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3 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.
For Windows® 98/Me, Windows® 2000/XP and Windows Vista®
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Brother GDI printer driver for Windows®
For Macintosh®
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Brother Laser driver for Macintosh®
For Linux
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GDI printer driver
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For more infomation about Generic PCL Driver and Linux printer driver, please visit our web site at http://solutions.brother.com
 
GDI driver
Brother Laser driver
Windows® 98/Me
Windows® 2000
Windows® XP
Windows Vista®
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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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You can change the following printer settings when you print from your computer.
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Paper Size
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Multiple Page
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Orientation
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Copies
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Media Type
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Paper Source
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Resolution
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Toner Save Mode
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Manual Duplex printing1
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Watermark1
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Job Spooling1
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Quick Print Setup1
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Sleep Time1
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Status Monitor1
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Administrator1 2
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Page Protection1
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Print Date & Time1
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Density adjustment1
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Error Message Printout1
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These settings are not available with Brother Laser driver for Macintosh®.
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These settings are not available with Windows® 2000/XP and Windows Vista®.

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

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If you are using Windows® 2000, XP or Windows Vista®, you can access the Basic tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties screen.
You can also change settings by clicking the illustration on the left side of the Basic tab.
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Choose the Paper Size, Multiple Page, Orientation, Copies and Media Type (1).
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Choose the Paper Source (2).
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Click OK to apply your chosen settings.
To return to the default settings, click Default, then OK.
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Advanced tab

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If you are using Windows® 2000, XP or Windows Vista®, you can access the Advanced tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties screen.
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Change the tab settings by clicking one following icons:
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Print Quality (1)
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Duplex Printing (2)
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Watermark (3)
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Page Setting (4)
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Device Options (5)
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Print Quality

Select the resolution, toner save mode and print settings or gray printing setting.
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Resolution
You can change the resolution as follows:
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HQ 1200
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600 dpi
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300 dpi
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Toner Save Mode
You can save running costs by turning on the toner save mode, which reduces the print density.
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Print Setting
You can manually change the Print setting.
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Auto
Selecting the Auto button will allow automatic printing with the most suitable print settings for your print job.
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Manual
You can change the settings manually by selecting the Manual button and clicking the Setting... button.
For Windows® 98/Me users: brightness, contrast and other settings.
For Windows® 2000/XP, Windows Vista® users: Printer Halftone, System Halftone, Improve gray printing.
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Duplex Printing

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

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

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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.)
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Job Spooling
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Quick Print Setup
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Sleep Time
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Status Monitor
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Administrator (For Windows® 98/Me users only)
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Page Protection
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Print Date & Time
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Density adjustment
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Error Message Printout
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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, Error, Ready).
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Reprint function is not available for multiple copies.
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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:
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Multiple Page
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Manual Duplex Printing
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Toner Save Mode
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Paper Source
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Media Type
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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.
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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 on. If you would like to turn the Status Monitor off, you can change the setting of the Status Monitor in the Device Options of the Advanced tab.
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Administrator (For Windows® 98/Me users only)
Administrators have the authority to limit the Number of copies, Scaling setting and Watermark setting functions.
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Password
Enter the password into this box.
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Set Password
Click here to change the password.
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COPY LOCK
Lock the copy pages selection to prevent multiple copy printing.
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WATERMARK LOCK
Lock the current settings of the Watermark option to prevent changes being made.
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SCALING LOCK
Lock the scaling setting as shown below. 1 in 1 100%
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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.
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Print Date & Time
Date: Specifies the format of the date.
Time: Specifies the format of the time.
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Density adjustment
Increase or decrease the print density.
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Error Message Printout
You can choose whether the printer reports problem by printing error page or not. About the errors, see Error message printout.
Selections are Printer Default (ON), ON and OFF.
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Tray Settings tab

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Paper Source Setting (1)
This feature recognizes the paper size in each paper tray.
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Support tab
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If you are using Windows® 2000, XP or Windows Vista®, you can access the Support tab by clicking Printing Preferences... in the General tab of the Printer Properties screen.
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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
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You can see the printer driver version.
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You can check the current driver settings.
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You can print the printer settings page.
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