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Table of Contents
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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
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Driver and software ................................................................................................................................ 2-1
Printer driver ...................................... ........................................................................................... 2-1
For Windows® 95 and Windows NT® 4.0 (HL-5040, HL-5050 and HL-5070N) .................. 2-1
For Windows® 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