Print Settings

You can change settings by choosing a setting in the Print Settings list:

Basic tab

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Media Type

You can change the media type to one of the following:

•	Plain Paper
•	Thin Paper
•	Thick Paper
•	Thicker Paper
•	Bond Paper
•	Recycled Paper
•	Envelopes
•	Env. Thick
•	Env. Thin
•	Label

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Print Quality

You can choose the following print quality settings.

•	Normal (600 × 600 dpi) 600 dpi class. Recommended for ordinary printing. Good print quality with good print speeds.
•	Fine (2400 dpi class) 2400 dpi class. The finest print mode. Use this mode to print precise images such as photographs. Since the print data is much larger than in normal mode, processing time, data transfer time and printing time will be longer.

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Color/Mono

You can change the Color/Mono settings as follows:

•	Auto The printer checks the content of your documents for color. If color is detected, it prints in color. If no color content is detected, it prints in monochrome. The total printing speed may become slower.
•	Color When your document contains color and you want to print it in color, select this mode.
•	Mono Select this mode if your document has only black and grayscale text and/or objects. Mono mode makes the print processing speed faster than color mode. If your document contains color, selecting Mono mode prints your document in 256 levels of gray.

Note

If the Cyan, Magenta or Yellow toner reaches the end of its life, choosing Mono will allow you to keep printing as long as the Black toner does not reach the end of its life.

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Toner Save Mode

You can conserve toner use with this feature. When you set Toner Save Mode to On, print appears lighter. The default setting is Off.

Note

We do not recommend Toner Save for printing Photo or Gray Scale images.

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Reverse Print (Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 only)

Check Reverse Print to reverse the data from up to down.

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Support

You can visit the Brother Solutions Center (http://solutions.brother.com) and our web site for original/genuine Brother supplies by clicking the Support button. The Brother Solutions Center is a web site offering information about your Brother product including FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), User’s Guides, driver updates and tips for using your printer.

Advanced tab

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Color Mode

You can change the color mode as follows:

•	Normal This is the Default color mode.
•	Vivid The color of all elements are adjusted to become a more vivid color.
•	None If you want to apply the color management settings of your application, choose this setting. The printer driver will not adjust the color.

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Enhance Black Printing

If a black graphic cannot be printed correctly, choose this setting.

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Improve Gray Color

You can improve the image quality of shaded areas by ticking the Improve Gray Color check box.

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Improve Print Output

This feature allows you to improve a print quality problem.

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Reduce Paper Curl

If you choose this setting, the paper curl may be reduced.

If you are printing only a few pages, you do not need to choose this setting. We recommend that you change the printer driver setting in Media Type to a thin setting.

Note

This operation will decrease the temperature of the machine's fusing process.

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Improve Toner Fixing

If you choose this setting, the toner fixing on paper may be improved. If this selection does not provide enough improvement, select Thicker Paper in Media Type settings.

Note

This operation will increase the temperature of the machine's fusing process.

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Settings

If you want to change the color settings such as brightness, contrast, intensity or saturation, click the Settings button to access more advanced settings.

•	Brightness (1) Moving the scroll bar to the right makes your image lighter and moving the scroll bar left makes your image darker.
•	Contrast (2) Darker sections are darker while lighter sections will be lighter as you increase the contrast.
•	Red (3) Increase the intensity of Red in the image.
•	Green (4) Increase the intensity of Green in the image.
•	Blue (5) Increase the intensity of Blue in the image.
•	Saturation (6) Increase the saturation when you wish to print a more vivid image or decrease the saturation you want to print a less vivid image.

Duplex Printing

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Manual duplex

Select Paper Handling.

•	(Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.4.x) Choose Even numbered pages and print, and then choose Odd numbered pages and print.
•	(Mac OS X 10.5.x) Choose Even Only and print, and then choose Odd Only and print.

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