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Table of Contents

1 About this Printer

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

2 Printing Methods

About paper...........................................................................................................................................2-1
Type and size of paper....................................................................................................................2-1
Recommended paper...................................................................................................................... 2-2
Printable area..................................................................................................................................2-4
Printing methods....................................................................................................................................2-5
Printing on plain paper, bond paper and transparencies .................................................................2-5
Printing on thick paper, labels and envelopes............................................................................... 2-11
Duplex Printing....................................................................................................................................2-15
Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper......................................................................... 2-15
Manual duplex printing ..................................................................................................................2-15
Automatic duplex printing (For HL-5250DN) .................................................................................2-18
Booklet printing (For Windows printer driver)................................................................................2-19

3 Driver and Software

Printer driver..........................................................................................................................................3-1
Features in the printer driver (For Windows®).................................................................................3-4
Features in the BR-Script (PostScript® 3™ language emulation) printer driver
(For Windows®).........................................................................................................................3-12
Features in the printer driver (For Macintosh®).............................................................................3-15
Uninstalling the printer driver.........................................................................................................3-18
Software..............................................................................................................................................3-20
Software for networks (For HL-5250DN only)...............................................................................3-20
About emulation modes................................................................................................................. 3-21
Automatic emulation selection.......................................................................................................3-21
Automatic interface selection.........................................................................................................3-22
Remote Printer Console................................................................................................................3-22

4 Control Panel

LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes).................................................................................................................4-1
Service call indications..........................................................................................................................4-5
Control panel button..............................................................................................................................4-7
Print a test page.. ............................................................................................................................4-8
Print a Printer Settings page............................................................................................................4-9
Print Fonts.....................................................................................................................................4-10
Network default setting (For HL-5250DN).....................................................................................4-11
Network default setting with APIPA protocol disabled (For HL-5250DN)......................................4-11