Using Brother Machine As A Printer; Special Printing Features; Windows Printing; Popular Printer Emulation Support - Brother MFC-8500 Owner's Manual

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Using Brother Machine as a
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Printer

Special Printing Features

Windows
The dedicated printer driver and TrueType™ compatible fonts for Microsoft
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Windows , 95/98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional and Windows NT
Version 4.0 are available on the CD-ROM supplied with your machine. You
can install them easily into your Windows
The driver supports our unique compression mode to enhance printing speed in
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Windows applications; it allows you to set various printer settings, including
economy printing mode and custom paper size.

Popular Printer Emulation Support

The machine supports HP LaserJet IIP printer emulation mode. If you use DOS
application software, you can use HP LaserJet IIP emulation mode for printer
operations. (Use the Remote Printer Console program to set the printer
emulation.)

Remote Printer Console Program for DOS

The MFL Pro Suite CD-ROM supplied with your machine includes the utility
program Remote Printer Console (RPC). When you operate your computer in
the Disk Operating System (DOS) environment, RPC lets you easily change the
Brother machine's default settings (such as fonts, page setup, emulations, etc.).
RPC also provides a status monitor Terminate-and-Stay Resident (TSR)
program. It runs in the background and monitors the printer status as it reports
the current status or errors on your PC screen.

Bi-directional Parallel Interface

The Brother machine's parallel interface enables it to send memory and printer
setup information to the computer.

Enhanced Memory Management

The Brother machine has its own Data Compression Technology, which
automatically compresses graphic data and downloads font data efficiently into
the machine's memory. With the machine's standard memory, you can avoid
memory errors and print most full-page, 600 dpi graphic and text data, including
larger fonts.
U S I N G B R O T H E R M A C H I N E A S A P R I N T E R
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Printing
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system using our installer program.
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