Brother HL-5250DN series User Manual

Table of Contents
3
4
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
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
Driver and Software
Printer driver ............................................................................................................................................ 24
Features in the printer driver (For Windows ®) ................................................................................... 26
® TM
printer driver (For Windows )......34Features in the BR-Script (PostScript 3 language emulation) ®
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
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

Brother HL-5250DN series Specifications

General

Interface	Ethernet 10/100 Base-TX
Connectivity Technology	Wired
Data Link Protocol	Ethernet, Fast Ethernet
Ports Qty	1
Type	Print server
Product Type	Print server
Network Protocols	TCP/IP
Features	SNMP support
Compliant Standards	IEEE 802.3
Compatible Printers	Brother HL-5250DN
Operating Systems Supported	Linux