Brother HL 8050N User Manual
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2 - 28 USABLE PAPER TYPES AND PRINTING METHOD In Windows® Follow the steps below. The following example is for Windows® XP. 1On the Start menu, click Printers and Faxes. The Printers window opens. 2Click the appropriate printer and on the File menu, click Properties. The Properties dialog box opens. 3Click the Accessories tab. Select the options added to the printer and click OK or Apply. On a Macintosh® Computer Follow the steps below: For Mac OS® 8-6 - 9.2 1Select the Printer icon on your Desktop. 2Select Change Setup... on Printing menu. 3Select the options added to the printer and click OK. For Mac OS® X 10.2 or greater This is not available in Mac OS® X 10.1. 1Open Print Center. 2Select the printer from printer list. 3Select Show Infor from Printer menu. 4Select Installable Options. 5Select the options added to the printer and click OK. 6Close the Printer Center
USABLE PAPER TYPES AND PRINTING METHOD 2 - 29 Duplex Printing To use duplex printing, you need to install the optional Duplex unit onto your printer. You can perform automatic duplex printing with the printer when using the optional duplex unit (DX-8000). For details about the types of paper suitable for duplex printing, see Suitable and Unsuitable Paper Types on page 2-1. Types of Duplex Printing There are six types of duplex printing. The results of printing with the six types are shown below: 1231 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 12 3 1 2 3
3 - 1 PRINTER DRIVER AND SOFTWARE 3 Printer Driver (Windows®) 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 a printer command language (PCL) or page description language. The printer drivers for the following operating systems are on the CD-ROM that we have supplied. You can also download the latest printer driver from the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com When using the printer locally, install the printer driver on the computer connected to it. To share a printer through a network, install the printer driver on every computer connected to the network. Installing the Printer Driver To install the Windows® printer driver, see the Quick Setup Guide. Upgrading the Printer Driver Printer driver upgrades are available on the Brother Solutions Center. To use the software, download it. Any connection charges incurred while downloading the software are entirely the customers responsibility. The address of the Brother Solutions Center is: http://solutions.brother.com Printer Driver and Software PCL Driver (Hewlett-Packard LaserJet compatible laser printer) BR-Script Driver (Postscript® 3 language emulation) Windows® 95/98/Me Windows ® 2000 Windows NT ® 4.0 Windows ® XP
PRINTER DRIVER AND SOFTWARE 3 - 2 Features in the PCL Printer Driver You can download the latest driver or get other product information by accessing the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com ■The screens in this section are from Windows® XP. ■The screens on your PC will vary depending on your Operating System. Basic tab If you are using Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000 or XP, you can access the Basic tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Brother HL-8050N series Properties screen. Change the settings for Paper Size, Multiple Page, Orientation and so on. 1Select the Paper Source or set the Duplex setting by clicking the Paper Source or Duplex unit. 2Select Paper Size, Multiple Page, Orientation (Portrait or Landscape), Copies and Media Type. 3Select the Paper Source and so on. 2 3 1
3 - 3 PRINTER DRIVER AND SOFTWARE Advanced tab If you are using Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000 or XP, you can access the Advanced tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Brother HL-8050N series Properties screen. Change the tab settings by clicking the following icons: 1Print Quality 2Duplex Printing 3Watermark 4Page Setting 5Device Options 6Destination Print Quality Select the Resolution, Toner Save Mode and Print Setting. ■You can change the Resolution in the printer driver as follows: 1200 dpi 600 dpi 300 dpi ■Toner Save Mode You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save Mode, which reduces the print density. 1234 5 6
PRINTER DRIVER AND SOFTWARE 3 - 4 ■Print Setting You can manually change the brightness, contrast and other settings. For Windows ® 95/98/Me users only: ■Auto You can automatically print with the most suitable print setting by selecting the Auto button. ■Manual You can change the settings manually by selecting the manual button and clicking the setting button. For Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows® 2000/XP users only: ■Use Printer Halftone You can print, using the printer setting by selecting the User printer Halftone button. ■Use System Halftone You can manually change the brightness, contrast and other settings by selecting the Use system Halftone button and clicking the setting button. ■Improve gray printing You can improve the image quality of shaded areas by clicking the Improve gray printing check box. (Printing speed will be shower depending on data type.) Duplex Printing To use duplex printing, you need to install the optional duplex unit (DX-8000) onto your printer. If you click the Duplex icon, the dialog box for duplex settings will appear. There are six types of duplex print options available. Booklet Printing (For PCL driver Only) A Booklet Printing function can be used when the optional duplex unit is installed. If you select the Duplex icon, the dialog box for duplex settings will appear so you can select from 2 types of booklet options. Watermark Select Use Watermark to put a watermark logo or text into your documents: ■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 Scaling of the print image and select Mirror Print and Reverse Print options.
3 - 5 PRINTER DRIVER AND SOFTWARE Device Options You can set the following Printer Function modes in this tab: Jump to the page for each Printer Function by clicking the function name. ■Job Spooling ■Quick Print Setup ■Sleep Time ■Status Monitor ■Macro ■Administrator (Windows ® 95/98/Me users only) ■Insert Command / File (Windows ® 95/98/Me users only) ■Page Protection ■Print Date & Time ■Density adjustment ■HRC (Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows® 2000/XP users only) ■TrueType Mode (Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows® 2000/XP users only) Job Spooling The printer saves data that you want reprinted. You can reprint a document without sending the data again from your PC (except for Secure Printing). ■Last Job Reprint: Reprint the last job ■Secure Print: Print the data with a password ■Public: Save the data without a password ■Proof: Save the data and print it For more information about the reprint function, see Reprint Button on page 4-4. If you want to prevent other people from printing your data using the Reprint function, clear the Use Reprint check box in the job spooling settings.
PRINTER DRIVER AND SOFTWARE 3 - 6 Quick Print Setup You can turn the Quick Print Setup function ON or OFF. A small selection window appears on your computer, this will then let you make changes to the settings of the following functions: ■Multiple Page ■Duplex ■Toner Save Mode ■Paper Source ■Media Type Sleep Time When the printer does not receive data for a certain period of time (timeout), it enters sleep mode. Sleep mode acts as though the printer was turned off. The default timeout is 5 minutes and it is automatically adjusted to the most suitable time-out setting depending on the frequency of your printer use (Intelligent Sleep Mode). While the printer is in sleep mode, the light on the display is off, but the printer can still receive data from the computer. Receiving a print file or document automatically wakes up the printer to start printing. Pressing one of the buttons will also wake up the printer. Status Monitor This reports the page number and printer status (any errors that occur on the printer) during printing. If you do not need the Printer Status and would like to speed up your job, set the printer status to OFF. Macro You can save a page of a document as a macro to printer memory or optional device. Moreover, you can execute the saved macro - in other words, 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, letter head formats or invoices. Administrator (Windows ® 95/98/Me users only) Administrators have the authority to limit the Number of copies, Scaling settings and Watermark settings. Insert Command / File (Windows ® 95/98/Me users only) This option allows data to be inserted into a print job. Page Protection Page Protection refers to a setting that reserves additional memory for the creation of full page images. Selections are AUTO, OFF, LTR (Letter-size paper), A4 or LGL (legal-size-paper). 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. When the image is very complicated and the printer has to wait to process the image before printing, use this function. Print Date & Time Date: Specifies the format of the date. Time: Specifies the format of the time.
3 - 7 PRINTER DRIVER AND SOFTWARE Density adjustment Increase or decrease the print density. HRC (Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows® 2000/XP users only) This option allows you to change the HRC (High Resolution Control) setting on your Brother HL-8050N series printer. HRC is a special function that offers improved print quality of characters and graphics that conventional laser printers cannot attain with resolutions of 300 or 600 dpi. ■Printer Default ■Light ■Medium ■Dark ■Off TrueType Mode (Windows NT ® 4.0, Windows® 2000/XP users only) TrueType fonts may be sent to your printer in one of the following ways: ■Download as TrueType ■Download as Bit Image ■Print as Graphics Destination You can select the output bin when you have installed the optional Offset Catch Tray (CT-8000) onto the printer. Accessories tab When you install the optional units, you can add those options and select their settings in the Accessories tab as follows. 1You can manually add and remove the options for any optional unit device or RAMDISK that are installed on the printer. Tray settings will match the installed options. 1 3 2
PRINTER DRIVER AND SOFTWARE 3 - 8 2Auto detection of printer options The Auto Detect function finds the currently installed optional unit devices and shows the available settings in the printer driver. When you click the Auto Detect button, options that are installed on the printer will be listed. You can manually add or remove options. Tray and other settings will match the installed options. Auto Detect function is not available under certain printer conditions. 3Paper Source Setting This feature automatically knows the size of paper in each paper tray. Support tab If you are using Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000 or XP, you can access the Support tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Brother HL-8050N series Properties screen. ■You can download the latest driver by accessing the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com ■You can see the printer driver version. ■You can check the current driver settings. ■You can print the Printer Settings page and the internal fonts list.