 2Select UnInstall. 3Follow the instructions on the screen.