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Table of Contents
1
About this printer .................................................................................................................................... 1-1
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
What kind of paper can I use? ...................................................................................................... 1-5
Type and size of paper ........................................................................................................... 1-5
Recommended paper ............................................................................................................. 1-6
Printable area ......................................................................................................................... 1-7
Printing methods ........................................................................................................................... 1-8
Printing on plain paper ............................................................................................................ 1-8
Printing on plain paper from the paper tray ........................................................................ 1-8
Printing on plain paper from the manual feed tray (For HL-5030 and HL-5040) .............. 1-12
Printing on plain paper from the multi-purpose tray (MP tray)
(For HL-5050 and HL-5070N) ...................................................................................... 1-14
Printing on thicker paper and card stock .............................................................................. 1-17
Printing on thicker paper and card stock from the manual feed tray
(For HL-5030 and HL-5040) ......................................................................................... 1-17
Printing on thicker paper and card stock from the multi-purpose tray (MP tray)
(For HL-5050 and HL-5070N) ...................................................................................... 1-20
Printing on envelopes ........................................................................................................... 1-24
Types of envelopes to avoid ............................................................................................. 1-24
Printing on envelopes from the manual feed tray (For HL-5030 and HL-5040) ............... 1-25
Printing on envelopes from the MP tray (For HL-5050 and HL-5070N) ........................... 1-29
Printing on transparencies .................................................................................................... 1-33
Printing on transparencies from the paper tray ................................................................ 1-33
Printing on transparencies from the manual feed tray (For HL-5030 and HL-5040) ........ 1-36
Printing on transparencies from the MP tray (For HL-5050 and HL-5070N) .................... 1-39
Printing on both sides of the paper (manual duplex printing) ............................................... 1-43
Manual duplex printing from the paper tray ...................................................................... 1-43
Manual duplex printing from the manual feed tray (For HL-5030 and HL-5040) .............. 1-44
Manual duplex printing from the multi-purpose tray (For HL-5050 and HL-5070N) ......... 1-45
Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper ............................................................ 1-46
2
Driver and software ................................................................................................................................ 2-1
Printer driver ................................................................................................................................. 2-1
For Windows
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95 and Windows NT
®
4.0 (HL-5040, HL-5050 and HL-5070N) .................. 2-1
For Windows
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98/Me and Windows
®
2000/XP .................................................................. 2-1
For Macintosh
®
................................................................................................................... 2-1
For Windows
®
......................................................................................................................... 2-2
Features in the PCL printer driver ...................................................................................... 2-2
Features in the PS printer driver ...................................................................................... 2-10
For Macintosh
®
..................................................................................................................... 2-15
Software ..................................................................................................................................... 2-17
Software for Networks ..........................................................................................................2-17
BRAdmin Professional ..................................................................................................... 2-17
Driver Deployment Wizard ............................................................................................... 2-17
Web BRAdmin .................................................................................................................. 2-17
Automatic Emulation Selection ............................................................................................. 2-18