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Driver and software

Printer driver

A printer driver is software that translates data from the format used by a computer to the format that a 
particular printer needs. Typically, this format is a printer command language or page description language.

The printer drivers for the following version of Windows

®

 and Macintosh

®

 are on the CD-ROM that we have 

supplied. You can also download the latest printer driver for all of the following operating systems from the 
Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com

The installation instructions for installing the printer driver for Windows

®

 and Macintosh

®

 are in the Quick 

Setup Guide.

If you want to uninstall the printer driver, see 

Uninstalling the printer driver

 on page 2-14.

For Windows

®

 95/98/Me, Windows NT

®

 4.0 and Windows

®

 2000/XP

•

Windows printer driver (Hewlett-Packard LaserJet laser printer compatible driver) (For HL-2070N)

•

 Brother GDI printer driver for Windows

®

 (For HL-2030 and HL-2040)

•

Generic PCL Driver (For users of Citrix

®

 MetaFrame

®

, Windows

®

 Terminal Server environments and other 

Windows NT 4.0

®

 and Windows

®

 2000/XP network shared environments, we recommend the use of our Generic 

PCL Driver. This driver only supports basic printing functions.) (For HL-2070N: For Windows

NT

®

4.0 and 

Windows

® 

2000/XP.) 

For Macintosh

®

•

Brother Laser driver for Macintosh

®

For Linux

•

GDI printer driver

Note

For more infomation about 

Generic PCL Driver

and

Linux printer driver, please visit our web site at 

http://solutions.brother.com. 

Windows printer 

driver

GDI driver

Generic PCL 

Driver

Brother Laser 

driver

Windows

®

 95

L

(For HL-2070N)

L

(For HL-2040)

Windows NT

®

 4.0

L

(For HL-2070N)

Windows

®

 98/Me

L

(For HL-2030 and HL-2040)

Windows

®

 2000

Windows

®

 XP

L

(For HL-2070N)

Mac OS

®

 9.1 to 9.2 

Mac OS

®

 X 10.2.4 or greater

L

Linux (Mandrake 9.1, Red 
Hat 9.0, SuSE Linux 8.2, 
Debian 3.0r1)

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