Brother Laserprinter Color Hl 3450cn User Guide

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This printer is heavy and weighs approximately 56kg (124 lbs). To avoid 
injury when moving or lifting this printer, be sure to use at least two 
people. 
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After unpacking the printer, check to see that you have all of the following 
parts:...

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Note 
An interface cable is not a standard accessory. Please purchase the 
appropriate cable for the interface you intend to use. Parallel cables should 
be IEEE 1284 compliant and should not exceed 1.8 metres (6 feet) in length. 
The power cord may differ slightly from this diagram, depending on the 
country where you purchased the printer. 
 
Note 
Depending on the country where you purchased and will use the HL-3450CN 
series model, you may have additional parts not...

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Top Cover 
Control Panel 
Front Cover 
Paper Cassette
Power Button 
Power Cord 
Connector 
Controller Box 
Rear Access Cover 
Rear Side Cover  

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This printer has the following standard features.  
2400 DPI Class Resolution 
This printer prints at a default resolution of 600 dots per inch (dpi).  You can 
achieve a higher print quality equivalent to 2400x600 dpi class resolution, 
by utilizing these Brother technologies: High Resolution Control (HRC) and 
Color Advanced Photoscale Technology (CAPT). 
High Speed and Color Laser Printing 
You can print crisp images in...

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Maintenance-Free and Economical Toner Cartridge 
The toner cartridge can print up to 14,000 (Black) and up to 8,500 (Cyan, 
Magenta and Yellow) single-sided A4 / Letter pages at 5% coverage. This 
printer uses one piece, easy-to-replace toner cartridges. 
Universal Paper Cassette 
This printer loads paper automatically from the paper cassette. Since the 
paper cassette is a universal type, a number of different paper sizes can be 
used. Even envelopes can be loaded from the...

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Five Emulation Modes 
This printer can emulate the Hewlett-Packard® Color PCL® 5C language 
(PCL6® in monochrome printing) printers, PostScript®3 language emulation 
(Brother BR-Script3) printers, the industry-standard HP-GL™ plotter as well 
as EPSON
® FX-850™ and IBM® Proprinter XL® printers (for monochrome 
printing only).  You can print with all application programs that support one 
of these printers. 
Automatic Emulation Selection 
This printer can automatically...

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Bar Code Printing 
This printer can print the following 13 types of bar codes:   
 Code 39    UPC-E 
 Interleaved 2 of 5   Codabar 
 EAN-8  FIM (US-PostNet) 
 EAN-13  PostNet (US-PostNet) 
 EAN-128  ISBN (EAN) 
 Code 128  ISBN (UPC-E) 
 UPC-A   
CCITT G3/G4 
Since this printer supports the CCITT G3/G4 format in addition to HP-
compatible formats, it can quickly receive and print data compressed in \
this 
format.  
Panel Lock Function 
If the panel button...

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Toner Save Mode 
This printer has an economical Toner Save Mode. By using this feature, 
you can substantially reduce printer operating costs and extend the life 
expectancy of the toner cartridges. 
Reprint Function 
You can reprint the last print job with a touch of a panel button, which 
allows reprinting of multiple copies of the job without sending the data again 
from the computer. 
If you have not installed an HDD or CompactFlash card, you can still reprint 
from...

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PANTONE® Calibrated 
There are many variables in process reproduction of colors generated by \
the HL-3450CN, any one of which may affect the quality of the PANTONE 
Color simulation, including: 
 Type of paper used 
 Type of toner used 
 Effective final resolution  
 Dot structure/halftones 
For optimal results, we recommend that the following materials and 
settings be used: 
1.  NEUSIEDLER Color copy 90g 
2.  Brother Toner Cartridges TN-02 BK/C/M/Y 
3.  Pantone...

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The following options are available for this printer:   
   
 
Paper Handling 
   LOWER TRAY UNIT (LT-34CL) 
Two lower tray units expand the paper source capacity. You can load extra 
paper or different sizes of paper. You can load Ledger, A3, B4, Legal, A4, 
Letter, or B5 (JIS and ISO) paper into this cassette at any one time. 
   A4/ LETTER CASSETTE (LC-34A) 
You can load A4, B5 (JIS and ISO), Executive or Letter paper, or...