Brother HL-6050 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Definitions of warnings, cautions, and notes .....................................................................................i

To use the printer safely ................................. ... ... .... ........................................................................ii

Trademarks ........................................................................................................................ .............iii

Compilation and Publication Notice ............................................. ....................................................iii

Table of Contents . ...........................................................................................................................iv

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- 7

Printable area ........................... .............................................................................................. 1-8

Printing methods .......................................................................................... ...............................1-10

Printing on plain paper .......................................................................................................... 1-10

Printing on plain paper from the paper tray ...................................................................... 1-10

Printing on plain paper from the multi-purpose tray (MP tray) .................................. ........1-13

Printing on thick paper, labels and card stock .................... ..................................................1-16

Printing on envelopes ......................................................... ... ... ... .........................................1-21

Types of envelopes to avoid ........................................................................... ..................1-21

Printing on envelopes from the MP tray .......................................................................... 1-23

Printing on transparencies ............................................................................ ... ... ... ... .... ... .....1-28

Printing on transparencies from the paper tray ................................................................ 1-28

Printing on transparencies from the MP tray .................................................................... 1-31

Printing on both sides of the paper .................................................................................. ... .. 1-35

Manual duplex printing from the paper tray (For PCL printer driver) ................................1-35

Manual duplex printing from the multi-purpose tray ......................................................... 1-36

Automatic duplex printing (available for HL-6050D and HL-6050DN only) ...................... 1-37

Booklet printing (for the PCL printer driver) (available for HL-6050D and HL-6050DN only) ..

...................................................................................................................................... 1 -39

Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper ....................... .....................................1-40

Carbon copy printing ............................................................................................................ 1-42

Driver and software ................................................................................................................................ 2-1

Printer driver ...................................... ........................................................................................... 2-1

For Windows® ......................................................................................................................... 2-2

Features in the PCL printer driver ...................................................................................... 2-2

Features in the BR-Script printer driver (PS printer driver) .............................................. 2-10

For Macintosh® ............................................ ......................................................................... 2-16

Software (Windows® users) ............................................................ ............................................2-19

Software for Networks .............. ............................................................................................2-19

BRAdmin Professional ..................................................................................................... 2-19

Driver Deployment Wizard ............................................................................................... 2-19

Web BRAdmin ...................................................................... ............................................2-19

Automatic emulation selection .................................................................. ............................2-20

Automatic interface selection .............................................................................................. ..2-20

Printer settings .......................................................................................... ..................................2-21

Factory settings ................. ................................................................................................... 2-21