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, Uninstalling the printer driver.

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.

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	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)

You can change the following printer settings when you print from your computer.

• Paper Size
• Multiple Page
• Orientation
• Copies
• Media Type
• Paper Source
• Resolution
• Toner Save Mode
• Manual Duplex printing*1
• Watermark*1
• Job Spooling*1
• Quick Print Setup*1
• Sleep Time*1
• Status Monitor*1
• Macro*1*3
• Administrator*1*2
• Insert Command/File*1*2*3
• Page Protection*1
• Print Date & Time*1
• Density adjustment*1
• True Type Mode*1*3
• Error Message Printout*1

*1 These settings are not available with Brother Laser driver for Macintosh®.

*2 These settings are not available with Windows NT® 4.0 and Windows® 2000/XP.

*3 These settings are not available for HL-2030 and HL-2040.

For Windows®

Features in the printer driver

You can download the latest printer driver or get other information by accessing the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com

You can also change settings by clicking the illustration on the left side of the Basic tab in the Properties dialog box.

For more information, please see the Help text in the printer driver.

Note

The screens in this section are from Windows® XP. The screens on your PC will vary depending on your Operating System.

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Basic tab

Note

If you are using Windows® 2000 or XP, you can access the Basic tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties screen.

If you are using Windows NT® 4.0, you can access the Basic tab by clicking Document Defaults... in the file menu of the Printers folder.

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Advanced tab

Note

If you are using Windows® 2000 or XP, you can access the Advanced tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties screen.

If you are using Windows NT® 4.0, you can access the Advanced tab by clicking Document Defaults in the file menu of the Printers and Faxes folder.

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Change the tab settings by clicking the following icons:

1. Print Quality
2. Duplex Printing
3. Watermark
4. Page Setting
5. Device Options

Print Quality

Select the resolution, toner save mode and print settings or gray printing setting.

Resolution

You can change the resolution as follows:

• HQ 1200

• 600 dpi

• 300 dpi

Toner Save Mode

You can save running costs by turning on the toner save mode, which reduces the print density.

Print Setting

You can manually change the Print setting.

• Auto

Selecting the Auto button will allow automatic printing with the most suitable print settings for your print job.

• Manual

You can change the settings manually by selecting the Manual button and clicking the Setting... button.

For Windows® 95/98/Me users: brightness, contrast and other settings.

For Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000/XP users: Printer Halftone, System Halftone, Improve gray printing.

Duplex Printing

• Manual Duplex

If you select Manual Duplex, the dialog box for the manual duplex settings will appear. There are six types of manual duplex binding directions available for each orientation.

• Binding Offset

If you check the Binding Offset option, you can also specify the offset for binding in inches or millimeters.

Watermark

You can put a watermarked logo or text into your documents.

When you use a bitmap file as a watermark, you can change the size of the watermark and put it anywhere you like on the page.

When you use text as a watermark, you can change the font, darkness and angle settings.

Page Setting

You can change the print image scaling and select Mirror / Reverse print options.

Device Options

You can set the following Printer Function modes in this tab:

(You can jump to the page for each Printer Function by clicking the function name in the list below.)

• Job Spooling

• Quick Print Setup

• Sleep Time

• Status Monitor

• Macro (For HL-2070N)

• Administrator (For Windows® 95/98/Me users only)

• Insert Command/File (For HL-2070N: For Windows® 95/98/Me users only)

• Page Protection

• Print Date & Time

• Density adjustment

• Error Message Printout

Note

The Printer Function list may differ depending on the model.

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Job Spooling

The printer saves data that you want to reprint.

You can reprint a document without sending the data again from your PC. To reprint press and hold down the Go button for about 4 seconds until all the LEDs light up in order (Toner, Drum, Paper, Ready).

Note

• Reprint function is not available for multiple copies.

• If you want to prevent other people from printing your data using the Reprint function, clear the Use Reprint check box in the job spooling settings.

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Quick Print Setup

You can turn the Quick Print Setup function ON or OFF. A small selection window appears on your computer. This will then let you make changes to the settings of the following functions:

• Multiple Page

• Manual Duplex Printing

• Toner Save Mode

• Paper Source

• Media Type

Sleep Time

When the printer does not receive data for a certain period of time (timeout), it enters sleep mode. Sleep mode acts as though the printer was turned off. The default time-out is 5 minutes. When Intelligent Sleep Mode is selected, it is automatically adjusted to the most suitable time-out setting depending on how often you use your printer. While the printer is in sleep mode, all the LEDs are off, but the printer can still receive data from the computer. Receiving a print file or document automatically wakes up the printer to start printing. Pressing the Go button will also wake up the printer.

Sleep mode can be turned off. To turn sleep mode off, go to the Advanced tab, select Device Options and then select Sleep Time. Double click the word Sleep Time in the Sleep Time screen, this will allow the Sleep Time Off function to appear, click Sleep Time Off to stop the printer from going into sleep mode. The Sleep Time Off function can be hidden by double clicking the word Sleep Time in the Sleep Time screen again. We recommend that you keep Sleep mode on for power saving.

Status Monitor

This reports the printer status (any errors that may happen with the printer) when printing. The default setting for the Status Monitor is off. If you would like to turn the status monitor on, go to the Advanced tab, select Device options and then select Status monitor.

Macro (For HL-2070N)

You can save a page of a document as a macro to the printer memory. Moreover, you can execute the saved macro - in other words, you can use the saved macro as an overlay on any document. This will save time and increase printing speed for often used information such as forms, company logos, letterhead formats or invoices.

Administrator (For Windows® 95/98/Me users only)

Administrators have the authority to limit the Number of copies, Scaling setting and Watermark setting functions.

• Password

Enter the password into this box.

• Set Password

Click here to change the password.

• COPY LOCK

Lock the copy pages selection to prevent multiple copy printing.

• WATERMARK LOCK

Lock the current settings of the Watermark option to prevent changes being made.

• SCALING LOCK

Lock the scaling setting as shown below.

1 in 1

100%

Insert Command/File (For HL-2070N: For Windows® 95/98/Me users only)

This option allows data to be inserted into a print job.

Using this function allows you to do the following.

• Insert a print file or tiff format file into a print job.

• Insert a text string into a print job.

• Insert a macro, which is saved in printer memory, into a print job.

Page Protection

Page Protection refers to a setting that reserves additional memory for the creation of full page images.

Selections are AUTO, OFF and Printer Default.

The page protection feature allows the printer to create the full page image to be printed in memory before physically moving the paper through the printer. When the image is very complicated and the printer has to wait to process the image before printing, use this function.

Print Date & Time

Date: Specifies the format of the date.

Time: Specifies the format of the time.

Density adjustment

Increase or decrease the print density.

Error Message Printout

You can choose whether the printer reports problem by printing error page or not. About the errors, Error message printout.

Selections are Printer Default (ON), ON and OFF.

Tray Settings tab

Support tab

Note

If you are using Windows® 2000 or XP, you can access the Support tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties screen.

If you are using Windows NT® 4.0, you can access the Support tab by clicking Document Defaults... in the file menu of the Printers folder.

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• You can download the latest driver or get other product information by accessing the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com
• You can see the printer driver version.
• You can check the current driver settings.
• You can print the printer settings page and the internal fonts list. (The internal fonts list is available for HL-2070N only.)

For Macintosh®

This printer supports Mac OS® 9.1 to 9.2 and Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater.

You can download the latest printer driver by accessing the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com

Note

The screens in this section are from Mac OS® X 10.3.

The screens on your Macintosh® will vary depending on your Operating System.

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Page setup

You can set the Paper size, Orientation and Scale.

Print

Layout

Set the Pages per Sheet, Layout direction and Border.

Pages per sheet: Select how many pages will appear on each side of the paper.

Layout direction: When you specify the Pages per sheet, you can also specify the direction of the layout.

Border: If you want to add a border, use this function.

Print settings

Set the Resolution, Media Type, Toner Save and other settings.

You can change settings by selecting the setting in the Printer Settings list:

• Quality
• Media Type
• Toner Save Mode

Quality

You can change the resolution as follows:

• 300 dpi

• 600 dpi

• HQ 1200

Media Type

You can change the media type as follows:

• Plain Paper

• Recycled Paper

• Thick Paper

• Transparencies

• Thicker Paper

• Thin Paper

• Bond Paper

• Envelopes

• Env.Thin

• Env.Thick

Toner Save Mode

You can save running costs by turning on the Toner Save setting, which reduces the print density.

Uninstalling the printer driver

You can uninstall the printer driver that you installed with the following steps.

Note

• This instruction is not available if you installed the printer driver from Windows Add Printer function.

• After uninstalling, we recommend that you restart your PC to remove files that were in use during uninstall.

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Printer driver for Windows®

For Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows NT® 4.0 and Windows® 2000

1. Click Start and select your appropriate printer from Programs.
2. Select UnInstall.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

For Windows® XP

1. Click Start and select your appropriate printer from ALL Programs.
2. Select UnInstall.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Brother Laser driver for Macintosh®

For Mac OS® 9.1 to 9.2

1. Open the Extensions folder located in the System Folder on the Macintosh HD.
2. Drag all these following files in the Extensions folder to the trash.

• BR_PrintMonitor(laser)

• Brother Laser

• Brother Laser(IP)

Note

There may be several of the USB Print Driver(BRXXX)* and BR_PrintMonitor(BXX)* extensions with different endings.

*The 'x' refers to the model of your machine.

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3. Restart the Macintosh®.
4. Once the computer has restarted you can then dump the trash.

For Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater

1. Disconnect the USB cable between the Macintosh and your printer.
2. Restart the Mac.
3. Log on as an "Administrator".
4. Run the Print Center (from the Go menu > Applications > Utilities > Print Center folder), then choose the printer you want to remove and remove it by clicking the Delete button.
5. Click on the name of your printer in the printer list. From the Finder menu, delete the Printer.
6. Drag the HL-MFLPro folder (from the Mac OS X 10.X > Library > Printers > Brother) into the Trash bin and then empty the trash bin.
7. Restart the Macintosh®.