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Table of Contents

1

About this Printer

1

Carton components ...................................................................................................................................1

Interface cable .....................................................................................................................................2
Front view ............................................................................................................................................3
Back view ............................................................................................................................................4

Positioning the printer ................................................................................................................................5

Power supply .......................................................................................................................................5
Environment ........................................................................................................................................5

2

Printing Methods

6

About paper ...............................................................................................................................................6

Type and size of paper ........................................................................................................................6
Recommended paper ..........................................................................................................................7
Unprintable area ..................................................................................................................................9

Printing methods......................................................................................................................................10

Printing on plain paper.......................................................................................................................10
Printing on thick paper, labels and envelopes ...................................................................................17

Duplex printing.........................................................................................................................................21

Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper .............................................................................21
Manual duplex printing ......................................................................................................................21
Automatic duplex printing (HL-4040CDN/HL-4050CDN/HL-4070CDW only)....................................24
Booklet printing (for Windows

®

 printer driver) ...................................................................................25

Printing photos from a digital camera ......................................................................................................26

PictBridge requirements ....................................................................................................................26
Setting your digital camera ................................................................................................................26
Printing images ..................................................................................................................................27
Connecting a camera as a storage device ........................................................................................28
DPOF printing....................................................................................................................................28

Printing data from a USB flash memory drive with direct print ................................................................29

Supported file formats .......................................................................................................................29
Creating a PRN or PostScript® 3™ (HL-4050CDN / HL-4070CDW only) file for direct printing .......29
Printing data directly from the USB flash memory drive ....................................................................31

3

Driver and Software

34

Printer driver ............................................................................................................................................34

Features in the printer driver (for Windows

®

) ....................................................................................37

Using the custom monochrome printer driver (for Windows

®

) ..........................................................47

Using the BR-Script3 printer driver

(PostScript

®

 3™ language emulation for Windows

®

)  (HL-4050CDN/HL-4070CDW only)...........48

Features in the printer driver (for Macintosh

®

) ..................................................................................55

Using the BR-Script3 printer driver

(Post Script

®

 3™ language emulation for Macintosh

®

) (HL-4050CDN / HL-4070CDW only) ..............62

Installing the BR-Script3 printer driver  ..............................................................................................62

Uninstalling the printer driver ...................................................................................................................65

Printer driver for Windows

®

 and Windows Vista™ and Windows Server

®

 2003...............................65

Printer driver for Macintosh

®

.............................................................................................................66

Software ..................................................................................................................................................67