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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 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

You can see the operations and detailed information in the Install Software section of the supplied 
CD-ROM. 

For Windows

®

■

PCL (Hewlett-Packard LaserJet laser printer) compatible printer driver (Standard printer driver)

■

BR-Script (PostScript

® 

3

TM

 language emulation) printer driver (PS printer driver)

For Macintosh

®

■

BR-Script (PostScript

® 

3

TM

 language emulation) printer driver (PS printer driver)

For more information, see the Network User’s Guide on the CD-ROM.

For Linux

■

GDI printer driver 

■

BR-Script (PostScript

® 

3

TM

 language emulation) printer driver (PS printer driver)

Driver and software

Operating system

PCL driver

GDI driver

BR-Script driver 
(PS driver)

Windows

®

 95/98/Me

Windows

®

 2000/XP

Windows NT

®

 4.0

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Mac OS

®

 8.6 to 9.2 

Mac OS

®

 X 10.1/10.2

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Linux (Mandrake 9.1, Red Hat 9.0, 
SuSE Linux 8.2)

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