User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Basic User’s Guide MFC-L8600CDW/MFC-L8850CDW/MFC-L9550CDW
- User’s Guides and where do I find them?
- Table of Contents
- 1 General information
- Using the documentation
- Accessing Brother Utilities (Windows®)
- Accessing the Advanced User's Guide, and Software and Network User's Guide
- How to access the User’s Guides for Advanced Features
- Accessing Brother Support (Windows®)
- Accessing Brother Support (Macintosh)
- Control panel overview
- Shortcut Settings
- Set the date and time
- Enter personal information (Station ID)
- Volume settings
- 2 Loading paper
- Loading paper and print media
- Paper settings
- Acceptable paper and other print media
- 3 Loading documents
- 4 Sending a fax
- 5 Receiving a fax
- 6 Using PC-FAX
- 7 Telephone and external devices
- 8 Dialling and storing numbers
- 9 Making copies
- 10 Printing from a USB flash drive or digital camera supporting mass storage
- 11 How to print from a computer
- 12 How to scan to a computer
- A Routine maintenance
- B Troubleshooting
- C Settings and features tables
- D Specifications
- Index
Chapter D
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Important information for the toner cartridge life D
Colour/Mono setting on the printer driver D
Users can change the Colour/Mono settings on the printer driver as follows:
Auto
The machine checks the content of the document for colour. If colour is detected anywhere in
the document, it will print the whole of the document using the colour cartridges. In other words,
it will mix some of the toners to help achieve every shade detected in the document, increasing
the density of toner applied to the page. If no colour content is detected, it will print the
document in monochrome.
The default setting on your machine is Auto.
NOTE
The machine’s colour sensor is very sensitive and may perceive faded black text or an off-
white background as colour. If you know that your document is black and white and you want
to preserve colour toner, select Mono mode.
Colour
Whether the document contains colour or is just monochrome, your machine will print the
document using the colour cartridges.
Mono
Select this mode if the document has only black and greyscale text and/or objects. If your
document contains colour, this mode prints the document in 256 levels of grey using the black
toner.
NOTE
If either the Cyan, Magenta or Yellow toner reaches the end of its life while printing a colour
document, the print job cannot be completed. You can cancel your print job and choose to start
the print job again in Mono mode, as long as Black toner is available.
For more information about the settings in the printer driver, see Software and Network User's
Guide.
Toner Cartridge Life D
This product detects the life of the toner cartridges using the following two methods:
Detection by counting the dots of each colour that are necessary to create an image
Detection by counting the rotations of the developer roller
This product has a function that will count the dots of each colour used to print every document
and the rotations of each toner cartridge’s developer roller. The print operation will stop when
either one of the upper limits are reached. The upper limit is set above the number of dots or
rotations that would be required for the cartridge to perform consistently with its advertised
page yield. This function is intended to reduce the risk of poor print quality and damage to the
machine.