User manual BROTHER DCP-1200

[. . . ] , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , DCP 1200 , , , , , , , , , OWNER'S MANUAL ® If You Need to Call Customer Service Please complete the following information for future reference: Model Number: Serial Number:* Date of Purchase: Place of Purchase: DCP 1200 ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ * The serial number is on the back of the unit. Retain this manual with your sales receipt as a permanent record of your purchase, in the event of a theft, fire or warranty service. Compilation and Publication Notice Under the supervision of Brother Industries Ltd. , this manual has been compiled and published, covering the latest product descriptions and specifications. The contents of this manual and the specifications of this product are subject to change without notice. Brother reserves the right to make changes without notice in the specifications and materials contained herein and shall not be responsible for any damages (including consequential) caused by reliance on the materials presented, including but not limited to typographical and other errors relating to the publication. © 1996­1999 Brother Industries, Ltd. Brother Numbers Brother fax-back system Brother Customer Service has installed an easy-to-use fax-back system, so you can get instant answers to common technical questions and product information for all Brother products. [. . . ] To prevent the possibility of transparencies smudging as they stack in the output bin, remove each transparency after it exits. Manual Feed Slot Your machine has a manual feed slot above the paper cassette. You can load envelopes and special print media one at a time into this slot. You do not have to remove paper from the paper cassette. (For information about acceptable paper, see page 2-5. ) Use the manual feed slot to print or copy on envelopes, labels, transparencies, card stock or thicker paper. 5-4 PRINTING Loading One Sheet of Paper at a Time You do not have to choose Manual Feed in the Setup dialog box of your printer driver. Insert the sheet of paper for Portrait (vertical) or Landscape (horizontal), with the side you wish to print on face up in the manual feed slot. 1 Align the paper at the center of the manual feed slot and insert it all the way. 2 Adjust the paper guides to the width of the paper. Manual Feed Slot Loading More than One Sheet of Paper at a Time 1 Open the Setup dialog box of the Windows ® printer driver and select Manual Feed in the Paper Source section. Follow Steps 1 and 2 above to load the first page. The machine starts printing automatically. 2 After the first page is printed, the MANUAL FEEDING 100% display shows: Insert the next sheet of paper to resume printing. 3 Repeat Steps 1 and 2 until you have finished printing. s To stop and clear the manual feeding, press Job Cancel twice. If you do not select Manual Feed in your printer driver, and insert a page in the manual feed slot, the machine will load the first page from the manual feed slot and subsequent pages from the paper cassette. PRINTING 5-5 Printing on Thicker Paper and Card Stock When the rear cover is lifted up, the machine has a straight paper path from the manual feed slot to the rear of the printer. Use this paper feed and output method when you want to print on envelopes, thicker paper or card stock. 1 Select manual feed mode in the printer driver. 2 Send the print data as usual. 3 Lift up the rear cover at the rear of the machine. 4 Adjust the manual feed paper guides to the width of the paper you're using. 5 Insert a single sheet of paper into the manual feed slot until the front edge touches the paper feed rollers. Let go of the paper as the machine pulls it into position. 6 After the machine ejects the printed page, return to Step 5 to insert the next sheet of paper. The machine will wait until you insert the next sheet of paper. Repeat Steps 5 and 6 for each page to be printed. 7 When you have finished printing, close the rear cover of the machine. To prevent the possibility of transparencies smudging as they stack in the output bin, remove each transparency after it exits. 5-6 PRINTING Simultaneous Printing While Copying or Scanning Your copier/printer can print data from your computer while copying an original, or while scanning information into the computer. However, when the machine is printing a copy, it pauses a PC printing operation, and resumes when copying is finished. Scanning continues during PC printing without a pause. Using the Brother Printer Driver with Your Apple ® New Power Macintosh ® G3 or iMacTM Printing Documents Choose the Chooser from the Apple menu to set up the Brother printer driver HL-1200/MFL Pro as your default printer driver. Then you can use it as follows: 1 Choose Print from the File menu. The Brother HL-1200/MFL Pro series print dialog box appears: 2 In the Copies box, type the number of copies you want. 3 In the Pages options, click All to print the entire document, or click in the From and To boxes and type a range of pages. 4 Choose one of the following Quality options: · · · Select Best for 600 dpi to print better quality at a slower speed. Select Normal for 300 dpi to print a standard quality. Select Faster for 150 dpi to print a lower quality at the fastest speed. PRINTING 5-7 5 Choose one of the following Paper Source options: 1. Select Dual to switch automatically to the other cassette when the paper runs out. Select Upper Paper Cassette to use only the paper in Cassette #1. Select Lower Paper Cassette to use only the paper in Cassette #2. 4. Select Manual to feed the paper one sheet at a time in the Manual Feed Slot. 6 For the best print quality, select the type of media you will be using: · · · · · Select Regular if you are using ordinary plain paper. Select Thin Paper if the paper wrinkles when you are using thin paper. Select Thick Paper or Thicker Paper if you are using bond paper, envelopes, rough paper or thicker paper. [. . . ] For other characters, see character set of Roman 8. 12 - 4 SPECIFICATIONS Interface Parallel Interface Interface Connector Printer Side: Amphenol FCN-685J036-L/X or equivalent A shielded cable should be used. Pin Assignment Pin No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Signal DATA STROBE DATA 1 DATA 2 DATA 3 DATA 4 DATA 5 DATA 6 DATA 7 DATA 8 ACKNLG BUSY PE SLCT AUTO FEED N. C. 0V (S. G. ) 0V (S. G. ) +5V Direction Input Input Input Input Input Input Input Input Input Output Output Output Output Input Pin No. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Signal 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) 0V(S. G. ) INPUT PRIME FAULT N. C. [. . . ]