Brother Hl 2170 W Manual
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Driver and Software 33 3 „Print Setting You can manually change the print setting. •General This is a printing mode for general printing of documents. •Graphics This is the best mode for printing documents that contain graphics. •Office Document This is the best mode for printing office documents. •Manual You can change the settings manually by choosing Manual and clicking the Setting... button. You can set brightness, contrast and other settings. Duplex Printing3 „Manual Duplex Check the Duplex box and choose Manual Duplex. In this mode, the printer prints all the even numbered pages first. Then the printer driver will stop and show the instructions required to re-install the paper. When you click OK the odd numbered pages will be printed. There are six types of manual duplex binding directions available for each orientation. „Booklet Printing When you want to print a booklet, use this function. To make the Booklet, fold the printed pages down the middle, when using the booklet printing function. „Binding Offset If you check the Binding Offset option, you can also specify the offset for binding in inches or millimeters. Watermark3 You can put a logo or text into your documents as a watermark. You can choose one of the preset watermarks, or you can use a bitmap file or text file that you have created. 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 Setting3 You can change the print image scaling and choose Mirror/Reverse print options.
Driver and Software 34 3 Device Options3 You can set the following in Printer Function: „Job Spooling „Quick Print Setup „Sleep Time „Macro (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) „Header-Footer Print „Density adjustment „Error Message Printout „Improve Print Output
Driver and Software 35 3 „Job Spooling The printer keeps the last print job sent to it in memory. To reprint the last document, press the Go button and hold it down for about 4 seconds until all the LEDs light up in order (Toner, Drum, Error, Ready), and then release the Go button. Within 2 seconds press the Go button the number of times you want to reprint. If you don’t press the Go button within 2 seconds, a single copy will be printed. Note If you want to prevent other people from printing your data using the reprint function, uncheck the Use Reprint check box in the job spooling settings. „Quick Print Setup This feature allows you to quickly choose driver settings by clicking a tasktray icon. You can turn the quick print setting on or off. By placing a check in the selection boxes for the following functions you can choose which will be available in the quick print setting. • Multiple Page • Manual Duplex • Toner Save Mode • Paper Source • Media Type „Sleep Time When the printer does not receive data for a certain period of time, it enters sleep mode. In sleep mode, the printer acts as though it were turned off. When you choose Printer Default, the timeout setting has been set to a specific time set at the factory, this can be altered in the driver. Intelligent Sleep Mode automatically adjusts to the most suitable timeout setting depending on the frequency of your printer use. While the printer is in sleep mode, the Ready LED lights up slightly, but the printer can still receive data. Receiving a print file or document or pressing the Go button will automatically wake up the printer to start printing. To turn sleep mode off, from the Advanced tab, click the Device Options icon and choose Sleep Time. Double-click the word Sleep Time, and the Sleep Time Off function will appear. Click Off to stop the printer going into sleep mode. The Sleep Time Off function can be hidden by double-clicking the word Sleep Time again. We recommend that you keep sleep mode on for power saving. „Macro (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) You can save a page of a document as a macro to the printers memory. You can also execute the saved macro (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.
Driver and Software 36 3 „Header-Footer Print When this feature is enabled, it will print the date and time on your document from your computer’s system clock and the PC login user name or the text you entered. By clicking Setting, you can customize the information. •ID Print If you select Login User Name, your PC login user name will print. If you select Custom and enter the text in the Custom edit box, the text you entered will print. „Density adjustment Increase or decrease the print density. Note The Density adjustment is not available when you set the resolution to HQ 1200. „Error Message Printout You can choose whether the printer reports problems by printing an error page. For details, see Error message printouton page 82. Selections are Printer Default (ON), ON and OFF. „Improve Print Output This feature allows you to improve a print quality problem. • Reduce Paper Curl If you choose this setting, the paper curl may be reduced. If you are printing only a few pages, you do not need to choose this setting. We recommend that you change the printer driver setting in Media Type to a thin setting. • Improve Toner Fixing If you choose this setting, the toner fixing on paper may be improved. If this selection does not improve the situation enough, select Thicker paper in Media type settings.
Driver and Software 37 3 Tray Settings tab 3 You can define the paper size for each paper tray and auto detect the serial number in the Tray Settings tab as follows. „Paper Source Setting (1) This feature identifies the paper size defined for each paper tray. • Paper Size This setting allows you to define which paper size is used for the tray and manual feed slot. Highlight the paper source you want to define and then choose the paper size from the pull-down menu. Click Update to apply the setting to the paper source. •Default Source This setting allows you to choose the default paper source that your document will be printed from. Choose the Default Source from the pull-down menu and click Update to save your setting. The Auto Select setting will automatically pull paper from any paper source (tray or manual feed slot) that has a defined paper size that matches your document. „Serial No. (2) By clicking Auto Detect, the printer driver will probe the printer and display its serial number. If it fails to receive the information, the screen will display ---------. Note The Auto Detect function is not available under the following printer conditions: • The printer power switch is off. • The printer is in an error state. • The printer is in a network shared environment. • The cable is not connected to the printer correctly. 1 2
Driver and Software 38 3 Support tab3 „Visit the Genuine Supplies website (1) You can visit our website for original/genuine Brother supplies by clicking this button. „Brother Solutions Center (2) The Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com ) is a website offering information about your Brother product including FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), User’s Guides, driver updates and tips for using your printer. „Print Settings (3) This will print the pages that show how the internal settings of the printer have been configured. „Print Fonts (4) (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) This will print the pages that show all the internal fonts of the printer. „Check Setting... (5) You can check the current driver settings. 2 13 5 4
Driver and Software 39 3 Features in the printer driver (for Macintosh®)3 This printer supports Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater. Note The screens in this section are from Mac OS ® X 10.4. The screens on your Macintosh® will vary depending on your operating system. Page Setup3 You can set the Paper Size, Orientation and Scale. Copies & Pages3 You can set the Copies and Pages.
Driver and Software 40 3 Cover Page (for Mac OS® X 10.4)3 You can make the following cover page settings: „Print Cover Page If you want to add a cover page to your document, use this function. „Cover Page Type Choose a template for the cover page. „Billing Info If you want to add the billing information to the cover page, enter text in the Billing Info box. Layout3 „Pages per Sheet Choose 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 41 3 Duplex Printing3 „Manual duplex (for Mac OS® X 10.3 or greater) Select Paper Handling. Choose Odd numbered pages and print, and then choose Even numbered pages and print. Print Settings3 You can change settings by choosing a setting in the Print Settings list: Basic tab „Resolution You can change the resolution as follows: •300 dpi •600 dpi • HQ 1200
Driver and Software 42 3 „Toner Save Mode You can conserve toner using this feature. When you set Toner Save Mode to On, print appears lighter. The default setting is Off. Note • We do not recommend Toner Save Mode for printing Photo or Gray Scale images. •Toner Save Mode is not available for HQ 1200 resolution. „Media Type You can change the media type to one of the following: •Plain Paper • Thin Paper • Thick Paper • Thicker Paper • Bond Paper • Transparencies • Envelopes • Env. Thick • Env. Thin • Recycled Paper „Support You can visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com ) and our website for original/genuine Brother supplies by clicking the Support button. The Brother Solutions Center is a website offering information about your Brother product including FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), User’s Guides, driver updates and tips for using your printer.