Printer - Brother MFC-8500 Owner's Manual

Printer

Emulation
Printer Driver
Interface
Memory Capacity
Print Method
Resolution
Print Quality
Print Speed
Consumable Items
Toner life expectancy will vary depending upon the type of average print job.
Drum Unit Life Expectancy: up to 20,000 pages
There are many factors that determine the actual drum life, such as a
temperature, humidity, type of paper, toner you use and number of pages per
print job.
True Type Fonts
on CD-ROM
Brother Printing System for Windows
emulation mode of HP LaserJet IIP (PCL level 4)
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Windows 95/98/98SE/Me/2000 and Windows
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NT Workstation Version 4.0 driver supporting
Brother Native Compression mode and bi-
directional capability
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Apple Macintosh
8.6/9.0/9.0.4/9.1
Bi-directional parallel (IEEE 1284);
USB (Universal Serial Bus) Interface
8 MB
Electrophotography by semiconductor laser
beam scanning
600 dots/inch
Normal printing mode
Economy printing mode (saves up to 50% of the
normal toner usage)
Up to 15 pages/minute (when loading letter size
or Letter paper from paper cassette)
Toner cartridge Life Expectancy:
Up to 6,000 pages/high yield toner cartridges
Up to 3,000 pages/standard toner cartridges
(when printing letter size or A4 paper at 5%
print coverage)
35 TrueType compatible soft-fonts for
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Windows on the on bundled CD-ROM
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and
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QuickDraw Driver for OS
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