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Table of Contents

1 About this Printer

What is in the box?....................................................................................................................................1
Interface cable.....................................................................................................................................1
Front view............................................................................................................................................2
Back view............................................................................................................................................3
Positioning the printer................................................................................................................................4
Power supply.......................................................................................................................................4
Environment........................................................................................................................................4

2 Printing Methods

About paper...............................................................................................................................................5
Type and size of paper........................................................................................................................5
Recommended paper..........................................................................................................................6
Printable area......................................................................................................................................8
Printing methods........................................................................................................................................9
Printing on plain paper, bond paper and transparencies .....................................................................9
Printing on thick paper, labels and envelopes...................................................................................15
Duplex Printing........................................................................................................................................19
Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper.............................................................................19
Manual duplex printing ......................................................................................................................19
Automatic duplex printing (For HL-5250DN) .....................................................................................22
Booklet printing (For Windows printer driver)....................................................................................23

3 Driver and Software

Printer driver............................................................................................................................................24
Features in the printer driver (For Windows®)...................................................................................26
Features in the BR-Script (PostScript® 3™ language emulation) printer driver (For W indows®)......34
Features in the printer driver (For Macintosh®).................................................................................37
Uninstalling the printer driver.............................................................................................................40
Software..................................................................................................................................................42
Software for networks (For HL-5250DN only)...................................................................................42
About emulation modes.....................................................................................................................43
Automatic emulation selection...........................................................................................................43
Automatic interface selection.............................................................................................................44
Remote Printer Console....................................................................................................................44

4 Control Panel

LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes)...................................................................................................................45
Service call indications............................................................................................................................49
Control panel buttons...............................................................................................................................51
Print a test page................................................................................................................................52
Print a Printer Settings page..............................................................................................................53
Print Fonts.........................................................................................................................................54
Network default setting (For HL-5250DN).........................................................................................55
Network default setting with APIPA protocol disabled (For HL-5250DN)..........................................55