User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Using this guide
- Safety precautions
- Trademarks
- Compilation and Publication Notice
- Shipment of the Printer
- 1 About this Printer
- 2 Printing Methods
- 3 Driver and Software
- Printer driver
- Software
- 4 Control Panel
- 5 Options
- 6 Routine Maintenance
- 7 Troubleshooting
- Appendix A
- Printer specifications
- Symbol and character sets
- Quick reference for bar code control commands
- Print bar codes or expanded characters
- Definition of Parameters
- Bar code mode
- Bar Code, expanded character, line block drawing and box drawing
- Bar Code
- Bar code human readable line ON or OFF
- Quiet zone
- Bar code, expanded character unit, line block drawing and box drawing
- Bar code, expanded character, line block drawing and box drawing offset in X-axis
- Bar code & expanded character offset in Y-axis
- Bar code, expanded character, line block drawing and box drawing height
- Expanded character width, line block drawing and box drawing
- Expanded character rotation
- Bar code data start
- Box drawing
- Line block drawing
- Expanded character data start
- Print bar codes or expanded characters
- Appendix (For Europe and Other Countries) B
- Appendix (For USA and Canada) C
- Index
A. Appendix
104
Other
1
We do not recommend Toner Save for printing Photo or Gray Scale images.
System Requirements
1
USB is not supported under Windows
®
95 or Windows NT
®
4.0.
2
Download the printer driver for Windows
®
XP Professional x64 Edition from http://solutions.brother.com.
3
Power Macintosh with an Apple original pre-installed USB port.
Model HL-5240 HL-5250DN
Power consumption Printing Average 610 W at 25 °C
(77 °F)
Average 610 W at 25 °C
(77 °F)
Standby Average 80 W at 25 °C
(77 °F)
Average 80 W at 25 °C
(77 °F)
Sleep Average 8 W Average 9 W
Noise level
Sound Pressure Printing 53 dB (A)
Standby 27 dB (A)
Sound power Printing LWAd = 6.7 Bell (A)
Standby LWAd = 4.3 Bell (A)
Ecology Power save Yes
Toner save
1
Yes
Computer Platform & Operating
System Version
Processor Speed Minimum
RAM
Recomm
ended
RAM
Available
Hard Disk
Space
Windows
®
95
1
, 98, 98SE
486/66MHz 8MB 16MB 40MB
NT
®
Workstation 4.0
1
Intel
®
Pentium
®
75 MHz
16 MB 32 MB 50 MB
2000 Professional
Intel
®
Pentium
®
133 MHz
64MB 128MB 50MB
Me
Intel
®
Pentium
®
150 MHz
32 MB 64 MB 50 MB
XP Home Edition
Intel
®
Pentium
®
300 MHz
128 MB 128 MB 50 MB
XP Professional
XP Professional x64
Edition
2
AMD Opteron™
AMD Athlon™ 64
Intel
®
Xeon™ with Intel
®
EM64T
Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 with Intel
®
EM64T
256 MB 256 MB 50 MB
Apple
®
Macintosh
® 3
OS
®
9.1 - 9.2
All base models meet minimum
requirements
32 MB 64 MB 50 MB
OS
®
X 10.2.4 or
greater
128 MB 160 MB