Brother HL-5240 Printer User Manual


 
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Table of Contents
1 About this Printer
What is in the box?................................................................................................................................ 1-1
Interface cable................................................................................................................................. 1-1
Front view........................................................................................................................................ 1-2
Back view ........................................................................................................................................ 1-3
Positioning the printer............................................................................................................................ 1-4
Power supply................................................................................................................................... 1-4
Environment .................................................................................................................................... 1-4
2 Printing Methods
About paper ........................................................................................................................................... 2-1
Type and size of paper.................................................................................................................... 2-1
Recommended paper...................................................................................................................... 2-2
Printable area .................................................................................................................................. 2-4
Printing methods.................................................................................................................................... 2-5
Printing on plain paper, bond paper and transparencies................................................................. 2-5
Printing on thick paper, labels and envelopes............................................................................... 2-11
Duplex Printing .................................................................................................................................... 2-15
Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper......................................................................... 2-15
Manual duplex printing .................................................................................................................. 2-15
Automatic duplex printing (For HL-5250DN) ................................................................................. 2-18
Booklet printing (For Windows printer driver)................................................................................ 2-19
3 Driver and Software
Printer driver.......................................................................................................................................... 3-1
Features in the printer driver (For Windows
®
)................................................................................. 3-4
Features in the BR-Script (PostScript
®
3™ language emulation) printer driver
(For Windows
®
)......................................................................................................................... 3-12
Features in the printer driver (For Macintosh
®
)............................................................................. 3-15
Uninstalling the printer driver......................................................................................................... 3-18
Software .............................................................................................................................................. 3-20
Software for networks (For HL-5250DN only) ............................................................................... 3-20
About emulation modes................................................................................................................. 3-21
Automatic emulation selection....................................................................................................... 3-21
Automatic interface selection......................................................................................................... 3-22
Remote Printer Console................................................................................................................ 3-22
4 Control Panel
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes)................................................................................................................. 4-1
Service call indications .......................................................................................................................... 4-5
Control panel button .............................................................................................................................. 4-7
Print a test page .............................................................................................................................. 4-8
Print a Printer Settings page............................................................................................................ 4-9
Print Fonts..................................................................................................................................... 4-10
Network default setting (For HL-5250DN) ..................................................................................... 4-11
Network default setting with APIPA protocol disabled (For HL-5250DN)...................................... 4-11