Brother Hl 5250dn User Manual
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2. Printing Methods 23 4Click OK. The printer will print on both sides of the paper automatically. Booklet printing (For Windows printer driver) aPut paper in the paper tray or MP tray. bOpen the Properties dialog box in the printer driver. cFrom the General tab, choose the Printing Preferences icon. dFrom the Advanced tab, choose Duplex and Use Duplex Unit or Manual Duplex, and then choose Booklet Printing. eClick OK. The printer will print a booklet automatically.
24 3 Printer driver A printer driver is software that translates data from the format used by a computer to the format that a particular printer needs. Typically, this format is page description language (PDL). The printer drivers for the following version of Windows ® and Macintosh® are on the CD-ROM we have supplied or on the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com . Install the drivers by following the Quick Setup Guide. The latest printer driver can be downloaded from the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com . If you want to uninstall the printer driver, see Uninstalling the printer driver on page 40. For Windows ® „ Windows printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product) „BR-Script (PostScript ®3™ language emulation) printer driver „Generic PCL Driver (For users of Citrix Presentation Server™ (Citrix® MetaFrame®), Windows® Terminal Server environments and other Windows NT 4.0 ® and Windows® 2000/XP network shared environments, we recommend the use of our generic PCL Driver. This driver only supports basic printing functions.) For Macintosh® „Brother Laser driver for Macintosh® „BR-Script (PostScript®3™ language emulation) printer driver For Linux „ LPR printer driver „CUPS printer driver Note • For more infomation about the generic PCL Driver and Linux printer driver, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com. • The printer driver for Linux may be released after the initial release of this product. 1Download the printer driver from http://solutions.brother.com. Driver and Software Windows printer driverBR-Script printer driverGeneric PC L Driver 1 Brother Laser driverLPR / CUPS printer driver Windows ® 95/98/Mepp Windows NT® 4.0 Windows® 2000 Professional Windows® XP Home Edition Windows® XP Professional ppp Windows ® XP Professional x64 Edition 1pp Mac OS ® 9.1 to 9.2 Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greaterpp Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE Linux, Debian) 1p
3. Driver and Software 25 You can change the following printer settings when you print from your computer. „Paper Size „Multiple Page „Orientation „Copies „Media Type „Paper Source „Resolution „Toner Save Mode „Duplex printing (Manual Duplex printing 1 3 / Duplex printing with Duplex tray 4) „Watermark 1 3 „Job Spooling 1 3 „Quick Print Setup 1 3 „Sleep Time „Status Monitor 1 „Macro 1 3 „Administrator 1 2 3 „Insert Command/File 1 2 3 „Page Protection 1 3 „Print Date & Time 1 3 „Density adjustment 1 3 „Error Message Printout 1 3 1These settings are not available with the BR-script printer driver for Windows®. 2These settings are not available with Windows NT® 4.0 and Windows® 2000/XP. 3These settings are not available with Brother Laser driver and BR-Script printer driver for Macintosh®. 4This setting is not available for HL-5240.
3. Driver and Software 26 Features in the printer driver (For Windows®) For more information, see the Help text in the printer driver. Note • The screens in this section are from Windows ® XP. The screens on your PC will vary depending on your operating system. • If you are using Windows ® 2000 or XP, you can access the Printing Preferences dialog box by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties dialog box. • If you are using Windows NT ® 4.0, you can access the Printing Preferences dialog box by clicking Document Defaults... from the File menu of the Printers folder. Basic tab You can also change some of the settings by clicking the illustrations on the left hand side. aChoose the Paper Size, Multiple Page, Orientation and other settings (1). bChoose the Duplex / Booklet setting from None, Duplex or Booklet(2). Note You can choose more detailed settings for Duplex or Booklet printing in the the Advanced tab. See Duplex Printing on page 28. cChoose the Paper Source(3). dClick OK to apply your chosen settings. To return to the default settings, click Default, then OK. 1 3 2
3. Driver and Software 27 Advanced tab Change the tab settings by clicking one of the following icons: „Print Quality (1) „Duplex Printing (2) „Watermark (3) „Page Setting (4) „Device Options (5) Print Quality „Resolution You can change the resolution as follows: •1200dpi •HQ1200 • 600 dpi • 300 dpi Note If you use the high quality 1200 dpi setting (1200×1200 dpi) the print speed will be slower. 12345
3. Driver and Software 28 „Toner Save Mode You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save Mode, which reduces the print density. Note • We do not recommend Toner Save for printing Photo or Gray Scale images. •Toner Save Mode is not available for 1200 dpi or HQ 1200 resolution. „Print Setting You can manually change the print setting. •Auto Choosing Auto will allow automatic printing with the most suitable print settings for your print job. •Manual You can change the settings manually by choosing Manual and clicking the Setting... button. You can set brightness, contrast and other settings. Duplex Printing „Use Duplex Unit (For HL-5250DN) If you choose Use Duplex Unit button, the dialog box for the duplex settings will appear. There are six types of duplex binding directions available for each orientation, automatically. „Manual Duplex If you choose Manual Duplex button, the dialog box for the manual duplex settings will appear. 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. Watermark 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 Setting You can change the print image scaling and choose Mirror/Reverse print options.
3. Driver and Software 29 Device Options You can set the following in Printer Function: (You can jump to the page for each Printer Function by choosing the function name in the list below.) „Job Spooling „Quick Print Setup „Sleep Time „Status Monitor „Macro „Administrator (For Windows ® 95/98/Me only) „Insert Command/File (For Windows ® 95/98/Me only) „Page Protection „Print Date & Time „Density adjustment „Error Message Printout Note The Printer Function list may vary depending on the model.
3. Driver and Software 30 „Job Spooling The printer keeps the last print job sent to it in memory. To reprint the last document, press Go and hold it down for about 4 seconds until all the LEDs light up in order (Toner, Drum, Paper, Status), and then release Go. Within 2 seconds press Go the number of times you want to reprint. If you don’t press Go 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. To view settings, click the tasktray icon. You can turn the quick print setup function on or off. A small selection window appears on your PC. This will then let you make changes to the settings of the following functions: • Multiple Page • Duplex Printing • 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 will be 5 minutes. 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, all the LEDs are off, but the printer can still receive data. Receiving a print file or document or pressing Go 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. „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 want to turn the status monitor on, from the Advanced tab, click the Device Options icon and then choose Status Monitor. „Macro You can save a page of a document as a macro to printer memory. You can also execute the saved macro (you can use the saved macro as an overlay on any documents). This will save time and increase printing speed for often used information such as forms, company logos, letterhead formats or invoices.
3. Driver and Software 31 „Administrator (For Windows® 95/98/Me 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 Windows ® 95/98/Me only) This function lets you to do the following: • Put a print file or tiff format file into a print job. • Put a text string into a print job. • Put a macro, which is saved in printer memory, into a print job. „Page Protection Page Protection refers to a setting that reserves extra 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. Use this function when the image is complicated and the printer has to wait to process the image before printing. „Print Date & Time When this feature is enabled, the date and time will print on your document. „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 printout on page 82. Selections are Printer Default (ON), ON and OFF.
3. Driver and Software 32 Accessories tab Note From the Start menu, select Control Panel and then Printers 1. Right-click the Brother HL-5240/5250DN series icon and select Properties to access the Accessories tab. 1Printers and Faxes for Windows® XP users. „ Available Options (1) You can manually add and remove the options that are installed on the printer. „Paper Source Setting (2) 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 each tray. Highlight the tray you want to define and then choose the paper size from the pull-down menu. Click Update to apply the setting to the tray. When using more than one paper size you must define the paper size for each tray so the paper is pulled from the correct tray. •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 tray that has a defined paper size that matches your document. „Auto detection of printer options (3) The Auto Detect function finds the currently installed optional unit devices and shows the available settings in the printer driver. When you click Auto Detect, options that are installed on the printer will be listed. You can manually add or remove options. Note The Auto Detect function is not available under certain printer conditions. 1 23