Brother Hl 5280dw User Manual

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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...

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Software
Software for networks
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...

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„Windows® XP Professional
About emulation modes
This printer has the following emulation modes. You can change the setting by using the control panel  or a 
Web browser.
„HP LaserJet Mode
The HP LaserJet mode (or HP mode) is the emulation mode in which this printer supports the PCL6 
language of the Hewlett-Packard
® LaserJet laser printer. Many applications support this type of laser 
printer. Using this mode will allow your printer to run at its best with those applications....

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Automatic interface selection
This printer has an automatic interface selection feature that is turned on by default. This lets it automatically 
change the interface to IEEE 1284 parallel,  USB, or Ethernet depending on which interface is receiving data.
When you use the parallel interface, you can turn the high-speed and bi-directional parallel communications 
on or off by using the control panel buttons to access PARALLEL in the INTERFACE menu. (See Menu table 
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Control panel
This printer has one liquid crystal display (LCD), seven buttons and one Light Emitting Diode (LED) on the 
control panel. The display can show various messages with up to 16 characters in one row. The LED light 
shows the current status of the printer.
 
Control Panel
 

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Buttons 
You can control the basic printer operations and change various printer settings with seven buttons (Go, 
Job Cancel, Reprint, +, -, Back, Set).
Go
Pressing Go will exit the control panel menu and return the printer to the Ready state, however, if there is an 
ERROR indication, the control panel will only change when the error is cleared.
You can pause printing by pressing Go. Pressing Go again restarts the print job. During a pause, the printer 
is offline.
Note
If the...

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Reprint
If you want to reprint a document that has just been printed, press Reprint.
You can reprint when the printer is in the READY or PAUSE state.
For details, see Reprinting documents on page 52.
+ or - button
Moving through menus on the LCD
Pressing the + or - button when the printer is in the Ready state, takes it offline and the LCD will show the 
control panel menu.
Press to scroll through the menus and options. Press or keep pressing the button until you see the setting 
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Data LED
The Data LED is a light which shows the printer status.
LCD
The LCD shows the current printer status. When you use the control panel buttons, the LCD will change.
If there are any problems, the LCD shows the proper error message, maintenance message or call service 
message so you will know that you need to take action. For more information about these messages, see 
LCD messages on page 92.
Back light
LED indicationMeaning
OnData is in the printer memory.
BlinkingReceiving...

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LCD messages
Printer status messages
The following table shows the printer status messages during normal operation: 
Printer Status MessageMeaning
IGNORE DATAPrinter is ignoring data processed using PS driver.
JOB CANCELLINGCancelling the job.
Now InitializingThe printer is setting up.
PAUSEThe printer has suspended its operations. Press Go to start the printer again.
PRESS SET TO PRINTPress Set to start printing.
PRINTINGPrinting.
PROCESSINGBusy processing data.
RAM SIZE=XX MBThis...

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Reprinting documents
Reprinting from RAM
You can reprint from random access memory (RAM). The reprint data in RAM will be deleted when the printer 
is turned off.
When you use RAM to reprint:
aPress Set on the control panel.
bPress the + or - button to choose SETUP. Press Set.
cPress the + or - button to choose RAMDISK SIZE. Press Set.
dThe present RAM disk is 0MB. Press the + button to increase the reprint RAM size in increments of 1MB.
ePress Set.
Note
When you increase the RAM...