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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

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

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