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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 Windows®)......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