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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
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
Windows printer
driver
GDI driver
Generic PCL
Driver
Brother Laser
driver
Windows
®
95
(For HL-2070N)
(For HL-2040)
Windows NT
®
4.0
(For HL-2070N)
Windows
®
98/Me
(For HL-2030 and HL-2040)
Windows
®
2000
Windows
®
XP
(For HL-2070N)
Mac OS
®
9.1 to 9.2
Mac OS
®
X 10.2.4 or greater
Linux (Mandrake 9.1, Red
Hat 9.0, SuSE Linux 8.2,
Debian 3.0r1)