IBM HL-5250DN - Manual (Page 6)

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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 ® )...................................................................................26
Features in the BR-Script (PostScript ® 3™ language emulation) printer driver
(For Windows
®
) .............................................................................................................................34
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
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