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Table of Contents

1

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

2

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

3

Driver and Software

Printer driver ............................................................................................................................................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.............................................................................................................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

4

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