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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 page description language (PDL).

The printer drivers for the following version of Windows

®

 and Macintosh

®

 are on the CD-ROM we have supplied or on 

the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com. Install the drivers by following the Quick Setup Guide. The 
latest printer driver can be downloaded from the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com.
If you want to uninstall the printer driver, see 

Uninstalling the printer driver

 on page 40.

For Windows

®

„

Windows printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product) 

„

BR-Script (PostScript®3

™

 language emulation) printer driver

„

Generic PCL Driver (For users of Citrix Presentation Server

™

 (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 Macintosh

®

„

Brother Laser driver for Macintosh®

„

BR-Script (PostScript®3

™

 language emulation) printer driver

For Linux

„

LPR printer driver

„

CUPS printer driver

Note

•

For more infomation about the generic PCL Driver and Linux printer driver, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com.

• The printer driver for Linux may be released after the initial release of this product.

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Download the printer driver  from http://solutions.brother.com.

Driver and Software

Windows 
printer driver

BR-Script 
printer driver

Generic PCL 
Driver

 1

Brother Laser 
driver

LPR / CUPS 
printer driver 

Windows

®

 95/98/Me

p

p

Windows NT

®

 4.0

Windows

®

 2000 Professional

Windows

®

 XP Home Edition

Windows

®

 XP Professional

p

p

p

Windows

®

 XP Professional x64 

Edition

 1

p

p

Mac OS

®

 9.1 to 9.2

Mac OS

®

 X 10.2.4 or greater

p

p

Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat, 
SuSE Linux, Debian)

 1

p