Brother Hl 5250dn User Manual

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Support tab
 
„Version (1)
Displays the printer driver version.
„Web Update (2)
You can check the Brother web site for updated drivers, and automatically download and update the 
printer driver on your PC.
„Brother Solutions Center (3)
The Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com
) is a web site offering information about your 
Brother product including FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), User’s Guides, driver updates and tips for 
using your printer.
„Print Settings (4)
This will print the pages that show how the internal settings of the printer have been configured.
„Print Fonts (5)
This will print the pages that show all the internal fonts of the printer.
„Check Setting... (6)
This will show the current settings of the printer driver.
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Features in the BR-Script (PostScript® 3™ language emulation) printer driver
(For Windows®)
For more information, see the Help text in the printer driver.
Note
The screens in this section are based on HL-5250DN with Windows
® XP.
The screens on your PC may vary depending on the printer model and your operating system.
 
Device Settings tab 
Choose the options you have installed.
 
 
						

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Printing Preferences
Note
If you are using Windows NT
® 4.0, Windows® 2000 or XP, you can access the Printing Preferences dialog 
box by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Brother HL-5240/HL-5250DN 
BR-Script3 Properties dialog box.
 
„Layout tab
You can change the layout setting by choosing the settings for Orientation, 
PrintonBothSides(Duplex), Page Order and Pages Per Sheet.
 
„Paper/Quality tab
Choose the Paper Source.
 
 
						

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Advanced options
 
aChoose the Paper Size and Copy Count (1).
bSet the Scaling and TrueType Font settings (2).
cYou can change settings by choosing the setting in the Printer Features list (3):
„Print Quality
„Media Type
„Toner Save
You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save, which reduces the print density.
„Sleep Time
See Device Options on page 29.
„Halftone Screen Lock
„BR-Script Level
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Features in the printer driver (For Macintosh®)
This printer supports Mac OS® 9.1 to 9.2 and 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 Setup
You can set the Paper Size, Orientation and Scale.
 
Layout
Set the Pages per Sheet, Layout direction and Border.
 
„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.
 
						

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Print Settings
You can change settings by choosing the setting in the Print Settings list:
Basic tab
 
„Resolution
You can change the resolution as follows:
• 300 dpi
• 600 dpi
• HQ 1200
• 1200 dpi
Note
If you use the high quality 1200 dpi setting (1200×1200 dpi) the print speed will be slower.
 
„Media Type
You can change the media type as follows:
•
Plain Paper
• Thin Paper
• Thick Paper
• Thicker Paper
• Bond Paper
• Transparencies
• Envelopes
• Env.Thick
• Env.Thin
•Recycled Paper
„Toner Save Mode
You can save running costs by turning on Toner save, 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.
 
 
						

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Advanced tab
 
„Print Quality
You can change the print quality as follows:
• Brother Photo
This is a photograph mode (gradation priority). Choose this setting for printing photographs that have 
continuous gradation. You can represent soft contrasts between various shades of gray.
• Brother Graphics
This is a graphics mode (contrast priority). Choose this setting for printing text and figures, such as 
business and presentation documents. You can represent sharp contrasts between shaded areas.
• Generic
This is a standard halftone pattern of Mac
® OS X. If you choose this mode for printing text documents, 
the print speed will be faster. Use this mode for Mac
®s that have less memory.
„Sleep Time
When the printer does not receive data for a certain period of time (timeout), it enters sleep mode. In sleep 
mode, the printer acts as though it were turned off. The default timeout is 5 minutes. 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.
Status Monitor (For Mac® X 10.2.4 or greater users)
This reports the printer status (any errors that may happen with the printer) when printing. If you would like to 
turn the status monitor on, run the BrStatusMonitor.app (from the Macintosh HD (Startup Disk), choose 
Library, Printers, Brother, Utilities).
 
						

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Uninstalling the printer driver
You can uninstall the printer driver that you installed with the following steps.
Note
• This is not available if you installed the printer driver from the Windows Add a printer function.
• After uninstalling, we recommend that you restart your computer to remove files that were in use during 
the uninstall.
 
Printer driver for Windows®
For Windows® XP
aClick the Start button, point to All Programs and then to your printer name.
bClick UnInstall.
cFollow the instructions on the screen.
For Windows
® 95/98/Me/2000 and Windows NT® 4.0
aClick the Start button, point to Programs and then to your printer name.
bClick UnInstall.
cFollow the instructions on the screen.
 
						

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Brother Laser driver for Macintosh®
For Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater
aDisconnect the USB cable between the Macintosh and your printer.
bRestart the Macintosh®.
cLog on as an ‘Administrator’.
dRun the Printer Setup Utility 1 (from the Go menu, choose Applications, Utilities), then choose the 
printer you want to remove and remove it by clicking the Delete button.
eDrag the HL-MFLPro folder (from the Macintosh HD (Startup Disk), choose Library, Printers, 
Brother) into the Trash and then empty the Trash.
fRestart the Macintosh®.
1Print Center for Mac OS® X 10.2 users
For Mac OS® 9.1 to 9.2
aOpen the Extensions folder located in the System Folder on the Macintosh HD.
bDrag all these following files in the Extensions folder to the trash.
„BR_PrintMonitor(laser)
„Brother Laser
„Brother Laser(IP)
Note
There may be several USB Print Driver(BRXXX)
 1 and BR_PrintMonitor(BXX) 1 extensions with different 
endings.
1The ‘x’ refers to the model of your machine.
 
cRestart the Macintosh®.
dOnce the computer has restarted you can then empty the trash.
 
						

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Software
Software for networks (For HL-5250DN only)
BRAdmin Professional  (For Windows®)
The BRAdmin Professional is a utility for managing your Brother network enabled printers that are running 
under Windows
® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT® 4.0. It allows you to easily configure and check the 
status of your printer on the network.
BRAdmin Light  (For Macintosh®)
The Brother BRAdmin Light software is a Java™ application that is designed for the Apple® Mac OS®X 
environment. It supports some of the features of the Windows
® BRAdmin software. For example, using the 
BRAdmin Light software, you can change some network settings and update firmware on Brother’s network 
ready printers and multifunction devices.
Driver Deployment Wizard  (For Windows®)
This installer includes the Windows® printer driver and Brother network port driver (LPR and NetBIOS). If the 
administrator installs the printer driver and port driver using this application, the administrator can save the 
file to the file server or send the file by e-mail to users. Then, each user just clicks that file to have the printer 
driver, port driver, IP address, and so on, automatically copied to their PC.
Network Print Software  (For Windows®)
This installer includes the port monitors (Peer-to-Peer Printing software). They allow you to print through the 
network (LAN) under Windows
®
Web BRAdmin  (For Windows®)
The Web BRAdmin is designed to manage all LAN/WAN Brother network connected devices. By installing 
the Web BRAdmin server utility on a PC running IIS
 1, administrators with a web browser can connect to the 
Web BRAdmin server, which then communicates with the device itself. Unlike the BRAdmin Professional, 
which is designed for Windows
® systems only, the Web BRAdmin server utility can be accessed from any 
client PC with a web browser that supports Java 2.
You can download the Web BRAdmin from our web site. Visit us at http://solutions.brother.com
.
1Internet Information Server 4.0 or 5.0
Web BRAdmin and Internet Information Server 4.0 are supported by the following operating systems:
„Windows NT® 4.0 Server
Web BRAdmin and Internet Information Service 5.0 are supported by the following operating systems:
„Windows® 2000 Server
„Windows
® 2000 Advanced Server
„Windows
® 2000 Professional
Web BRAdmin and Internet Information Service 5.1 are supported by the following operating systems:
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Windows® XP Professional