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
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About paper
Type and size of paper
The printer loads paper from the installed paper tray or the multi-purpose tray.
The names for the paper trays in the printer driver and this guide are as follows:
When looking at this page on the CD-ROM, you can jump to the page for each printing method by clicking p
in the table.
Printing Methods
Paper tray Tray 1
Multi-purpose tray MP Tray
Optional lower tray unit Tray 2 / Tray 3
Duplex tray for automatic duplex printing (For HL-5250DN) DX
Media type Tray 1 Tray 2/3 MP Tray DX Choose the media type
from the printer driver
Plain paper
75 g/m
2
to 105 g/m
2
(20 to 28 lb)
pp pp
Plain Paper
Recycled paper pp ppRecycled Paper
Bond paper
Rough paper–
60 g/m
2
to 161 g/m
2
(16 to 43 lb)
p
60 g/m
2
to
105 g/m
2
(16 to 28 lb)
p
60 g/m
2
to
105 g/m
2
(16 to 28 lb)
p
60 g/m
2
to
161 g/m
2
(16 to 43 lb)
Bond Paper
Thin paper
60 g/m
2
to 75 g/m
2
(16 to 20 lb)
pp pp
Thin Paper
Thick paper
105 g/m
2
to 161 g/m
2
(28 to 43 lb)
p
Thick Paper or Thicker
Paper
Transparency p
Up to 10 sheets
A4 or Letter
p
Up to 10 sheets
A4 or Letter
Transparencies
Labels p
A4 or Letter
Thicker Paper
Envelopes
p
Envelopes
Env. Thin
Env. Thick