Brother Hl 5280dw User Manual

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5Click OK. The printer will print on both sides of the paper automatically. 
For the BR-Script printer driver
1Open the Properties dialog box in the printer driver.
2From the General tab, click the Printing Preferences icon.
3From the Layout tab, choose Orientation, Print on Both Sides (Duplex) and Page Order.
4Click OK. The printer will print on both sides of the paper automatically.
 
 

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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. 
 

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Carbon copy printing
Carbon copy printing allows you to automatically print one page of data on different kinds of paper by 
changing the paper source. You can make copies as though you are printing on carbon paper using a dot 
matrix printer. For example, you can print ‘Data A’ to ‘Sheet 1’ which is blue colored paper and then to ‘Sheet 
2’ which is yellow colored and has some information already printed on it. If you put paper for ‘Sheet 1’ in Tray 
1 and paper for ‘Sheet 2’ in...

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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 versions 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...

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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)
„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...

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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...

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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:
• 1200 dpi
• HQ 1200
• 600 dpi
• 300 dpi
Note
If you use the high quality 1200 dpi setting (1200×1200 dpi) the print speed will be slower.
 
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„Toner Save Mode
You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save Mode, which cuts 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...

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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
 

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„Job Spooling
The printer keeps the last print job sent to it in memory.
You can reprint a document without sending the data again from your PC. To reprint (except for secure 
printing).
• Last Job Reprint: Reprint the last job
• Secure Print: Print data with a password
For more information about the Reprint function, see Reprinting documents on page 52.
Note
If you want to prevent other people from printing your data using the reprint function, uncheck the 
Use Reprint check...