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Brother HL-6V Printer Driver Help Contents

Help Topics

Cartridge

Compatible Fonts and Typefaces

Copies

Printer Memory

Fonts Button

Options Button

Orientation

Page Protection

Paper Size

Paper Source

Defaults Button

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Cartridges
Cartridge

Support is already included for many of the Brother font cartridges and Hewlett-Packard's bitmapped & scalable font cartridges with the Brother HL-6V Printer Driver.   Be sure to select a cartridge before you format your documents.  The cartridge you select includes a list of fonts and point sizes that you will be able to use in your Windows applications.

You will not need to use the Fonts button or the Brother Font Installer if your cartridge is listed.

Unlisted Cartridges

If you have a font cartridge that is unlisted, you must install AutoFont Support files

(TFM) or a Printer Cartridge Metric (PCM) file which supports the fonts through the

Brother Font Installer.

If you purchased a font cartridge from a company other than Brother or HP, call that company to see if a Windows 3.1 PCM file or AutoFont Support file is available.

For specific instructions on the procedures to install new (unlisted) cartridges, click  here:

Font Installer


Compatible Fonts and Typefaces

Fonts installed through the Brother Font Installer must be in one of the following forms:

*   Bitmapped-printer (soft) fonts -- disk-based

Disk-based (soft) bitmapped or scalable printer fonts must be in PCL format.  These fonts have various file extensions.  For example, soft fonts from HP's Type Director  use .SFP and .SFL.  HP's older soft font products such as the AC, AE, AG, DA, DC products have file extensions like .USP, .USL, .R8P, .R8L, etc.

*   Fonts installed through the AutoFont Support Utility

AutoFont Support uses a file called GLUE.TXT

*   Cartridge/card fonts -- Printer Cartridge Metric (PCM) files

Additionally, if you have Intellifont-for-Windows, you can also use the Brother Font Installer to install

*   Scalable typeface products -- disk-based or cartridge based

Scalable typeface products must be in AGFA Compugraphic's FAIS format.  All other font products require AutoFont Support files or PCM files.


Copies

The Copies selection tells Windows how many uncollated copies you want to print from a software application. This setting is independent of the "copies selection" that may be available within the print menus of your software application.

Do not use the two selections simultaneously.

As a general rule:  Set the number of copies in the Brother HL-6V Printer Driver window when you want to print uncollated copies.  When you want sets of collated copies, select the number of copies from within your software application.

You should experiment to determine which selection works best for the  jobs you print.


Defining Printer Memory
Printer Memory

The Memory selection, which defines the amount of memory installed in a printer, should be configured to match your printer.  Windows uses this information to determine the amount of memory you have available for printing.

This value will be automatically set for you and this control will be disabled if the Brother HL-6V printer driver can talk directly to your printer through the parallel port.  If the bi-directional mode is disabled either in the printer driver or on the printer, or when your computer is not directly connected to the HL-6V printer with a parallel interface cable, this value has to be set manually.  To know the amount of memory installed in a printer, check the message that appears on the printer's LCD after turning the power switch of the printer off and on.

The Brother HL-6 printer comes with 1 megabyte of memory as standard.

This can be expanded to 3 or 5 megabytes. This value will be automatically set for you and this control disabled if the Brother HL-6V printer driver can talk directly to your printer.

Additional printer memory can eliminate memory overflows (34 Memory Full) if you print complex forms, full-page graphics and/or download many fonts.


Fonts Button

By clicking on the Fonts button you can access the Brother Font Installer where you can install new printer fonts.  Step-by-step procedures for installing fonts can be found in the Brother Font Installer help screens.

You can install any PCL compatible printer fonts with the Brother Font Installer.

Compatible Fonts and Typefaces


Options
Options button

The Options dialogue box allows you to select or change the following:

Advanced Driver Options (Advanced Button)

Compression Mode

Defaults Button

Graphics Quality

Gray Scale

HRC - High Resolution Control

Insert Command

TrueType Mode

For more information about any of these options, select the Help button from the Options menu.


Orientation

Print orientation can be Portrait or Landscape. Portrait orientation means the page is taller than it is wide when you view the printed text upright. Landscape orientation means the page is wider than it is tall when you view the printed text upright.


Page Protection

"Page Protection" refers to a setting that reserves additional memory for the creation of page images.

The default is off.  Other selections are LTR (letter-size paper), A4, or LGL (legal-size paper).

The page protection feature allows the printer to create an entire page image in memory before physically moving the paper through the printer. This process ensures that the entire page will be printed and eliminates the "31 PRINT OVERRUN" error that can sometimes appear on the display of your printer.

At Page Protection is only available if the memory in the printer has been expanded to more than 3 MBytes.

NOTE: This setting does not change any setting within your printer. In order to set Page protection you must configure your printer using the printer's control panel. refer to your printer user's manual for more information.

Printer Memory


Paper Source

For a Brother HL-6V printer, you can choose

*  Multipurpose Tray

*  Lower Tray

*  Manual Feed

*  Auto Select

Note:

Lower Tray is an optional second tray.

Auto Select selects the source which matches the paper size selected


Paper Size

The Brother HL-6V Printer Driver lets you select five sizes of paper and four sizes of envelopes.

Paper

  A4 (international)	210 x 297 mm

  Letter (US)	8.5 x 11 inches

  Legal (US)	8.5 x 14 inches

  Executive (US)	7.25 x 10.5 inches

  B5	176 x 250 mm

Envelopes

  C5 (International envelope)	162 x 229 mm

  DL (International envelope)	110 x 220 mm

  COM-10 (US envelope)	4 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches

  Monarch (US envelope)	3 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches


Printer Defaults
Defaults Button

Selecting this button sets the driver to the default settings. This will reset the paper source, size, copies and orientation.


Self Test
To run a TEST PRINT or PRINT CONFIG on your Brother HL-6V printer.

a) With the printer switch on, press the [SEL] switch to put the printer off line. The ONLINE indicator will go out.

b) Hold down the [SHIFT] switch and printer the [TEST] switch. The display will show that you are in test print mode.

c) Press the  (UP) or  (DOWN) switch repeatedly until one of the following is displayed on screen:

TEST PRINT	(a "barber pole" test pattern)

PRINT CONFIG	(printer setting condition)

PRINT FONTS I	(all ROM fonts in memory)

PRINT FONTS C	(all font on cartridge)

PRINT FONTS P	(all permanent downloaded fonts)

If you have no font cartridge inserted, and/or no fonts have been downloaded, the appropriate message(s) will not be displayed.

d) When the message corresponding to what you want is displayed, press the [SET] switch. The DATA indicator will come on, and the test sheet(s) will be produced.

e) If you decide that you do not want print a test print or so forth, choose the exit option with the  (UP) or  (DOWN) switches, and then press [SET] to exit from the TEST PRINT mode.

f) Press [SEL] switch to set the printer back on line. The ONLINE indicator will light.


AutoFont Support  files contain font metric information used by the Brother Font Installer.


WYSIWYG is an acronym for "What You See Is What Your Get." The screen fonts that appear on your display match the fonts used in your printer.


Bitmapped fonts are limited to an exact point size.  A bitmapped font can not be reduced or enlarged (non-scalable).


A driver is a portion of software code that controls commands sent to a device such as a printer or screen.  Drivers work automatically so that you don't have to enter programming codes.  Drivers allow you to select fonts, set margins, number of copies, etc.


In multiple page jobs that are uncollated, several copies of page 1 are printed followed by several copies of page 2, followed by several copies of page 3, etc.


In multiple page jobs that are collated, a complete set of pages in a job is printed followed by another complete set of pages.   For example:  One copy of page 1, then page 2, then page 3; followed by another copy of page 1, then page 2, then page 3.


Intellifont-for-Windows is a software program from Hewlett-Packard that includes a special screen font driver.  With Intellifont-for-Windows  loaded, scalable typeface products can be directly installed to produce both printer fonts and screen fonts.


Manual feed is often used for printing non-standard sizes of paper, envelopes, labels or transparencies.  And if an occasional page of special paper such as letter-head or colored paper is wanted without having to open and load a paper tray.


Symbol sets are unique groupings of characters in a font.  Each symbol set is defined with a specific set of applications in mind.  WN: Windows is the default symbol set.  Other symbol sets are used for math and multi-language purposes.  Refer to your printer user's manual for charts showing all the characters in symbol sets.


Binding refers to the process of joining a stack of printed sheets with stitches (staples), three-hole, glue or some other means.


Contents for Options Help

Help Topics

Advanced Button

Compression Mode

Defaults Button

Graphics Resolution

Gray Scale

HRC - High Resolution Control

Insert Command

TrueType Mode

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Advanced Printer Settings
Advanced Button

The Advanced dialogue box allows you to select or change the following:

High Speed

Bi-Directional Interface

For more information about any of these options, select the Help button from the Advanced  menu.


Compression Mode

The compression mode setting selects how the printer driver will send raster data to the printer. There are four settings to choose from:

Compression Off

Brother Compression (Type 1)

Adaptive Compression (Mode 5)

Adaptive Compression (Mode 9)

CCITT Group 4 (Type 2)

Select a compression mode that best suits your data. If your data has large areas of solid black or white CCITT Group 4 (Type 2) mode  or Brother compression (Type 1) will be the most suitable. Adaptive Compression modes may take longer to process but the resulting data sent to the printer will be reduced. This may be useful over networks.

Try other modes to find the most suitable for your data.

NOTE: Changing compression mode does not alter the print output from the printer, just the amount of data being sent.


Defaults
Defaults Button

Selecting this button resets the Options dialogue box back to the default driver settings. These setting are recommended to produce to highest quality output from your Brother HL-6V Printer.


Graphics Resolution

The Graphics Resolution settings in the printer setup dialog box affects the resolution of graphic images only, not text. This is measured in dot per inch (dpi)

Graphics Quality can be set to 300 dpi, 150 dpi or 75 dpi. Choosing 300 dpi will produce finer, higher-quality output.  The output quality decreases with the 150 dpi or 75 dpi settings. However, higher resolution output will take longer to print.

The Brother HL-6V printer requires at least two additional memory in order to print 300 dpi graphics for a full page. The printer have enough resident memory to print 75 dpi or 150 dpi graphics for a full page. However, if the page is not too complicated the Brother HL-6V can print a 300 dpi full graphics page with standard memory.

If the printer does not print the entire graphic image on one page and displays the "34 Memory Full" message, then most likely the printer has run out of memory. You either need to install more memory in your printer or choose a lower graphics resolution setting.

Memory


Gray Scale

Gray Scale refers to a type of pattern that is applied to printed images.  Though the Brother HL-6V printer prints only black, these patterns produce a "gray" appearance on the printed page.

The best way to choose a setting for your graphic image is to experiment.  Print a graphic image at each setting and choose the one you like best.

To help you decide which selection to choose, the three settings are described here:

Photographic Images

Choose this setting for printed images that you want to have smooth, realistic and photographic appearance.  The Photographic Images setting provides soft contrasts between various shades of gray.  This setting also works well for images originally designed with color.  The Brother HL-6V Printer Driver uses an 8 bit-by-8 bit "clustered dot" method to emulate 60 different levels of gray at this setting.

Line Art Images

Choose this setting for graphic images with intricate lines and fine detail, like "clip art" graphics.  The Line Art Images setting provides solid lines and sharp contrasts between shaded areas.  The Brother HL-6V Printer Driver uses 32 different 8 bit-by-8 bit "dispersed dot" patterns to produce gray tones.

Scanned Images

Choose this setting if your graphic images were originally scanned.  The Scanned Images setting is specially tuned to provide exceptional quality and clarity to printed images originally scanned in.  The Brother HL-6V Printer Driver uses a variation of the 8 bit-by-8 bit "clustered dot" method used in the Photographic Images setting.  This method also produces 60 different levels of gray.


HRC - High Resolution Control

This option allows you to change the HRC setting on your Brother HL-6V printer.

This function is a special function that offers improved print quality of characters and graphics that conventional laser printers cannot attain with resolution of 300.

This option can be set to one of the following:-

* Printer Default	- The setting will match that of the printer.

* Light	- Set the HRC to the light level

* Medium	- Set the HRC to the medium level

* Dark	- Set the HRC to the dark level

* Off	- Turn HRC off

You can check the most suitable setting in the current conditions by running the SELF TEST from the printer's control panel.


Insert Commands
Insert Command

This option allows data to be inserted into a print job.

A file called ESCSEQ.DEF resides in the WINDOWS SYSTEM directory. This file can be created using a standard text editor such as NOTEPAD. (This file must be saved in text format).

The file can contain the following key words.

DEFSTART	Start of data definition

DEFEND	End of definition

PAGEn	Insert data at the beginning of page n.(n  can 1, 2, 3, etc. or ALL for all pages)

PAGEALL	Insert data at the beginning of every page

DATAENDn	Insert data at the end of page n.

DATAENDALL	Insert data at the end of every page.

The following is a sample of this file

DEFSTART	; Start of definition

TITLE "Company Logo"	; This string appears in the Insert Command Combo Box

PAGE1 "<ESC>&f1000y2X"	; 'ESC &f1000y2X' is inserted at the beginning of the first page

DEFEND	; End of definition

DEFSTART	; Start of definition

TITLE "Every Page"	; This string appears in the Insert Command Combo Box

PAGEALL "<ESC>&f1000y2X"	; 'ESC&f1000y2X' is inserted at the beginning of every page

DEFEND	; End of definition

NOTE: The data is delimited by '"' and must be entered correctly. The data entered is not validated until it reaches the printer.  If command sequence is too long and you store that command sequence into a file, you can insert that file by delimiting the name of the file by ##.

Please consult your printer user manual for valid commands or contact your Brother dealer.


TrueType Mode

Your printer supports printing TrueType fonts as graphics. If your document contains a lot of graphics but not a lot of text, it is recommended that you use this feature. Printing as graphics requires less printer memory and may speed up printing time.

This option is also useful if you want to print graphics over text such that only the exposed portion of a character is displayed.

To print TrueType fonts as graphics

1	In the printer setup dialogue box, choose the Options button.

2	In the Options dialogue box, select the TrueType Mode and choose Print as graphics.

3	Specify any other options you want.

4	Choose the OK button.


Contents for Advanced Options Help

Contents for Advanced Help

Help Topics

High Speed

Bi-Directional Interface

Show Status Window

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High Speed

Selecting the High Speed check box enables the driver to make use of a high performance Parallel Communications driver. This reduces the time taken to send a print job to the printer.

Selecting High Speed on enables the fastest possible data transmission method.

NOTE that only one application may access the Parallel Communications Driver at one time. Therefore if a second application tries to print, an Error condition is reported. At this point you may Cancel or wait for the other Print Job to complete.


Printer Status Reporting
Bi-Directional Interface

Selecting the Bi-Directional Interface check box allows the status of the printer can be read back from the printer.  When it is selected, the Printer Memory in the Setup menu will be automatically defined.

This works only when the printer's bi-directional interface mode is also activated.  Be sure that your printer should be set to Bi-Directional on if Bi-Directional in this Advanced menu is on.   When the printer's bi-directional is off, every time the driver tries to read the printer status, the warning message appears and it will not succeed in reading back the printer status.   When your printer's bi-directional interface mode is off, set this Bi-Directional check box off.

The status of print job can be monitored during printing by selecting both of the Bi-Directional check box and the Show Status Window check box.

Show Status Window


Show Status Window

This reports the job title, page number and printer status ( ONLINE and any errors that occur on the printer) during printing.

If you do not need the Status Window and would like to continue your job in Windows applications, you can speed up your job by setting the Show Status Window off.

If the Bi-Directional Interface is not on, it is always set to off.

Bi-Directional Interface