Brother Mfc 5200c Multifunction Owners Manual

							S - 2 SPECIFICATIONS
Print media
Copy
Paper Input  Paper Tray

Paper type:
Plain paper, inkjet paper (coated paper), glossy 
paper, transparencies and envelopes

Paper size:
Letter, Legal, A5, B5, Executive, envelopes 
(commercial No. 10, DL, C5), Post card, Index card.
Width  3.5-8.5 (89-216 mm)
Height 4.0-14 (101-356 mm)
Weight 17-32 lb (64-120 g/m
2)
For more details, see Paper Specifications for Paper 
Tray, page 2-2.

Maximum paper tray capacity: Approx. 100 sheets of 
20 lb (80 g/m2) plain paper.
Manual Feed Slot

Paper size:
Width 3.5-8.5 (89-216 mm)
Height 4.0-14 (101-356 mm)
Paper Thickness 0.005-0.01 in.
(0.12-0.25 mm)
Post card: 0.009 to 0.018 in.
(0.23 to 0.45 mm)
Paper OutputUp to 50 sheets of plain paper (Face up print delivery to 
the output paper support)
To prevent smearing the ink, we recommend removing 
printed pages from the output paper support immediately 
after they exit the machine.
Color/MonoColor/Mono
Copy SpeedMono
Up to 15 pages/minute (Letter paper)
Color
Up to 12 pages/minute (Letter paper)
Multiple CopiesStacks or Sorts up to 99 pages
Enlarge/Reduce25% to 400% (in increments of 1%)
ResolutionMax. 1200 dpi 
						

							SPECIFICATIONS S - 3
Fax 
* “Pages” refers to the “Brother Standard Chart No. 1” (a typical business letter, Standard 
resolution, MMR code). Specifications and printed materials are subject to change without 
prior notice. CompatibilityITU-T Group 3
Coding SystemMH/MR/MMR/JPEG
Modem Speed33600-2400 bps
Automatic Fallback
Document SizeADF Width: 5.8 to 8.5 (148 mm to 216 mm)
ADF Height: 5.8 to 14.0 (148 mm to 356 mm)
Scanner Width: Max. 8.5 (216 mm)
Scanner Height: Max. 11.7 (297 mm)
Scanning Width8.2 inches (208 mm)
Printing Width8.03 inches (204 mm)
Gray Scale256 levels (Error Diffusion)
Polling TypesStandard, Sequential
Contrast ControlAutomatic/Super Light/Super Dark
(manual setting)
Resolution•Horizontal  203 dot/inch (8 dot/mm)
•Vertical Standard - 98 line/inch (Black)
(3.85 line/mm)
196 line/inch (Color)
(7.7 line/mm)
Fine -196 line/inch 
(Black/Color)
(7.7 line/mm)
Photo - 196 line/inch (Black)
(7.7 line/mm)
Superfine -392 line/inch (Black)
(15.4 line/mm)
Speed Dial100 stations
BroadcastingUp to 150 locations; Up to 6 Groups
Automatic Redialone time
Auto Answer0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 rings
Speaker TypeMonitor
Communication SourcePublic switched telephone network
Memory TransmissionUp to 480 pages *
Out of Paper ReceptionUp to 480 pages * 
						

							S - 4 SPECIFICATIONS
Scanner 
Printer 
Interface
Color/MonoColor/Mono
TWAIN CompliantYes
ResolutionUp to 9,600 
× 9,600 dpi (interpolated)
Up to 600 × 2,400 dpi (optical)
Document SizeADF Width: 5.8 to 8.5 (148 mm to 216 mm)
ADF Height: 5.8 to 14.0 (148 mm to 356 mm)
Scanner Width: Max. 8.5 (216 mm)
Scanner Height: Max. 11.7 (297 mm)
Scanning Width8.2 inches (208 mm)
Gray Scale256 levels
Printer DriverWindows
® 95/98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional/XP and 
Windows NT® Workstation Version 4.0 driver supporting 
Brother Native Compression mode and bi-directional 
capability
Apple
® Macintosh® QuickDraw® Driver 
For OS 8.5-9.2/OS X v.10.1
Resolution2400 
× 1200 dots per inch (DPI)
1200 × 1200 dots per inch (DPI)
600 × 600 dots per inch (DPI)
600 
× 300 dots per inch (DPI)
450 × 150 dots per inch (DPI)
Print Speedup to 20 pages/minute (Mono)
up to 16 pages/minute (Color)
Printing Width8.03 inches (204 mm)
Disk-Based Fonts35
ParallelA bi-directional shielded parallel that is IEEE 1284 
compliant and not longer than 6 feet (1.8m).
USBA Standard Universal Serial Bus (1.1) cable that is not 
longer than 6 feet (1.8m).
To meet FCC emission requirements for the MFC, you must 
attach the included filter core and cable tie to the parallel 
interface cable. 
						

							SPECIFICATIONS S - 5
Computer Requirements
Minimum System Requirements
Computer Platform & Operating 
System VersionProcessor 
Minimum 
Speed Minimum 
RAMRecommended 
RAMAvailable 
Hard Disk 
Space
Windows
® 
Operating 
System95, 98, 98SEPentium 
75MHz24 MB 32 MB
110 MB MePentium 
150 MHz
32 MB 64 MB
NT® Workstation 4.0Pentium 
75MHz
2000 ProfessionalPentium 
133MHz
64 MB 128 MB
XPPentium 
233MHz240 MB
Apple
® 
IMac™/iBook™ 
G3/G4 
Operating 
SystemOS 8.5 - 8.51 
(Printing & PC-FAX 
Only)
All base 
models meet 
minimum 
Requirements32 MB 64 MB
50 MB OS 8.6 - 9.2 
(Printing, Scanning 
and PC-FAX Only)
Mac OS X v.10.1 
(Printing and Remote 
Setup Only)128 MB 160 MB
NOTE: USB is not supported under Windows
® 95 or Windows NT® WS 4.0. 
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							S - 6 SPECIFICATIONS
Consumable Items
Network (LAN) Board (Option)
When you add the optional Network (LAN) Board (NC-8100h), you 
can connect your MFC into the network to use the Internet FAX, 
Network Scanner, Network Printer and Network Management 
operations.
InkBlack and 3 individual color ink cartridges separate from 
the four print heads.
Service Life of Ink 
CartridgeApproximately 950 page/Black cartridge at 5% coverage 
with 450 
× 150 dpi resolution (Fast).
Approximately 450 page/Color cartridge at 5% coverage 
with 450 
× 150 dpi resolution (Fast).
These numbers are based on consecutive printing; the 
numbers will vary based on print frequency and number of 
pages.
The MFC periodically cleans the print head to maintain print 
quality. This process consumes a small amount of ink. 
						

							GLOSSARY   G - 1
GGGlossary
ADF (Automatic Document Feeder)  Refers to the number of 
pages that can be placed in the document feeder and fed one at 
a time automatically.
Auto Dial List  A listing of names and numbers stored in Speed Dial 
memory, in numerical order.
Automatic fax transmission  Sending a fax without picking up the 
handset of an external phone or pressing Hook.
Automatic Redial  A feature that enables your MFC to redial the last 
fax number if the original fax did not go through because the line 
was busy.
Auto Reduction  Reduces size of incoming faxes.
Batch Transmission  As a cost savings feature, all delayed faxes to 
the same fax number will be sent as one transmission.
Backup Print  Sets your MFC to print a copy of every fax that is 
received and stored in memory.
This is a safety feature so you will not lose message during a 
power failure.
Beeper  The sound the keys make when they are pressed, an error 
occurs or a document has been received or transmitted.
Beeper volume  Volume setting for the beep when you press a key 
or make an error.
Brightness  Changing the Brightness makes the whole image 
lighter or darker.
Broadcasting  The ability to send the same fax message to more 
than one location.
Cancel Job  Cancels a programmed job, like Delayed Fax or 
Polling.
CNG tones  The special tones (beeps) sent by fax machines during 
automatic transmission to tell the receiving machine that they are 
a from fax machine. 
						

							G - 2 GLOSSARY
Communication error (or Comm. Error)  An error during fax 
sending or receiving, usually caused by line noise or static.
Coding Method  Method of coding the information contained in a 
document. All fax machines must use a minimum standard of 
Modified Huffman (MH). Your fax machine is capable of greater 
compression methods, Modified Read (MR), Modified Modified 
Read (MMR) and Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), if the 
receiving machine has the same capability.
Compatibility Group  The ability of one fax unit to communicate 
with another. Compatibility is assured between ITU-T Groups.
Contrast  Setting to compensate for dark or light documents, by 
lightening dark documents or darkening light documents.
Cover Page  Prints a page at the other party’s machine, that 
contains the sender and recipient’s name and fax number, 
number of pages and comment. You can generate an electronic 
cover page at the other end with pre-programmed information 
from memory or you can print a sample cover page to fax with 
your document.
Cover Page Message  The comment that is on the Cover Page. 
This is a programmable feature.
Delayed Fax  Sends your fax at a later time that day.
Distinctive Ring  A service purchased from the Telephone 
Company that provides another phone number on an existing 
phone line. The Brother MFC uses the new number to simulate a 
dedicated fax line.
Dual Access  Your MFC can scan outgoing faxes or scheduled jobs 
into memory at the same time it is sending a fax or receiving or 
printing an incoming fax.
Easy Receive  Enables your MFC to respond to CNG tones if you 
interrupt a fax call by answering it.
ECM (Error Correction Mode)  Detects errors during fax 
transmission and resends the page(s) of the document that had 
an error.
Extension phone  A telephone on the fax number that is plugged 
into a separate wall jack. 
						

							GLOSSARY G - 3
External phone  A TAD (telephone answering device) or telephone 
that is plugged into the EXT jack of your MFC.
F/T Ring Time  The length of time that the Brother machine rings 
(when the receive mode setting is FAX/TEL) to notify you to pick 
up a voice call that it answered.
Fax Activity Report  Lists information about the last 200 incoming 
and outgoing faxes. TX means Transmit. RX means Receive.
Fax Forwarding  Sends a fax received in memory to another 
preprogrammed fax number.
Fax Receive Code  Press this code ( 51) when you answer a fax 
call from an extension or external phone.
Fax Storage  You can print stored faxes later, or retrieve them from 
another location using Fax Forwarding, Paging, or Remote 
Retrieval functions.
FAX/TEL  You can receive faxes and telephone calls. Do not use 
this mode if you are using a telephone answering device (TAD).
Fax tones  The signals sent by sending and receiving fax machines 
while communicating information.
Fine resolution  Resolution is 196 
× 203 dpi. It is used for small print 
and graphs.
Gray scale  The shades of gray available for copying and faxing 
photographs.
Group number  A combination of Speed Dial numbers that are 
stored on a Speed Dial for Broadcasting.
Help list  A printout of the complete Menu that you can use to 
program your machine when you do not have the User’s Guide  
with you.
Ink button  Cleans the print head, replaces an ink cartridge and/or 
check the available ink volume.
Interval  The preprogrammed time period between automatically 
printed Activity Reports. You can print Activity Reports on demand 
without interrupting this cycle.
LCD (liquid crystal display)  The display screen on the MFC that 
shows interactive messages during On-Screen Programming and 
shows the date and time when the machine is idle. 
						

							G - 4 GLOSSARY
Manual fax  When you lift the handset of your external telephone so 
you can hear the receiving fax machine answer before you press 
Start to begin transmission.
Menu mode  Programming mode for changing your machine’s 
settings.
Multi-Function Link Pro
® Suite  Turns your MFC into a printer and 
a scanner and enables PC faxing using the MFC.
Near Edge  Allows you to reduce unprintable areas.
Next Fax Reservation  Dual Access accepts the next original in the 
ADF for transmission while the Memory is full.
OCR (optical character recognition)  The bundled ScanSoft
™ 
TextBridge® software application converts an image of text to text 
you can edit.
Out of Paper Reception  Receives faxes into the MFC’s memory 
when the machine is out of paper.
Overseas Mode  Makes temporary changes to the fax tones to 
accommodate noise and static on overseas phone lines.
Paging  Feature enables your fax unit to call your pager when a fax 
is received into its memory.
Pause  Allows you to place a 3.5 second delay in the dialing 
sequence stored on Speed Dial numbers.
PhotoCapture Center
™  Allows you to print digital photos from your 
digital camera at high resolution for photo quality printing.
Photo resolution  A resolution setting that uses varying shades of 
gray for the best representation of photographs.
Polling  The process of a fax machine calling another fax machine 
to retrieve waiting fax messages.
Printer alarm  Audible alarm when the printer is not able to print.
Pulse   A form of rotary dialing on a telephone line.
Real Time Transmission  When memory is full, you can send 
documents in real time.
Remaining jobs  You can check which jobs are waiting in memory 
and cancel jobs individually. 
						

							GLOSSARY G - 5
Remote Activation  Allows you to transfer a fax call, answered at an 
external or extension phone, to the MFC. 
Remote Retrieval Access  The ability to access your MFC remotely 
from a touch tone phone.
Remote Retrieval Access Code  The four-digit code (159   ) that 
allows you to call and access your MFC from a remote location.
Resolution  The number of vertical and horizontal lines per inch. 
See: Standard, Super Fine and Photo.
Ring Delay  The number of rings before the MFC answers in FAX 
mode.
Ring Volume  Volume setting for the MFC’s ring.
Scanning  The process of sending an electronic image of an original 
paper document into your computer.
Scan to Card  You can scan a black and white or color original into 
a Media Card. Black and white images will be in TIFF file format 
and color images may be in PDF or JPEG file format.
Search  An electronic, alphabetical listing of stored Speed Dial and 
Group numbers.
Speaker Volume  You can set the volume when your machine is on 
Hook.
Speed Dial  A preprogrammed number for easy dialing. You must 
press the Search/Speed Dial button and then #, two digit code to 
start the dialing process.
Standard resolution  97 
× 203 dpi. It is used for regular size text 
and quickest transmission.
Station ID  The stored information that appears on the top of faxed 
pages. It includes the sender’s name and fax number.
Super fine resolution  392 
× 203 dpi. Best for very small print and 
line art.
TAD (telephone answering device)  You can connect an external 
TAD to the EXT. jack of the MFC for EXT. TEL/TAD mode.
Telephone Answer Code (FAX/TEL mode only)  When the 
machine answers a voice call, it pseudo/double-ring. You can pick 
up at an extension phone by pressing this code (#51).