Brother Mfc 5200c Multifunction Owners Manual
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13 - 1 PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) 13 13Printer driver settings (Windows ® Only) Printer driver settings You can change the following printer settings when you print from your computer: Media Type/Quality (Speed) Page Layout Near Edge Print Color Matching/Halftone Color Enhancement (True2Life®) Scaling Watermark Print Date & Time Quick Print Setup How to access the printer driver settings 1Select Print from the File menu in your application software. 2Select Brother MFC5200C (USB) Printer as your printer and click Properties. The Brother MFC5200C (USB) Printer dialog box will appear. The way you access the printer driver settings depends on your operating system and software applications. The screens shown in this section are from Windows® 98 Second Edition. The screens on your Computer may vary depending on your Windows Operating System.
PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) 13 - 2 Basic tab 1Select the Media Type and Quality. 2Select the Paper Size, Page Layout, Border Line (if any), Orientation, number of Copies, the page order and Near Edge Print. 3Select the Paper Feed. 4Click the Apply button to apply your selected settings. To return to the default settings, click the Default button, then click the Apply button. * This area shows the current settings of Quality, Paper Size, Page Layout, Orientation, Collate/Reverse Order, Near Edge Print and Color/Grayscale. 1 2 3 *
13 - 3 PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) Media Type To achieve the best print results, the media being printed on should be selected in the driver. The MFC changes the way it prints, depending on the selected media type. Plain Paper Inkjet Paper Glossy Paper (4 color) Glossy Paper (3 color) Transparencies Quality The quality selection allows you to choose the print resolution you want for your document. Print quality and speed are related. The higher the quality the longer it will take to print the document. The quality selections that are available will vary depending on the media type you select. Photo: 2400 × 1200 dpi. Use this mode to print precise images such as photographs. This is the highest resolution and slowest speed. S.Fine (Super Fine): 1200 × 1200 dpi. Use this mode to print precise text and photographs. Since the print data is much larger than normal mode, the processing time, data transfer time and print time will be longer. Fine: 600 × 600 dpi. Better print quality than normal mode and faster print speed than Super Fine. Normal: 600 × 300 dpi. Good print quality with typical print speed. Fast: 450 × 150 dpi. The fastest print mode and the lowest ink consumption. Use this mode to print large volume documents or a document for proofing. The print quality of black ink depends on the type 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.
PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) 13 - 4 Bi-Directional Printing When Bi-Directional Printing is selected, the print heads print in both directions and offer faster print speeds. When not selected, the print heads will only print in one direction to provide higher quality printouts. Media Type Color/Mono Print Quality Selection Plain Paper Color/Mono Fast, Normal, Fine, S.Fine Inkjet Paper ColorFine, S.Fine, Photo Inkjet Paper MonoS.Fine, Photo Glossy Paper (4 or 3 color) Color S.Fine, Photo Glossy Paper (4 or 3 color) MonoS.Fine, Photo Transparencies Color/MonoFine, S.Fine The factory settings are shown in bold.
13 - 5 PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) Paper Size The paper size selection provides a large selection of standard paper sizes. If you wish, you can create a custom size ranging from 3.5 × 4 (88.9 × 101.6 mm) to 8.5 × 14 (216.0 × 355.6 mm). From the drop-down box, select the Paper Size you are using. You can enter custom size by selecting User Defined. Select the proper paper thickness to improve the quality of your output. Page Layout The Page Layout selection can reduce the image size of a page allowing multiple pages to be printed on one sheet of paper or enlarging the image size for printing one page on multiple sheets of paper. If you are using Windows ® 95/98/98SE, the 4 in 1 layout is not available. Border Line When printing multiple pages on one sheet with the Page Layout feature, you can choose to have a solid border, dashed border or no border around each page on the sheet.
PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) 13 - 6 Orientation Orientation selects the position of how your document will be printed (Portrait or Landscape). Copies The Copies selection sets the number of copies that will be printed (1 to 999). 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 of the document is printed. Reverse Order Reverse Order prints the pages of your document in the opposite order. Near Edge Print Near Edge Print feature expands the printable area at the bottom edge of the paper up to 0.12 inch (3 mm). Print time will be slightly slower.Portrait (Vertical)Landscape (Horizontal)
13 - 7 PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) Paper Feed The Paper Feed pull-down box allows you to choose how the machine feeds paper. Auto Feed: The machine feeds subsequent pages automatically. Manual Feed: The machine feeds one sheet at a time. After the first page is printed, the machine’s LCD instructs you to insert a sheet of paper. Use this mode if you are using the Manual Feed Slot for thicker paper. (See Using the manual feed slot on page 12-3.)
PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) 13 - 8 Advanced tab Change the tab settings by selecting one of the following icons: 1.Color 2.Scaling 3.Watermark 4.Device Options To return to the default settings, click the Default button. 1234
13 - 9 PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) Color Color/Grayscale This selection allows a color document to be printed in black and white using gray scale. Image Type The printer driver will select the most suitable color matching and half tone method, depending on your image type. Generally, text and business graphics are printed vividly and photographic images are printed softly. Auto: The printer driver automatically selects the image 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 and halftone method, manually select this mode.
PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS (WINDOWS® ONLY) 13 - 10 Custom Image Type You can select the color matching method manually. Select the best one for your document. Match Monitor Color is adjusted to get the closest color match to the PC monitor. Natural: Suitable for photographic images. This color is adjusted to set the natural color. Vivid: Suitable for business graphics such as charts, graphics and text. The color is adjusted to give more vivid color. Halftone Pattern The MFC can use two methods (Diffusion or Dither) to arrange where to place dots to express halftones. There are some predefined patterns set for this and you can select which one to use for your document. Select the appropriate method. Diffusion: Dots are placed at random to create the halftones. This method of printing is more suitable for printing photographs that have delicate shades and graphics. Dither: Dots are arranged in a pre-defined pattern to make halftones. This type of printing is more suitable to printing graphics that have definite color boundaries or for printing charts such as business charts. Some halftone settings cannot be selected with certain combinations of Media Type and Quality selections.