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135 Chapter 19
Thick line and thin line
appear alternately.
Turn OFF ‘Bi-Directional Printing’ from the ‘Quality/Colour’ tab in
the printer driver.
There are some dense lines. Turn ON ‘Reverse Order’ from the ‘Paper’ tab in the printer driver.
When using ATM fonts,
some characters are missing
or some are printed in the
same place.
If you are using Windows
®
95/98, select ‘Printer Settings’ from the
‘Start’ menu. Open ‘Brother MFC-5100C’ properties. Click ‘Spool
Setting’ on the ‘Details’ tab. Select ‘RAW’ from ‘Spool Data
Format’.
Printing is slow. In the Quality/Colour tab of the Print dialog box, select Auto in the
Document section.
Colour enhance is not
working correctly.
If the image data is not full colour (such as 256 colour) in your
application, Colour enhance does not function. Please use at least 24
bit colour data with the Colour enhance feature.
“Unable to write to LPT1” or
“LPT1 already in use” Error
Message appears.
1. Make sure the machine is on (plugged into the AC outlet) and
that it is connected directly to the computer using the IEEE-
1284 bi-directional parallel cable. The cable must not go
through another peripheral device (such as a Zip Drive,
External CD-ROM Drive, or Switch box).
2. Make sure the machine is not displaying an error message on
the LCD Display.
3. Make sure no other device drivers, which also communicate
through the parallel port, are running automatically when you
boot up the computer (such as, drivers for Zip Drivers, External
CD-ROM Drive, etc.)
Suggested areas to check: (Load=, Run=command lines in the
winanl file or the Startup Group).
4. Check with you computer manufacturer to confirm that the
computer’s parallel port settings in the BIOS are set to support
a bi-directional machine, i.e., Parallel Port Mode-ECP.
“MFC is Busy” or “MFC
Connect Failure” Error
Message appears.
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