Table of Contents- Page 5

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Table of Contents

1

About this printer .................................................................................................................................... 1-1

What is in the box?  ....................................................................................................................... 1-1

Interface cable  .................................................................................................................... 1-1

Front view  ............................................................................................................................... 1-2
Back view  ............................................................................................................................... 1-3

Positioning the printer  ................................................................................................................... 1-4

Power supply  .......................................................................................................................... 1-4
Environment ........................................................................................................................... 1-4

What kind of paper can I use?  ...................................................................................................... 1-5

Type and size of paper  ........................................................................................................... 1-5
Recommended paper  ............................................................................................................. 1-6
Printable area  ......................................................................................................................... 1-7

Printing methods ........................................................................................................................... 1-8

Printing on plain paper ............................................................................................................ 1-8

Printing on plain paper from the paper tray  ........................................................................ 1-8
Printing on plain paper from the manual feed tray (For HL-5130 and HL-5140)  .............. 1-12
Printing on plain paper from the multi-purpose tray (MP tray) (For HL-5150D and HL-5170DN) 

1-14

Printing on thicker paper and card stock  .............................................................................. 1-17

Printing on thicker paper and card stock from the manual feed tray 

(For HL-5130 and HL-5140)  ......................................................................................... 1-17

Printing on thicker paper and card stock from the multi-purpose tray (MP tray)

(For HL-5150D and HL-5170DN)  ................................................................................. 1-20

Printing on envelopes  ........................................................................................................... 1-24

Types of envelopes to avoid ............................................................................................. 1-24
Printing on envelopes from the manual feed tray (For HL-5130 and HL-5140)  ............... 1-25
Printing on envelopes from the MP tray (For HL-5150D and HL-5170DN)  ...................... 1-29

Printing on transparencies .................................................................................................... 1-33

Printing on transparencies from the paper tray  ................................................................ 1-33
Printing on transparencies from the manual feed tray (For HL-5130 and HL-5140)  ........ 1-36
Printing on transparencies from the MP tray (For HL-5150D and HL-5170DN)  ............... 1-39

Duplex Printing  ........................................................................................................................... 1-43

Guidelines for printing on both sides of the paper  ............................................................ 1-43

Printing on both sides of the paper (manual duplex printing)  ............................................... 1-43

Manual duplex printing from the paper tray  ...................................................................... 1-43
Manual duplex printing from the manual feed tray (For HL-5130 and HL-5140)  .............. 1-44
Manual duplex printing from the multi-purpose tray (For HL-5150D and HL-5170DN)  .... 1-45

Printing on both sides of the paper (automatic duplex printing)  ........................................... 1-47

Guidelines for automatic duplex printing  .......................................................................... 1-47

2

Driver and software  ................................................................................................................................ 2-1

Printer driver  ................................................................................................................................. 2-1

For Windows

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 95/98/Me, Windows NT

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 4.0 and Windows

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 2000/XP  ............................... 2-1

For Macintosh

® ....................................................................................................................................................................... 2-1

For Windows

® ................................................................................................................................................................................ 2-2

Features in the PCL printer driver  ...................................................................................... 2-2
Features in the PS printer driver  ...................................................................................... 2-11

For Macintosh

® ........................................................................................................................................................................... 2-17

Software ..................................................................................................................................... 2-20

Software for Networks  .......................................................................................................... 2-20

BRAdmin Professional  ..................................................................................................... 2-20
Driver Deployment Wizard  ............................................................................................... 2-20
Web BRAdmin  .................................................................................................................. 2-20

Automatic Emulation Selection ............................................................................................. 2-21