Brother Mfc 5100c Multifunction Owners Manual

USING THE MFC AS A PRINTER   11 - 2
Choosing the Right Kind of Paper
To achieve high quality printing using your MFC, it’s very important to select 
the right kind of paper. Be sure to read “
Paper” page 2-3 of Chapter 2 in this 
manual before selecting and purchasing paper for the MFC.
Multi-purpose Sheet Feeder
The multi-purpose sheet feeder can feed plain paper, inkjet paper, glossy paper, 
transparencies and envelopes. When the MFC receives data from your 
computer, it begins the print process by...

11 - 3   USING THE MFC AS A PRINTER
Simultaneous Printing and Faxing
Your MFC can print data from your computer while sending or receiving a fax, 
or while scanning information into the computer. However, when the MFC is 
copying or receiving a fax on paper, it pauses the PC printing operation, and 
resumes when copying or fax receiving is complete. Fax sending will continue 
during PC printing.
Printer Operation Key
Ink Key
When you press Ink, the LCD shows: 
If you are having trouble with one of the...

PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (FOR WINDOWS® ONLY)   12 - 1
12
12Printer Driver Settings 
(For Windows® Only)
Using the Brother MFC-5100C Printer Driver
A Printer Driver is software that translates data from the format used by a 
computer into the format required by a particular printer, using a printer 
command language or page description language.
The printer drivers are on the supplied CD-ROM.  The latest printer driver can also 
be downloaded from the Brother Solutions Center at...

12 - 2   PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (FOR WINDOWS® ONLY)
Paper Tab
The paper tab screen allows you to set up the Paper Size, Paper Source, Paper 
Thickness, Orientation, Scaling, and Copy/Page Order.
To access the Brother printer driver, select Print from the File menu. In the Print dialog 
box, select Brother MFC-5100C from the Name drop down list. Click the Properties 
button. The Brother MFC-5100C on BRMFC: Properties dialog box will appear:
Select the Apply button to apply your selected settings.
To...

PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (FOR WINDOWS® ONLY)   12 - 3
Orientation
Orientation selects the position of how your document will be printed (Portrait 
or Landscape).
Copy/Page Order
Copies
The copies selection sets the number of copies that will be printed (1 to 50).
Collate
With the collate check box selected, one complete copy of your document will 
be printed and then repeated for the number of copies you selected. If the collate 
check box is not selected, then each page will be printed for all the copies...

12 - 4   PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (FOR WINDOWS® ONLY)
Paper Thickness
Depending on the thickness of the paper you are using, you can improve the 
quality of your output by selecting the correct thickness. This setting provides 
the best positioning of the paper for printing. For example if you were printing 
on thin paper, you would select Thin in the Paper Thickness selection to achieve 
the best paper handling and improved output for that paper type.
Regular
Thin 
Thick 
Thicker
Scaling
The Scaling...

PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (FOR WINDOWS® ONLY)   12 - 5
Quality/Color Tab
The Quality/Color tab screen provides Quality, Media type, Document type, 
Color/Mono settings, Bi-directional Printing settings and Fast Draft Mode. All 
of these selections are designed to offer the best quality output for your 
document needs.
Select the Apply button to apply your selected settings.
To return to the default settings, click the Default button, then click the Apply 
button.
Quality
The quality selection allows you to...

12 - 6   PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (FOR WINDOWS® ONLY)
Media
To achieve the best print results, the media being printed on should be selected 
in the driver. The MFC changes the way it places dots, depending on the 
selected media type.
Document
The printer driver will select the most suitable color matching method, 
depending on your document type. Generally, text and business graphics are 
printed vividly and photographic images are printed softly.
Auto: The printer driver automatically selects the...

PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (FOR WINDOWS® ONLY)   12 - 7
Color Matching
You can select the color matching method manually. Select the best one for your 
document.
Match Monitor
Suitable for photographic images. Color is adjusted to get the closest color 
match to the PC monitor.
Vivid Color
Suitable for business graphics such as charts, graphs, and text. The color is 
adjusted to give more vivid color.
(For Windows® 95/98/98SE/Me user’s) (For Windows® 2000 Professional/
Windows NT ® 4.0 user’s)
Custom...

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Cluster
This is suitable for business graphics such as charts, graphs and drawings, since 
this creates more sharp printouts. Moreover, the processing time is shorter.
Color Enhance
Selecting Color Enhance/True2Life ON enables the True2Life feature. This 
feature analyzes your image to improve quality sharpness, white balance and 
color density. This process may take several minutes depending on the size of 
the image, the speed and RAM memory of your...