Brother HL-5280DW - Manual (Page 34)

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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 versions 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 42.
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.
1 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