Brother HL-4040CDN

Table of Contents

1 About this Printer 1

Carton components...................................................................................................................................1

Interface cable.....................................................................................................................................2

Front view............................................................................................................................................3

Back view............................................................................................................................................4

Positioning the printer................................................................................................................................5

Power supply.......................................................................................................................................5

Environment........................................................................................................................................5

2 Printing Methods 6

About paper...............................................................................................................................................6

Type and size of paper........................................................................................................................6

Recommended paper............ .................... ................... ..................... ..................... .............................7

Unprintable area..................................................................................................................................9

Printing methods......................................................................................................................................10

Printing on plain paper.......................................................................................................................10

Printing on thick paper, labels and envelopes ................ ................... ..................... ..................... ......17

Duplex printing.........................................................................................................................................21

Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper .............. .................... ................... ..................... ...21

Manual duplex printing .... ................... ................... .................. ................... ................... ....................21

Automatic duplex printing (HL-4040CDN/HL-4050CDN/HL-407 0CDW only)................... ................. 24

Booklet printing (for Windows® printer driver)...................................................................................25

Printing photos from a digital camera .................... ................... .................... ..................... ......................26

PictBridge requirements....................................................................................................................26

Setting your digital camera................................................................................................................26

Printing images..................................................................................................................................27

Connecting a camera as a storage device........................................................................................28

DPOF printing....................................................................................................................................28

Printing data from a USB flash memory drive with direct print................................................................29

Supported file formats ..................... ..................... ................... ..................... .................... .................29

Creating a PRN or PostScript® 3™ (HL-4050CDN / HL-4070CDW only) file for direct print ing.... ...29

Printing data directly from the USB flash memory drive....................................................................31

3 Driver and Software 34

Printer driver............................................................................................................................................34

Features in the printer driver (for Windows®) ....................................................................................37

Using the custom monochrome printer driver (for Wi ndows®) ..........................................................47

Using the BR-Script3 printe r driver

(PostScript® 3™ language emulation for Window s®) (HL-4050CDN/HL-4070CDW only)..... ......48

Features in the printer driver (for Macinto sh®)..................................................................................55

Using the BR-Script3 printer driver

(Post Script® 3™ language emulation for M acintosh®) (HL-4050CDN / HL-4070CDW only). .............62

Installing the BR-Script3 printer driver ..............................................................................................62

Uninstalling the printer driver...................................................................................................................65

Printer driver for Windows® and Window s Vista™ and Windows Server® 2003. .................... ..........65

Printer driver for Macint osh®.............................................................................................................66

Software..................................................................................................................................................67