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 loading paper from the multi-purpose 
sheet feeder. 
1Select the print command from your PC.
2Your PC sends a print command and data to the MFC. The LCD shows 
RECEIVING DATA.
3If there are more pages, the MFC begins to print the next page automatically.
4When the MFC finishes printing all data, it returns to display the date and time.
NoteYou can select paper source, paper size, and orientation in your application 
software. If your application software does not support your custom paper size, 
select the next larger paper size. Then adjust the print area by changing the right 
and left margins in your application software. 
						

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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 
ink colors, you may need to clean the 
print head. (See page 19-9.)
If you got an error message NEAR EMPTY or INK EMPTY, you will need to 
replace the ink cartridge for the appropriate color. 
(See 
Error Messages, page 19-1.)
Stop/Exit Key
If the LCD shows REMAINED DATA, you can clear data remaining in the 
printer memory by pressing Stop/Exit.
Checking the Print Quality
If you want to check the print quality and find out how to improve it, See How 
to Improve Print Quality
, page 19-9.
1.CLEANING
2.REPLACE INK 
						

							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 http://solutions.brother.com.
For more detailed information, please see the on-line Help in the printer driver.
NoteThe screens shown in this section are from Windows® 98. The screens on your 
PC may vary depending on your Windows Operating System. 
						

							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 return to the default settings, click the Default button, then click the Apply 
button.
1Select the Paper Size and Orientation.
2Select number of Copies and Page Order.
3Select Paper Thickness, Scaling and Paper Source.
Paper Size
The paper size selection provides a large selection of standard paper sizes or you 
can even create custom sizes ranging form 3.5 × 5” to 8.5 × 14”. To select the 
paper size you want to use click the icon.
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							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 
selected before the next page in the document is printed.
Reverse Order
Reverse Order prints the pages of your document in the opposite order. 
						

							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 feature reduces or enlarges your document from 50% to 200%. 
From the pull-down box you can select from the preset settings or a free setting. 
You can also select 2 in 1 printing for printing two pages on one sheet of paper.
Paper Source
The Paper Source pull-down allows you to choose the source of the media you 
are using.
Feeder
Manual Feed
For Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 and Windows® 2000 Professional, you can also 
select 4 in 1 printing.  
						

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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 choose the print resolution you want your 
document. Print quality and speed are related. The higher the quality the longer 
it will take to print the document. The quality selections available vary 
depending on the media selection.
Draft: The fastest print mode and the lowest ink consumption. Use this mode to 
print large volume documents or a document for proofing.
Normal: Recommended for ordinary printouts.
Fine: Better print quality than normal mode and faster print speed than Super 
Fine.
Super Fine: Use this mode to print precise images such as photographs. Since 
the print data is much larger than normal mode, the processing time, data 
transfer time and print time will be longer. 
						

							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 document type.
Photo: Select this mode for photographic images.
Graphics: Select this mode for documents that contain text or business graphics 
(charts or clip art).
Custom: If you want to select the color matching method and halftone method, 
manually select this mode.Paper Type Recommended Print Quality Selection
Plain Paper Normal
Inkjet Paper Fine
Glossy Paper (4 color) Super Fine
Glossy Paper (3 color) Super Fine
Transparencies Fine
Transparencies (mirror) Fine
NoteThe print quality of black ink varies depending on the kind of glossy paper you 
are using. Black ink is used when you select Glossy Paper (4 color). If the 
glossy paper you are using repels the black ink, select Glossy Paper (3 color), 
which simulates black ink by combining the three ink colors. 
						

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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 Setting
You can customize your settings by selecting the type of Halftone or Color 
Enhance/True2Life.
Halftone Pattern
The MFC can use several methods to arrange where to place dots to express 
halftones. There are some predefined patterns used to place dots and you can 
select which one is used for your document. Select the appropriate method. 
Photo
This method creates smooth halftones so that this is suitable for photographic 
images. It takes more time to process data, but this can express more levels of 
halftones and creates more natural images. 
						

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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 computer.
Color Enhance/True2Life ON
Adjusts the color in the image for better print quality. Print time will be longer 
with True2Life set to ON.
Sharpness
This setting enhances the detail of an image.  This is similar to adjusting the fine 
focus on a camera.  If the focus is off a little you will not be able to clearly see 
the fine details of an image.
Color Density
This adjusts the total amount of color in the image. You can increase or decrease 
the amount of color in an image to improve a picture which may appear washed 
out or weak.
White Balance
This adjusts the hue of the white sections of an image.  Lighting, camera settings 
and other influences will effect the appearance of white.  The white parts of a 
picture may appear to be slightly pink, yellow or some other color.  By using 
this adjustment you can correct this effect and bring the white sections back to 
pure white.
Brightness
Change the brightness of the whole image lighter or darker. Moving the scroll 
bar to the left makes your image darker and moving the scroll bar to the right 
makes your image lighter. 
Contrast
Change the contrast of an image. Darker sections will be more dark and lighter 
sections will be more light as you increase the contrast. Increase the contrast 
when you want an image to be clearer. Decrease the contrast when you want an 
image to be more subdued.
Red 
Increase the intensity of the Red color to add red to the whole image. 
Green 
Increase the intensity of the Green color to add green to the whole image. 
Blue
Increase the intensity of the Blue color to add blue to the whole image.