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Table of Contents1 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