Brother HL-730Plus Service Manual page 9

Versatile Paper Handling
Environment-Friendly
Remote Printer Console Program for DOS
Popular Printer Emulation Support
Optional Apple Macintosh Interface
Enhanced Memory Management
The printer has a multi-purpose sheet feeder and straight paper path
mechanism. Using this mechanism, you can load A4, letter, legal, B5,
A5, and executive sizes of paper, and various types of paper including
envelopes, postcards, organizer paper, or a custom paper size. The
multi-purpose sheet feeder also allows manual paper loading, so you
can use labels and transparencies.
Economy Printing Mode
This feature will save your printing cost by saving toner. It is useful to
obtain draft copies for proof-reading. You can select from two
economy modes, 25% toner saving and 50% toner saving, through
the Windows printer driver supplied with your printer.
Sleep Mode
Sleep mode automatically reduces power consumption when the
printer is not in use. The printer consumes less than 7W when in
sleep mode. The time-out for auto sleep mode can be set through the
Windows printer driver.
Low Running Cost
Since the toner cartridge is separate from the Drum Unit, you need to
replace only the toner cartridge after around 2,200 pages printed,
which is cost effective and ecologically friendly.
The utility program, Remote Printer Console (RPC), is available on
the floppy disk supplied with your printer. When you operate your
computer in the DOS (Disk Operating System) environment, this
program allows you to easily change the default settings of the printer
such as fonts, page setup, emulations and so on.
This program also provides a status monitor program, which is a
Terminate-and-Stay Resident (TSR) program. It can monitor the
printer status while running in the background and report the current
status or errors on your computer screen.
This printer supports three printer emulation modes, HP LaserJet IIP,
Epson FX-850, and IBM Proprinter XL. When you use DOS
application software or Windows™ version 3.0 or earlier, you can use
any of these emulations to operate the printer in the 300 dpi resolution
mode. The printer also supports Auto-emulation switching between
HP and Epson or HP and IBM. If you want to set the printer emulation,
you can do it using the Remote Printer Console Program.
The optional Apple Macintosh serial interface kit is available, which
allows your printer to be connected to Apple Macintosh computers.
With this option, you can use your printer with both an IBM PC, or
compatible and an Apple Macintosh at the same time. This optional
interface board can be used as an RS-422A interface for Macintosh or
an RS-232C serial interface for IBM PC or compatible.
The printer provides its own data compression technology on its
printer hardware and the supplied printer driver software, which can
automatically compress graphic data and font data efficiently into the
printer's memory. You can avoid memory errors and print most full
page 600 dpi graphic and text data, including large fonts, with the
printer's standard memory.