14Windows® Printing

Printer Emulation

If you are printing from the Windows® environment, it is best to choose the GDI Brother MFC 9100 Series printer driver. Other emulations may reduce performance. If you need to print from DOS, the MFC 9100C will emulate EPSON LQ-510, LQ-850 and LQ-2550.

Using the Maintenance Utility Program for Printing from DOS

Before printing from DOS applications, you must use this DOS utility and select the paper size. You can select the following in this program.

Maintenance

Data 1

Data 2

Cleaning

Quality

Character Pitch

Black

Page Length

LF Pitch

Yellow

Character Set

Auto CR

Cyan

Auto LF

Zero Font

Magenta

Text Print Direction

Paper Size

 

Condensed

Black Emphasis

 

 

Code Page

Installing the Brother MFC 9100 Series DOS Tools

Use these tools only in the DOS environment. When you print in DOS mode, select an EPSON ESC/P (LQ-510, LQ-850, LQ-2550) compatible emulation driver in your application.

1Insert the supplied “CD-ROM 1” into your CD-ROM drive.

2Type CD x:DOS

Substitute the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive for “ x”.

3Type DOSETUP, then press Enter. The main screen appears on your computer.

4Make your selection from the list above.

Before printing, you must set the paper size in this utility and in your DOS application.

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Brother MFC-9100C manual Windows Printing, Printer Emulation, Using the Maintenance Utility Program for Printing from DOS