Five Emulation Modes; Automatic Emulation Selection; Data Compression Technology - Brother HL-3450CN Series User Manual

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

Five Emulation Modes

This printer can emulate the Hewlett-Packard
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(PCL6 in monochrome printing) printers, PostScript
(Brother BR-Script3) printers, the industry-standard HP-GL™ plotter as well
as EPSON
printing only). You can print with all application programs that support one
of these printers.

Automatic Emulation Selection

This printer can automatically select the printer emulation mode depending
on the print commands it receives from the computer software. With this
feature, many users can share the printer on a network.

Data Compression Technology

This printer can internally compress the received graphics and font data in
its memory so it can print larger graphics and more fonts without the need
for additional memory.
Various Fonts
This printer has 66 scalable and 12 bitmapped fonts. The fonts that can be
used will vary according to the selected emulation mode.
In PCL mode, you can print 13 kinds of bar codes that are listed on the next
page. In BR-Script mode, the printer has 165 scalable fonts.
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FX-850™ and IBM
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Color PCL
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Proprinter XL printers (for monochrome
1-8
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5C language
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3 language emulation