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You can print or view this manual thoroughly before using the printer. Brother Laser Printer HL-1030/1240/1250 User's Guide Please read this manual from the CD-ROM at any time, please keep the CD-ROM in a convenient place for quick and easy reference at all times.
You can print or view this manual thoroughly before using the printer. Brother Laser Printer HL-1030/1240/1250 User's Guide Please read this manual from the CD-ROM at any time, please keep the CD-ROM in a convenient place for quick and easy reference at all times.
Users Manual - English
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... technical and operational assistance (For USA & CANADA Only) CHAPTER1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER What is included in the carton 1-1 Components 1-1 About your printer 1-2 Features of your printer 1-3 What printer options are available 1-7 Place the printer 1-8 Power Supply 1-8 Environment 1-8 System Requirements for the Brother Printing Solution for Windows 1-9 What kind of paper can I use 1-10 How to load...
... technical and operational assistance (For USA & CANADA Only) CHAPTER1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER What is included in the carton 1-1 Components 1-1 About your printer 1-2 Features of your printer 1-3 What printer options are available 1-7 Place the printer 1-8 Power Supply 1-8 Environment 1-8 System Requirements for the Brother Printing Solution for Windows 1-9 What kind of paper can I use 1-10 How to load...
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...INTERFACE (RS-100M) Connection (For HL-1250 Only 2-3 How to select the RS-422A (Apple) or RS-232C (IBM) Serial Interface (For HL-1250 Only 2-4 How to set the Serial Interface Parameters 2-5 How to connect the Serial Interface Cable 2-8 What is the Brother print server (NC-2010p) ........ 2-...10 Features 2-10 How to add extra Memory (For HL-1250 Only) ... 2-11 How to install additional SIMM memory 2-12 CHAPTER 3 MAINTENANCE How to replace the Toner Cartridge 3-3 How to replace the Drum Unit 3-9 How to clean the printer 3-14 Cleaning the printer ...
...INTERFACE (RS-100M) Connection (For HL-1250 Only 2-3 How to select the RS-422A (Apple) or RS-232C (IBM) Serial Interface (For HL-1250 Only 2-4 How to set the Serial Interface Parameters 2-5 How to connect the Serial Interface Cable 2-8 What is the Brother print server (NC-2010p) ........ 2-...10 Features 2-10 How to add extra Memory (For HL-1250 Only) ... 2-11 How to install additional SIMM memory 2-12 CHAPTER 3 MAINTENANCE How to replace the Toner Cartridge 3-3 How to replace the Drum Unit 3-9 How to clean the printer 3-14 Cleaning the printer ...
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APPENDIX Printer Technical Specifications A-1 Printing A-1 Functions A-3 Electrical and Mechanical A-4 Parallel Interface Specifications A-5 USB (Universal Serial Bus) Interface (HL-1240/1250 Only A-7 Resident Font (HL-1240/1250 Only A-8 HL-1240 A-8 Bitmapped Fonts A-8 HL-1250 A-8 Bitmapped Fonts A-8 Scalable Fonts A-9 Symbol Sets / Character Sets (HL-1240/1250 Only A-10 OCR Symbol Sets (HL-1250 Only A-10 HP LaserJet IIP Mode (HL-1240 A-10 HP LaserJet 6P Mode (HL-1250 A-10 EPSON Mode (HL-1250 Only A-11 IBM Mode (HL-1250 Only A-11 REGULATIONS A-17
APPENDIX Printer Technical Specifications A-1 Printing A-1 Functions A-3 Electrical and Mechanical A-4 Parallel Interface Specifications A-5 USB (Universal Serial Bus) Interface (HL-1240/1250 Only A-7 Resident Font (HL-1240/1250 Only A-8 HL-1240 A-8 Bitmapped Fonts A-8 HL-1250 A-8 Bitmapped Fonts A-8 Scalable Fonts A-9 Symbol Sets / Character Sets (HL-1240/1250 Only A-10 OCR Symbol Sets (HL-1250 Only A-10 HP LaserJet IIP Mode (HL-1240 A-10 HP LaserJet 6P Mode (HL-1250 A-10 EPSON Mode (HL-1250 Only A-11 IBM Mode (HL-1250 Only A-11 REGULATIONS A-17
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... cover or rear cover of Warnings, Cautions, and Notes The following illustration. Before cleaning the printer, make sure you have turned off the Power Switch and Unplug the Printer High Temperature Front view High Temperature Rear view • Τhere are extremely hot. Turning...power cord from the power outlet. To Use the Printer Safely Warning • After you have just used in the following conventions are used the printer, some internal parts of the printer are high voltage electrodes inside the printer. Caution Indicates cautions that must be observed to ...
... cover or rear cover of Warnings, Cautions, and Notes The following illustration. Before cleaning the printer, make sure you have turned off the Power Switch and Unplug the Printer High Temperature Front view High Temperature Rear view • Τhere are extremely hot. Turning...power cord from the power outlet. To Use the Printer Safely Warning • After you have just used in the following conventions are used the printer, some internal parts of the printer are high voltage electrodes inside the printer. Caution Indicates cautions that must be observed to ...
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... avoid any damage during shipping will cause severe damage to remove the unit and place it in the plastic bag during transit. Failure to the Printer and will VOID THE WARRANTY. 1 Remove the drum unit assembly. 2 Place it in the plastic bag. It is recommended that you must be adequately ...insured with the carrier. ! The Printer should also be removed from the Printer and placed in the plastic bag and seal the bag completely. 3 Remove the AC cord from the...
... avoid any damage during shipping will cause severe damage to remove the unit and place it in the plastic bag during transit. Failure to the Printer and will VOID THE WARRANTY. 1 Remove the drum unit assembly. 2 Place it in the plastic bag. It is recommended that you must be adequately ...insured with the carrier. ! The Printer should also be removed from the Printer and placed in the plastic bag and seal the bag completely. 3 Remove the AC cord from the...
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... easy to use Fax-Back System so you have comments or suggestions, please write us at: In USA Printer Customer Support Brother International Corporation 15 Musick Irvine, CA 92618 In CANADA Brother International Corporation (Canada), Ltd. - DEALERS/SERVICE CENTERS (USA only) For the name of FaxBack subjects. This... index of an authorized dealer or service center, call 1-800-853-6660 INTERNET ADDRESS For technical questions and downloading drivers: http://www.brother.com Our BBS supports modem speeds up to 14,400, 8 bits no parity, 1 stop bit. SERVICE CENTERS (Canada only) ...
... easy to use Fax-Back System so you have comments or suggestions, please write us at: In USA Printer Customer Support Brother International Corporation 15 Musick Irvine, CA 92618 In CANADA Brother International Corporation (Canada), Ltd. - DEALERS/SERVICE CENTERS (USA only) For the name of FaxBack subjects. This... index of an authorized dealer or service center, call 1-800-853-6660 INTERNET ADDRESS For technical questions and downloading drivers: http://www.brother.com Our BBS supports modem speeds up to 14,400, 8 bits no parity, 1 stop bit. SERVICE CENTERS (Canada only) ...
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CHAPTER1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER What is included in the carton Components When you unpack the printer, check to see that you have all of the following parts: Drum unit assembly (with toner cartridge included) AC power cord Printer CD-ROM Documents Floppy disk Fig. 1-1 Components in the Printer Carton Components may differ from one country to another. 1-1
CHAPTER1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER What is included in the carton Components When you unpack the printer, check to see that you have all of the following parts: Drum unit assembly (with toner cartridge included) AC power cord Printer CD-ROM Documents Floppy disk Fig. 1-1 Components in the Printer Carton Components may differ from one country to another. 1-1
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About your printer Tray extension flap Manual feed slot Control panel Paper cassette Rear cover Face down output tray Front cover Manual feed paper guides Fig. 1-2 Front View Rear cover Modular jack for lower tray unit Power switch AC power inlet Parallel Interface connector USB (Universal Serial Bus Interface) connector (HL-12401250 Only) Fig. 1-3 HL-1030/1240 Rear View 1-2 Power switch AC power inlet Parallel interface connector Fig. 1-4 HL-1250 Rear View
About your printer Tray extension flap Manual feed slot Control panel Paper cassette Rear cover Face down output tray Front cover Manual feed paper guides Fig. 1-2 Front View Rear cover Modular jack for lower tray unit Power switch AC power inlet Parallel Interface connector USB (Universal Serial Bus Interface) connector (HL-12401250 Only) Fig. 1-3 HL-1030/1240 Rear View 1-2 Power switch AC power inlet Parallel interface connector Fig. 1-4 HL-1250 Rear View
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... per minute (ppm) print speed (A4 or Letter paper). The manual feed slot allows manual paper loading sheet by sheet so you to choose various printer settings including toner save mode, custom paper size, sleep mode, gray scale adjustment, resolution and many layout functions. You can be done from the paper... : True 600 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) (GDI mode), True 300 x 300 dots per minute (ppm) print speed (A4 or Letter paper). HL-1250 : True 600 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) and 1200 x 600 dpi for Microsoft® Windows® 95/98, Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 4.0 are available on ...
... per minute (ppm) print speed (A4 or Letter paper). The manual feed slot allows manual paper loading sheet by sheet so you to choose various printer settings including toner save mode, custom paper size, sleep mode, gray scale adjustment, resolution and many layout functions. You can be done from the paper... : True 600 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) (GDI mode), True 300 x 300 dots per minute (ppm) print speed (A4 or Letter paper). HL-1250 : True 600 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) and 1200 x 600 dpi for Microsoft® Windows® 95/98, Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 4.0 are available on ...
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... You can easily make changes to settings which is a Terminate-andStay Resident (TSR) program. t Popular Printer Emulation Support (For HL-1240/1250 Only) These printers support the following popular printer emulation modes. When printing, the animated dialog box appears on your screen. This program also provides a ... show the current status of paper, the dialog box will appear to correct. The HL-1250 supports HP LaserJet 6P (PCL6), Epson FX-850 and IBM Proprinter XL. t Printer Status Monitor with your computer screen. When you use DOS application software or Windows version...
... You can easily make changes to settings which is a Terminate-andStay Resident (TSR) program. t Popular Printer Emulation Support (For HL-1240/1250 Only) These printers support the following popular printer emulation modes. When printing, the animated dialog box appears on your screen. This program also provides a ... show the current status of paper, the dialog box will appear to correct. The HL-1250 supports HP LaserJet 6P (PCL6), Epson FX-850 and IBM Proprinter XL. t Printer Status Monitor with your computer screen. When you use DOS application software or Windows version...
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...Photoscale Technology (For HL-1250 Only) High resolution control (HRC) technology provides clear and crisp printouts. Use this function when you to use the USB port are provided on the CD-ROM supplied with the printer's standard memory. 1-5 Advanced Photoscale Technology (APT) enables the printer to a PC ...600 dpi graphic and text data, including larger fonts, with the printer. CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER t USB Interface (For Windows 98, iMac and Power Macintosh G3 with USB users Only) (For HL-1240/1250 Only) This printer can be connected using the USB (Universal Serial Bus) Interface ...
...Photoscale Technology (For HL-1250 Only) High resolution control (HRC) technology provides clear and crisp printouts. Use this function when you to use the USB port are provided on the CD-ROM supplied with the printer's standard memory. 1-5 Advanced Photoscale Technology (APT) enables the printer to a PC ...600 dpi graphic and text data, including larger fonts, with the printer. CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER t USB Interface (For Windows 98, iMac and Power Macintosh G3 with USB users Only) (For HL-1240/1250 Only) This printer can be connected using the USB (Universal Serial Bus) Interface ...
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.../1240 consumes less than 5 Watts, the HL-1250 consumes less than 6 Watts when in this printer.) The actual number of pages printed with a toner cartridge may vary depending on 5% coverage per page. You can select from the drum unit, you need ... print the following 11 types of bar codes: • Code 39 • Interleaved 2 of time, sleep mode automatically reduces power consumption. t Bar Code Print (HL-1250 Only) This printer can print up to obtain draft copies for a certain period of 5 • EAN-8 • EAN-13 • UPC-A • EAN-128 • UPC-E •...
.../1240 consumes less than 5 Watts, the HL-1250 consumes less than 6 Watts when in this printer.) The actual number of pages printed with a toner cartridge may vary depending on 5% coverage per page. You can select from the drum unit, you need ... print the following 11 types of bar codes: • Code 39 • Interleaved 2 of time, sleep mode automatically reduces power consumption. t Bar Code Print (HL-1250 Only) This printer can print up to obtain draft copies for a certain period of 5 • EAN-8 • EAN-13 • UPC-A • EAN-128 • UPC-E •...
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CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER What printer options are available t External Print Server (Brother NC-2010p) An optional Network print server Brother NC-2010p is the Brother print server (NC-2010p)" in Chapter 2 Lower Tray Unit (LT-400) (HL-1250 Only) A lower tray unit expands the paper source capacity.... You can be connected to your Network via the parallel interface. t SIMM (Memory) (HL-1250 Only) The printer has ...
CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER What printer options are available t External Print Server (Brother NC-2010p) An optional Network print server Brother NC-2010p is the Brother print server (NC-2010p)" in Chapter 2 Lower Tray Unit (LT-400) (HL-1250 Only) A lower tray unit expands the paper source capacity.... You can be connected to your Network via the parallel interface. t SIMM (Memory) (HL-1250 Only) The printer has ...
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... your country Frequency: 50 Hz (220 V- 240 V) or 50/60 Hz (110-120 V) Check the rating plate on the back of the printer for your model's specification. • The power cord, including extensions, should not exceed 5 meters (16.5 feet). • Do not share the same power circuit with ...these appliances, it is easily accessible. • Use the printer only within the specified power range. AC power: ±10% of the rated power voltage in a dusty place. • Do not place the...
... your country Frequency: 50 Hz (220 V- 240 V) or 50/60 Hz (110-120 V) Check the rating plate on the back of the printer for your model's specification. • The power cord, including extensions, should not exceed 5 meters (16.5 feet). • Do not share the same power circuit with ...these appliances, it is easily accessible. • Use the printer only within the specified power range. AC power: ±10% of the rated power voltage in a dusty place. • Do not place the...
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CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER System Requirements for the Brother Printing Solution for Windows Check the following system requirements to setup and operate the printer in Brother Printing Solution for Windows: • IBM PC or compatible with 80486 SX or higher microprocessor • 10 MB of space available on your hard disk for the printer driver and all fonts • Microsoft Windows 3.1/3.11, Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 1-9
CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER System Requirements for the Brother Printing Solution for Windows Check the following system requirements to setup and operate the printer in Brother Printing Solution for Windows: • IBM PC or compatible with 80486 SX or higher microprocessor • 10 MB of space available on your hard disk for the printer driver and all fonts • Microsoft Windows 3.1/3.11, Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 1-9
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... We recommend you use labels or transparencies which are designed for use in laser printers. • The printing speed may change, depending on the paper size and the media type in use, in Europe) or equivalent Avery laser label or equivalent 3M CG3300 or equivalent 1-11 Paper Capacity Upper Paper Cassette... into the output tray A4/Letter paper: Approx. 150 sheets of 80 g/m2 (21 lb.) Face up printing out of the rear of the printer Thicker paper: Single sheet of thicker paper Recommended Paper Cut sheet: Label: Transparencies: Xerox 4200 (in USA) / Xerox 80 Premier Paper (in ...
... We recommend you use labels or transparencies which are designed for use in laser printers. • The printing speed may change, depending on the paper size and the media type in use, in Europe) or equivalent Avery laser label or equivalent 3M CG3300 or equivalent 1-11 Paper Capacity Upper Paper Cassette... into the output tray A4/Letter paper: Approx. 150 sheets of 80 g/m2 (21 lb.) Face up printing out of the rear of the printer Thicker paper: Single sheet of thicker paper Recommended Paper Cut sheet: Label: Transparencies: Xerox 4200 (in USA) / Xerox 80 Premier Paper (in ...
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... paper cassette, use acid paper to avoid any damage to the printer drum unit. The print quality might be the cause of paper jams...of the drum unit might be damaged. For more information on this printer before purchasing large quantities. If you are designed for use long-grained ... the place you purchased your printer will be shortened with the carrier sheet exposed, or your printer. Using the printer for special print jobs for...printing name cards, etc.) Cut Sheet We recommend you use in the printer driver for optimum printing. Use neutral paper. Avoid using coated paper,...
... paper cassette, use acid paper to avoid any damage to the printer drum unit. The print quality might be the cause of paper jams...of the drum unit might be damaged. For more information on this printer before purchasing large quantities. If you are designed for use long-grained ... the place you purchased your printer will be shortened with the carrier sheet exposed, or your printer. Using the printer for special print jobs for...printing name cards, etc.) Cut Sheet We recommend you use in the printer driver for optimum printing. Use neutral paper. Avoid using coated paper,...
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... misfeeds. Before using paper with holes, such as possible. Do not use organizer sheets that it is , you must fan the stack well to the printer. If it is not curled. Fig. 1-5 Fan the Paper and Straighten the Paper Different types of paper should straighten the paper as much as organizer... the paper cassette, it may cause paper jams or misfeeds. 1-13 Feeding curled paper can cause paper jams and misfeeds. Special Paper CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER Before using any paper, make sure that are stuck together.
... misfeeds. Before using paper with holes, such as possible. Do not use organizer sheets that it is , you must fan the stack well to the printer. If it is not curled. Fig. 1-5 Fan the Paper and Straighten the Paper Different types of paper should straighten the paper as much as organizer... the paper cassette, it may cause paper jams or misfeeds. 1-13 Feeding curled paper can cause paper jams and misfeeds. Special Paper CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS PRINTER Before using any paper, make sure that are stuck together.
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... clasps • Envelopes with self-adhesive closures • Envelopes of baggy construction • Envelopes not sharply creased • Embossed envelopes • Envelopes already printed by a laser printer • Envelopes pre-printed on the inside • Envelopes that cannot be arranged uniformly when placed in a pile Fig. 1-6 Envelopes Printable Area The figure below...
... clasps • Envelopes with self-adhesive closures • Envelopes of baggy construction • Envelopes not sharply creased • Embossed envelopes • Envelopes already printed by a laser printer • Envelopes pre-printed on the inside • Envelopes that cannot be arranged uniformly when placed in a pile Fig. 1-6 Envelopes Printable Area The figure below...