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: 
 
 
Fig. 1-1 
! Caution, Warning 
The Toner Cartridges, OPC Belt cartridge, Oil Bottle and Fuser Cleaner are 
packed inside a separate carton as a starter kit. Do not open them now. Only 
open them when you are ready to install them. The OPC Belt Cartridge must 
not be exposed to light for any length of time or it will be damaged. 
Printer OPC Belt Cartridge 
Fuser Cleaner 
Power Cord 
Toner Cartridges  
(Black, C
yan, magenta and Yellow) 
CD-ROM 
Envelope Adapter 
Quick Setup Guide 
Oil Syringe
Oil Bottle 
Standard PaperCassette 
						

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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 listed above. 
 
Note 
We recommend keeping spares of the following consumable items at all 
times. When these are exhausted, the printer will cease printing. 
 Toner Cartridges (TN-02BK, TN-02C, TN-02M, TN-02Y) 
 Waste Toner Pack (WT-2CL) 
 Oil Bottle (FO-2CL) 
 Fuser Cleaner (CR-2CL) 
 OPC Belt Cartridges (OP-2CL) 
  
						

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Control Panel 
Front Cover 
Paper Cassette
Power Button 
Power Cord 
Connector 
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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 brilliant 24-bit color. 
This printer can print at a speed up to 24 pages per minute (ppm) in 
monochrome mode and up to 6 pages per minute (ppm) in full color mode 
on A4/ Letter size paper. The controller utilizes a high speed 64-bit RISC 
microprocessor and special hardware chips, so the process speed is very 
fast.  
Color Advanced Photoscale Technology  (CAPT) 
This printer can print graphics in 256 shades for each color in HP® color 
printer PCL5C™ emulation and BR-Script level 3, producing nearly 
photographic quality. CAPT mode is most effective when you print 
photographic images. 
High Resolution Control (HRC) 
The High Resolution Control (HRC) technology provides clear and crisp 
printouts and improves even the 600-dpi resolution. This mode is most 
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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 paper cassette. For detailed 
paper specifications, see ‘Paper Handling’ in Chapter 3. 
Three Interfaces 
This printer has three interfaces: high speed bi-directional parallel, USB and 
Ethernet 10/100Base TX.  If your application software supports the bi-
directional parallel interface, you can monitor the printer status. It is fully 
compatible with the industry-standard bi-directional parallel interface. 
The Brother network board (NC-4100h) is factory installed in the HL-
3450CN, this enables you to use this printer in the TCP/IP, IPS/SPX, Apple 
Talk, DLC/LLC, Banyan VINES, DEC LAT and NetBEUI environments. The 
CD-ROM supplied with the HL-3450CN printer includes  many useful 
utilities, such as BRAdmin Professional for the administrator and Brother 
network printing software.   For setup, see the Network User’s Guide. 
Automatic Interface Selection 
This printer can automatically select the bi-directional parallel, USB or 
Ethernet 10/100Base TX interface, depending on the interface port through 
which it receives data.  With this feature, the printer can be connected to 
more than one computer.   
						

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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 select the printer emulation mode depending 
on the print commands it receives from the computer software. With this 
feature, many users can share the printer on a network. 
Data Compression Technology 
This printer can internally compress the received graphics and font data in 
its memory so it can print larger graphics and more fonts without the need 
for additional memory.  
Various Fonts 
This printer has 66 scalable and 12 bitmapped fonts. The fonts that can be 
used will vary according to the selected emulation mode. 
In PCL mode, you can print 13 kinds of bar codes that are listed on the next 
page.  In BR-Script mode, the printer has 165 scalable fonts.  
						

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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 settings have been changed, the printer may not work\
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you expect. If you are an administrator of this printer, you can lock yo\
ur 
settings to prevent changes from being made.  
See “LOCK PANEL” in the 
“SETUP” menu in Chapter 4 . 
Power Save Mode 
This printer has a power save mode. Since laser printers consume power t\
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keep the fixing assembly at a high temperature, this feature can save 
electricity when the printer is on but not being used. The factory setti\
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the Power Save mode is ON so that it complies with the new EPA Energy 
Star specification.  
						

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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 RAM.  See“REPRINT BUTTON” in Chapter 4 for more information. 
When there is not enough memory to print the last job, you can reprint the 
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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 Mode (600 dpi x 600 dpi) 
 
Network 
Ethernet 10/100BaseTX enables you to use the printer in the followkng 
environments. 
(TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, AppleTalk, DLC/LLC, VINES, LAT, NetBEUI)  
Also, many useful utilities, such as BRAdmin Professional and Brother 
Network Printing software for the Network administrator, are included.  \
For 
details about the utilities, see the documentation included on the CD-RO\
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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 Com 10, 
or DL envelopes from the A4/Letter Cassette at any one time. 
   DUPLEX UNIT (DX-3400) 
By installing the Duplex Unit DX-3400, you can perform duplex printing. 
With the Duplex Unit installed, you can print on 330 x 483 (13x19), A3, 
A4, B4, B5 (JIS and ISO), Executive, Ledger, Legal or Letter size paper. 
Hard Disk Drive (HD-6G/HD-EX) 
By installing the Hard Disk Drive, HD-6G/HD-EX, you can save macros, 
print log and fonts on it, and also select your print job and re-print it through 
the network.