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Table of Contents
1
About this Printer
What is in the box?
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1
Interface cable
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1
Front view
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2
Back view
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3
Positioning the printer
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4
Power supply
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4
Environment
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4
2
Printing Methods
About paper
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5
Type and size of paper
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5
Recommended paper
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6
Printable area
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8
Printing methods
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9
Printing on plain paper, bond paper and transparencies
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9
Printing on thick paper, labels and envelopes
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15
Duplex Printing
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19
Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper
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19
Manual duplex printing
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19
Automatic duplex printing (For HL-5250DN)
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22
Booklet printing (For Windows printer driver)
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23
3
Driver and Software
Printer driver
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24
Features in the printer driver (For Windows
®
)
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26
Features in the BR-Script (PostScript
®
3™ language emulation) printer driver (For Windows
®
)
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34
Features in the printer driver (For Macintosh
®
)
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37
Uninstalling the printer driver
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40
Software
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42
Software for networks (For HL-5250DN only)
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42
About emulation modes
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43
Automatic emulation selection
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43
Automatic interface selection
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44
Remote Printer Console
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44
4
Control Panel
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes)
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45
Service call indications
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49
Control panel buttons
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51
Print a test page
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52
Print a Printer Settings page
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53
Print Fonts
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54
Network default setting (For HL-5250DN)
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55
Network default setting with APIPA protocol disabled (For HL-5250DN)
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55