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... use a vacuum cleaner to ignite inside or outside of the printer. • DO NOT use cleaning materials that you have unplugged the printer from the AC power outlet. • Use neutral detergents. Doing this might cause the toner dust to clean up scattered toner. DO NOT remove or damage the caution labels located on...
... use a vacuum cleaner to ignite inside or outside of the printer. • DO NOT use cleaning materials that you have unplugged the printer from the AC power outlet. • Use neutral detergents. Doing this might cause the toner dust to clean up scattered toner. DO NOT remove or damage the caution labels located on...
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Toner cartridge ...61 Drum unit ...68 Cleaning ...73 Cleaning the outside of the printer...73 Cleaning the inside of Conformity ...121 vi for your safety ...120 EC Declaration of the printer...74 Cleaning the corona wire...HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) ...110 Print bar codes or expanded characters 110 B Appendix (for Europe and Other Countries) 117 Brother numbers ...117 Important information: regulations ...118 Radio interference (220 to 240 volt model only 118 International ENERGY STAR® Compliance Statement 118 IEC 60825-1 specification (220 to 240 volt model only 118 Internal laser...
Toner cartridge ...61 Drum unit ...68 Cleaning ...73 Cleaning the outside of the printer...73 Cleaning the inside of Conformity ...121 vi for your safety ...120 EC Declaration of the printer...74 Cleaning the corona wire...HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) ...110 Print bar codes or expanded characters 110 B Appendix (for Europe and Other Countries) 117 Brother numbers ...117 Important information: regulations ...118 Radio interference (220 to 240 volt model only 118 International ENERGY STAR® Compliance Statement 118 IEC 60825-1 specification (220 to 240 volt model only 118 Internal laser...
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...not to the USB port of the following parts. 1 1 Printer Quick Setup Guide CD-ROM Drum unit and starter toner cartridge assembly AC power cord Interface cable 1 The interface cable is done during the printer driver installation process. Third party USB ports are not supported ...for Macintosh®. Network cable (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) Use a straight-through...
...not to the USB port of the following parts. 1 1 Printer Quick Setup Guide CD-ROM Drum unit and starter toner cartridge assembly AC power cord Interface cable 1 The interface cable is done during the printer driver installation process. Third party USB ports are not supported ...for Macintosh®. Network cable (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) Use a straight-through...
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Driver and Software 3 28 You can change the following printer settings when you print from your computer. Paper Size Multiple Page Orientation Copies Media Type Paper Source Resolution Toner Save Mode Print Setting Manual Duplex printing 1 Watermark 2 Scaling Job ... Printout 2 Improve Print Output 1 These settings are not available with the Mac OS® 10.2.4. 2 These settings are not available with the Macintosh® printer driver. 3 These settings are not available with the HL-2140.
Driver and Software 3 28 You can change the following printer settings when you print from your computer. Paper Size Multiple Page Orientation Copies Media Type Paper Source Resolution Toner Save Mode Print Setting Manual Duplex printing 1 Watermark 2 Scaling Job ... Printout 2 Improve Print Output 1 These settings are not available with the Mac OS® 10.2.4. 2 These settings are not available with the Macintosh® printer driver. 3 These settings are not available with the HL-2140.
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...Plain Paper. Thin Recycled Paper 3 Note • When using heavier weight paper or rough paper choose Thick Paper or Thicker Paper. If the toner is crumpled when Envelopes has been selected, choose Env.Thin. For the best print quality, select the type of media in the manual feed ...slot. 31 Paper Source 3 You can use the following types of media that you put paper in your printer. Note The printer automatically turns on the Manual Feed mode when you wish to use envelopes, choose Envelopes. Driver and Software Media Type 3 You can ...
...Plain Paper. Thin Recycled Paper 3 Note • When using heavier weight paper or rough paper choose Thick Paper or Thicker Paper. If the toner is crumpled when Envelopes has been selected, choose Env.Thin. For the best print quality, select the type of media in the manual feed ...slot. 31 Paper Source 3 You can use the following types of media that you put paper in your printer. Note The printer automatically turns on the Manual Feed mode when you wish to use envelopes, choose Envelopes. Driver and Software Media Type 3 You can ...
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... Mode for printing Photo or Gray Scale images. • Toner Save Mode is not available for HQ 1200 resolution. 32 Advanced tab 1 2 3 4 5 Driver and Software 3 3 Change the tab settings by clicking one of the following ... Setting (4) Device Options (5) Print Quality 3 Resolution You can change the resolution as follows: • HQ 1200 • 600 dpi • 300 dpi Toner Save Mode You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save Mode, which reduces the print density (print appears lighter).
... Mode for printing Photo or Gray Scale images. • Toner Save Mode is not available for HQ 1200 resolution. 32 Advanced tab 1 2 3 4 5 Driver and Software 3 3 Change the tab settings by clicking one of the following ... Setting (4) Device Options (5) Print Quality 3 Resolution You can change the resolution as follows: • HQ 1200 • 600 dpi • 300 dpi Toner Save Mode You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save Mode, which reduces the print density (print appears lighter).
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...the LEDs light up in the quick print setting. • Multiple Page • Manual Duplex • Toner Save Mode • Paper Source • Media Type Sleep Time When the printer does not receive data for a certain period of times you can save time and increase printing speed for ... macro (you can use . By placing a check in the selection boxes for power saving. Macro (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) You can choose which will be 5 minutes. When you to the printer's memory. While the printer is in memory. Click Off to reprint. Driver and Software Job Spooling The...
...the LEDs light up in the quick print setting. • Multiple Page • Manual Duplex • Toner Save Mode • Paper Source • Media Type Sleep Time When the printer does not receive data for a certain period of times you can save time and increase printing speed for ... macro (you can use . By placing a check in the selection boxes for power saving. Macro (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) You can choose which will be 5 minutes. When you to the printer's memory. While the printer is in memory. Click Off to reprint. Driver and Software Job Spooling The...
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...user name will print. Note The Density adjustment is enabled, it will print. 3 Density adjustment Increase or decrease the print density. If you are Printer Default (ON), ON and OFF. Improve Print Output This feature allows you to HQ 1200. Error Message Printout You can customize the ...information. • ID Print If you choose this setting, the toner fixing on page 82. Selections are printing only a few pages, you do not need to a thin setting. • Improve...
...user name will print. Note The Density adjustment is enabled, it will print. 3 Density adjustment Increase or decrease the print density. If you are Printer Default (ON), ON and OFF. Improve Print Output This feature allows you to HQ 1200. Error Message Printout You can customize the ...information. • ID Print If you choose this setting, the toner fixing on page 82. Selections are printing only a few pages, you do not need to a thin setting. • Improve...
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...) and our website for using this feature. The Brother Solutions Center is a web site offering information about your printer. 42 Thin • Recycled Paper Support You can change the media type to On, print appears lighter. Note • We do not recommend Toner Save Mode for printing Photo or Gray Scale images...
...) and our website for using this feature. The Brother Solutions Center is a web site offering information about your printer. 42 Thin • Recycled Paper Support You can change the media type to On, print appears lighter. Note • We do not recommend Toner Save Mode for printing Photo or Gray Scale images...
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...curl may be improved. Status Monitor (For Mac OS® X 10.3 or greater users) 3 This reports the printer status (any errors that you change the printer driver setting in media type settings. If this setting. If you do not need to turn the status monitor on paper...choose this selection does not improve the situation enough, select thicker paper in Media Type to a thin setting. 3 • Improve Toner Fixing If you choose this setting, the toner fixing on , run the BrStatusMonitor.app (from the Macintosh HD (Startup Disk), choose Library, Printers, Brother, Utilities). 44
...curl may be improved. Status Monitor (For Mac OS® X 10.3 or greater users) 3 This reports the printer status (any errors that you change the printer driver setting in media type settings. If this setting. If you do not need to turn the status monitor on paper...choose this selection does not improve the situation enough, select thicker paper in Media Type to a thin setting. 3 • Improve Toner Fixing If you choose this setting, the toner fixing on , run the BrStatusMonitor.app (from the Macintosh HD (Startup Disk), choose Library, Printers, Brother, Utilities). 44
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...in one of its life. 2 3 Error LED 3 The Error LED indicates when the printer is in this chapter. or or LED is dimmed. 4 Control Panel 4 LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) 4 This section refers to three LEDs Toner, Drum and Error, and a dual function Ready LED & Go button on the control ...panel. 1 Toner LED The Toner LED indicates when the Toner is low or at the end 4 of its life. 2 Drum LED 1 The Drum LED...
...in one of its life. 2 3 Error LED 3 The Error LED indicates when the printer is in this chapter. or or LED is dimmed. 4 Control Panel 4 LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) 4 This section refers to three LEDs Toner, Drum and Error, and a dual function Ready LED & Go button on the control ...panel. 1 Toner LED The Toner LED indicates when the Toner is low or at the end 4 of its life. 2 Drum LED 1 The Drum LED...
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... and have it ready for a few seconds until the inside of the machine and put it back in the printer memory. The Toner LED will turn on page 62. Receiving data The printer is either receiving data from the computer, processing data in memory or printing the data. 4 Data remaining in... not installed correctly. Cartridge position error The drum unit assembly is blinking for 3 seconds. Take the drum unit out of the printer has cooled down . See Replacing the toner cartridge on for 2 seconds and off for a long time and nothing has printed, press the Go button to print the remaining...
... and have it ready for a few seconds until the inside of the machine and put it back in the printer memory. The Toner LED will turn on page 62. Receiving data The printer is either receiving data from the computer, processing data in memory or printing the data. 4 Data remaining in... not installed correctly. Cartridge position error The drum unit assembly is blinking for 3 seconds. Take the drum unit out of the printer has cooled down . See Replacing the toner cartridge on for 2 seconds and off for a long time and nothing has printed, press the Go button to print the remaining...
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If the error occurs again, call your dealer or Brother Customer Service. Leave the printer for 10 minutes with the power on , press the Go button and make a note of the LED's that a service call is an error that cannot ... . 4 If you see the service call indication shown above, turn off the printer power switch, wait a few seconds, and then turn it on again. LED indications while pressing the Go button LEDs Toner Main PCB failure Fuser unit failure 1 Laser unit failure Main motor failure High voltage failure Drum Error Ready 1 If this...
If the error occurs again, call your dealer or Brother Customer Service. Leave the printer for 10 minutes with the power on , press the Go button and make a note of the LED's that a service call is an error that cannot ... . 4 If you see the service call indication shown above, turn off the printer power switch, wait a few seconds, and then turn it on again. LED indications while pressing the Go button LEDs Toner Main PCB failure Fuser unit failure 1 Laser unit failure Main motor failure High voltage failure Drum Error Ready 1 If this...
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...the Go button as you are off the printer. d Press the Go button again. The printer will print a test page. Using the printer driver 4 If you turn on the power switch. b Make sure that the Toner, Drum and Error LEDs are using the Windows® printer driver, click the Print Test Page button ...in . c Hold down until the 4 Toner, Drum and Error LEDs light up. Release the Go button. Make sure that the front ...
...the Go button as you are off the printer. d Press the Go button again. The printer will print a test page. Using the printer driver 4 If you turn on the power switch. b Make sure that the Toner, Drum and Error LEDs are using the Windows® printer driver, click the Print Test Page button ...in . c Hold down until the 4 Toner, Drum and Error LEDs light up. Release the Go button. Make sure that the front ...
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...(HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) 4 You can print a list of the internal fonts by clicking the Print Fonts button in . d Press the Go button twice. Using the printer driver 4 If you are off the printer. The printer will print a list of the internal fonts using the Brother's Windows® printer driver..., you turn on the power switch. Keep the Go button pressed down the Go button as you can print a list of the internal fonts. c Hold down until the 4 Toner, Drum...
...(HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) 4 You can print a list of the internal fonts by clicking the Print Fonts button in . d Press the Go button twice. Using the printer driver 4 If you are off the printer. The printer will print a list of the internal fonts using the Brother's Windows® printer driver..., you turn on the power switch. Keep the Go button pressed down the Go button as you can print a list of the internal fonts. c Hold down until the 4 Toner, Drum...
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Control Panel Network default settings (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) 4 If you turn on the power switch. Keep the Go button pressed down the Go button as the password and IP address information), ... (resetting all the LEDs light up . Make sure that the front cover is closed and the power cord is plugged in. 4 c Hold down until the Toner, Drum and Error LEDs light up to indicate the print server has been reset to its default settings. 59 Release the Go button. b Make sure...
Control Panel Network default settings (HL-2150N / HL-2170W only) 4 If you turn on the power switch. Keep the Go button pressed down the Go button as the password and IP address information), ... (resetting all the LEDs light up . Make sure that the front cover is closed and the power cord is plugged in. 4 c Hold down until the Toner, Drum and Error LEDs light up to indicate the print server has been reset to its default settings. 59 Release the Go button. b Make sure...
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... you have just used the printer, some internal parts of the printer will be extremely hot. Consumables 5 Toner cartridge Drum unit See Toner cartridge on page 68. Order No. Replacing the consumable items 5 You will need to replace the consumable items when the machine indicates that the life of the printer, remember the following: • If...
... you have just used the printer, some internal parts of the printer will be extremely hot. Consumables 5 Toner cartridge Drum unit See Toner cartridge on page 68. Order No. Replacing the consumable items 5 You will need to replace the consumable items when the machine indicates that the life of the printer, remember the following: • If...
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...-sided pages. Routine Maintenance Toner cartridge 5 The life of the original toner cartridge that came with the printer may be either a starter 1, standard 2 or high yield 3 toner cartridge, and depends on the model and country you bought the printer in. 1 The starter toner cartridge will change the print... density setting for 3 seconds and repeats this message, the printer has nearly run out of toner and will blink continuously if the toner cartridge is printed on the page and the...
...-sided pages. Routine Maintenance Toner cartridge 5 The life of the original toner cartridge that came with the printer may be either a starter 1, standard 2 or high yield 3 toner cartridge, and depends on the model and country you bought the printer in. 1 The starter toner cartridge will change the print... density setting for 3 seconds and repeats this message, the printer has nearly run out of toner and will blink continuously if the toner cartridge is printed on the page and the...
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... out the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly. 62 Toner Life End message The printer will stop printing until you use only genuine Brother toner cartridges. a Make sure that you clean the printer when you replace the toner cartridge. See Cleaning on . When you want to buy toner cartridges, call your dealer or Brother Customer Service. • We recommend...
... out the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly. 62 Toner Life End message The printer will stop printing until you use only genuine Brother toner cartridges. a Make sure that you clean the printer when you replace the toner cartridge. See Cleaning on . When you want to buy toner cartridges, call your dealer or Brother Customer Service. • We recommend...
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To prevent damage to the printer from static electricity, DO NOT touch the electrodes shown in the illustration. 5 c Push down the green lock lever and take the toner cartridge out of disposable paper or cloth in case you accidentally spill or scatter toner. Routine Maintenance CAUTION We recommend that you put the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly on a piece of the drum unit. 63
To prevent damage to the printer from static electricity, DO NOT touch the electrodes shown in the illustration. 5 c Push down the green lock lever and take the toner cartridge out of disposable paper or cloth in case you accidentally spill or scatter toner. Routine Maintenance CAUTION We recommend that you put the drum unit and toner cartridge assembly on a piece of the drum unit. 63