Brother International HL-3400CN Service Manual - Page 13

CHAPTER

1

PRODUCT

OUTLINE

Automatic

Interface

Selection

The

printer

can

automatically

select

the

bi-directional

parallel,

RS

-232C

serial,

or

MIO

/

NC

-

3100h

interface

depending

on

the

interface

port

through

which

it

receives

data.

With

this

feature,

the

printer

can

be

connected

to

more

than

one

computer.

Five

Emulation

Modes

The

printer

can

emulate

Hewlett-Packard

®

Color

PCL

°

5C

language

(PCL6

°

in

monochrome

mode),

PostScript

®

Level

2

language

emulation

(Brother

BR

-Script

Level

2)

printers,

the

industry

-standard

HP-GLTM

plotter

as

well

as

EPSON

®

FX-850TM,

and

IBM

°

Proprinter

XL

®

printers

(in

monochrome

mode).

It

is

possible

to

print

with

all

application

programs

that

support

one

of

these

printers.

Automatic

Emulation

Selection

The

printer

can

automatically

select

the

printer

emulation

mode

depending

on

the

print

commands

it

receives

from

the

computer

software.

With

this

feature,

many

users

can

share

the

printer

on

a

network.

Data

Compression

Technology

The

printer

can

internally

compress

the

received

graphics

and

font

data

in

its

memory

so

that

it

can

print

larger

graphics

and

more

fonts

without

additional

memory.

Various

Fonts

The

printer

has

72

scalable

fonts

and

12

bitmapped

fonts.

The

fonts

that

can

be

used

vary

according

to

the

current

emulation

mode.

In

PCL

mode,

it

is

also

possible

to

print

11

types

of

bar

codes.

In

BR

-Script

mode,

the

printer

has

66

scalable

fonts.

Bar

Code

Printing

This

printer

can

print

the

following

11

types

of

barcodes.

.

Code

39

.

US-PostNet

.

EAN-8

.

Code

128

.

ISBN

.

EAN-13

.

Interleaved

2

of

5

.

UPC

-A

.

EAN-128

.

Codabar

.

UPC

-E

CCITT

G3/G4

Since

the

printer

supports

the

CCITT

G3/G4

format

in

addition

to

HP

-compatible

formats,

it

can

quickly

receive

and

print

data

compressed

in

this

format.

Lock

Panel

If

the

panel

button

settings

have

been

changed,

the

printer

may

not

work

as

expected.

It

is

possible

for

the

administrator

of

the

printer

to

lock

the

settings

to

prevent

changes

from

being

made.

Power

Save

Mode

The

printer

has

a

power

save

mode.

As

laser

printers

consume

power

to

keep

the

fixing

assembly

at

a

high

temperature,

this

feature

can

save

electricity

when

the

printer

is

on

but

not

being

used.

The

factory

setting

of

the

Power

Save

mode

is

ON

so

that

it

complies

with

the

new

EPA

Energy

Star

new

specification.

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