Brother Hl5370dw Owners Manual
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Printing Methods 31 2 Booklet printing2 aPut paper in the paper tray or MP tray. bFor the Windows® printer driver 1Open the Properties dialog box in the printer driver. 2From the General tab, click the Printing Preferences button. 3From the Basic tab, choose Booklet from the Duplex / Booklet setting. 4Click the Duplex Settings... button, the Duplex Settings will appear. 5Choose Use Duplex Unit or Manual Duplex from the Duplex Mode Setting. 6Click OK. For the BR-Script printer driver 1Open the Properties dialog box in the printer driver. 2From the General tab, click the Printing Preferences button. 3From the Layout tab, choose Booklet from the Pages Per Sheet setting. 4Click OK. The printer will print a booklet automatically.
32 3 3 Driver and Software 3 Printer driver3 A printer driver is software that translates data from the format used by a computer to the format that a particular printer needs. Typically, this format is page description language (PDL). The printer drivers for the supported versions of Windows ® and Macintosh are on the CD-ROM we have supplied or on the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com/ . Install the drivers by following the Quick Setup Guide. The latest printer driver can be downloaded from the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com/ . (If you want to uninstall the printer driver, see Uninstalling the printer driver on page 70.) For Windows ®3 „Windows® printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product) „BR-Script (PostScript ® 3™ language emulation) printer driver For Macintosh 3 „Macintosh printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product) „BR-Script (PostScript ® 3™ language emulation) printer driver1 1To install the driver, see Installing the BR-Script3 printer driver on page 64. For Linux®123 „LPR printer driver „CUPS printer driver 1Download the printer driver for Linux from http://solutions.brother.com/ or a link on the supplied CD-ROM. 2Depending on Linux distributions, the driver may not be available. Note • For more information about Linux printer driver, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com/. • The printer driver for Linux may be released after the initial release of this product. Driver and Software3
Driver and Software 33 3 1For the information on supported Linux distribution and to download the printer driver, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com/. You can also download the printer driver from a link on the supplied CD-ROM. If you download from a link on CD-ROM, click Install Other Drivers or Utilities, then click For Linux users on the screen menu. Access to internet is required. Windows® printer driverBR-Script printer driverMacintosh Printer DriverLPR / CUPS printer driver 1 Windows® 2000 Professionalpp Windows ® XP Home Editionpp Windows ® XP Professionalpp Windows Vista ®pp Windows Server ® 2003pp Windows Server ® 2008pp Windows ® XP Professional x64 Editionpp Windows Server ® 2003 x64 Editionpp Mac OS X 10.3.9 or greaterpp Linux ®1p
Driver and Software 34 3 You can change the following printer settings when you print from your computer. „Paper Size „Orientation „Copies „Media Type „Resolution „Print Settings „Multiple Page „Duplex / Booklet 3 „Paper Source „Scaling „Reverse Print „Use Watermark 13 „Header-Footer Print3 „Toner Save Mode „Administrator 3 „Use Reprint13 „Sleep Time „Macro 13 „Page Protection13 „Density Adjustment2 „Error Message Printout13 „Improve Print Output 1These settings are not available with the BR-script printer driver for Windows®. 2These settings are not available with the Macintosh printer driver. 3These settings are not available with the Macintosh printer driver and the BR-Script printer driver for Macintosh.
Driver and Software 35 3 Features in the printer driver (for Windows®)3 (For more information, see the Help text in the printer driver.) Note • The screens in this section are on based Windows® XP. The screens on your computer will vary depending on your operating system. • You can access the Printing Preferences dialog box by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties dialog box. Basic tab3 You can also change settings by clicking the illustration on the left side of the Basic tab. aChoose the Paper Size, Orientation, Copies, Media Type , Resolution and Print Settings(1). bChoose the Multiple Page and Duplex / Booklet setting (2). cChoose the Paper Source(3). dClick OK(4) to apply your chosen settings. To return to the default settings, click Default(5), then OK.(4) Note This area (6) shows the current settings. 1 2 3 5 4 6
Driver and Software 36 3 Paper Size3 From the drop-down list choose the Paper Size you are using. Orientation3 Orientation selects the position of how your document will be printed (Portrait or Landscape). Copies3 The copies selection sets the number of copies that will be printed. „Collate With the Collate check box selected, one complete copy of your document will be printed and then repeated for the number of copies you selected. If the Collate check box is not selected, then each page will be printed for all the copies selected before the next page of the document is printed. Media Type3 You can use the following types of media in your printer. For the best print quality, select the type of media that you wish to use. Note • When using ordinary plain paper (20 to 28 lb) choose Plain Paper. When using heavier weight paper or rough paper choose Thick Paper or Thicker Paper. For bond paper, choose Bond Paper. • When you use envelopes, choose Envelopes. If the toner is not fixed to the envelope correctly when Envelopes has been selected, choose Env. Thick. If the envelope is crumpled when Envelopes has been selected, choose Env. Thin. Portrait Landscape Collate checked Collate non-checked Plain Paper Thin Paper Thick Paper Thicker Paper Bond Paper Env. Thick Env. Thin Recycled Paper Envelopes Transparencies 1 1 1 21 21 12 2
Driver and Software 37 3 Resolution3 You can choose the resolution as follows. „300 dpi „600 dpi „HQ 1200 „1200 dpi Note If you use the high quality 1200 dpi setting (1200 x 1200 dpi) the print speed will be slower. Print Setting3 You can manually change the print setting. „General This is a printing mode for general printing of documents. „Graphics This is the best mode for printing documents that contain graphics. „Office Document This is the best mode for printing office documents. „Text This is the best mode for printing text documents. „Manual You can change the settings manually by choosing Manual and clicking the Manual Settings... button. You can set brightness, contrast and other settings. Multiple Page3 The Multiple Page selection can reduce the image size of a page allowing multiple pages to be printed on one sheet of paper or enlarging the image size for printing one page on multiple sheets of paper. „Page Order When N in 1 option is selected, the page order can be selected from the drop-down list. „Border Line When printing multiple pages on one sheet with the Multiple Page feature you can choose to have a solid border, dash border or no border around each page on the sheet.
Driver and Software 38 3 Duplex / Booklet3 When you want to print a booklet or do duplex printing, use this function, and then from the Basic tab, choose a Duplex / Booklet (See Duplex printing on page 25). „None Disable duplex printing. „Duplex When you want to do duplex printing, use this function. If you choose Duplex and click Duplex Settings... button. You can set the following settings. •Duplex Mode •Use Duplex Unit In this mode, the printer prints on both sides of the paper automatically. •Manual Duplex In this mode, the printer prints all the even numbered page first. Then the printer driver will stop and show the instructions required to re-install the paper. When you click OK the odd numbered pages will be printed. •Duplex Type There are six types of duplex binding directions available for each orientation. •Binding Offset If you check the Binding Offset option, you can also specify the offset for binding in inches or millimeters. „Booklet When you want to print a booklet, use this function. To make the Booklet, fold the printed pages down the middle. If you choose Booklet and click Duplex Settings... button. You can set the following settings. •Duplex Mode •Use Duplex Unit In this mode, the printer prints on both sides of the paper automatically. •Manual Duplex In this mode, the printer prints all the even numbered page first. Then the printer driver will stop and show the instructions required to re-install the paper. When you click OK the odd numbered pages will be printed. •Duplex Type There are two types of duplex binding directions available for each orientation. •Binding Offset If you check the Binding Offset option, you can also specify the offset for binding in inches or millimeters.
Driver and Software 39 3 Paper Source3 You can choose Auto Select, Tray1, Tray21, Tray31, MP Tray or Manual and specify separate trays for printing the first page and for printing from the second page onwards. 1Tray2 and Tray3 are options. You must add Tray2 or Tray3 in the Accessories tab to select Tray2 or Tray3 from the driver. (See Accessories tab on page 44.) Advanced tab3 You can set the following in Printer Function: „Scaling (1) „Reverse Print (2) „Use Watermark (3) „Header-Footer Print (4) „Toner Save Mode (5) „Administrator (6) „Other Print Options (7) Scaling3 You can change the print image scaling. Reverse Print3 Check Reverse Print to reverse the data from up to down. 4 2 3 6 75 1
Driver and Software 40 3 Use Watermark 3 You can put a logo or text into your documents as a watermark. You can choose one of the preset watermarks, or you can use a bitmap file or text that you have created. When you use a bitmap file as a watermark, you can change the size of the watermark and put it anywhere you like on the page. When you use text as a watermark, you can change the Text, Font, Style, Size and Darkness settings. Header-Footer Print 3 When this feature is enabled, it will print the date and time on your document from your computer’s system clock and the PC login user name or the text you entered. By clicking Settings... you can customize the information. „ID Print If you select Login User Name, your PC login user name will print. If you select Custom and enter the text in the Custom edit box, the text you entered will print. Toner Save Mode3 You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save Mode, which cuts the print density. Note • We do not recommend Toner Save for printing Photo or Greyscale images. •Toner Save Mode is not available for 1200 dpi or HQ 1200 resolution. Administrator3 Administrators have the authority to limit the number of copies, scaling setting and watermark setting functions. „Password Enter the password into this box. „Set Password... Click here to change the password. „Set Click here current password. Then you can change the settings. „Copies Lock Lock the copy pages selection to prevent multiple copy printing. „Multiple Page & Scaling Lock Lock the current settings of the Multiple Page and Scaling options to prevent changes being made. „Watermark Lock Lock the current settings of the Watermark option to prevent changes being made.