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The Linux Foundation OpenPrinting Printers Brother HL-2030

Brother HL-2030
	Black & White laser printer, max. 2400x600 dpi, works Mostly
	Recommended Driver: hl1250 (Home page, View PPD, directly download PPD)
	Generic Instructions: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler

Discussion forum

Look for help in our forum for printers from Brother.

Miscellaneous

Printer supports PJL.
Contrib URL: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html

Comments

USB connection, max. paper size A4, toner-saving functionality 0, 25%, 50%

Tested with CUPS on OpenSUSE 10.0:

Download-RPMs from Brother did not work, but using the PPD for the Brother HL-2060 foomatic/hl1250 did work (Media Source: Automatic, Media Type: Plain Paper, Page Size: A4, Resolution: 300dpi/600dpi, Toner-Saving: 0/25%/50%)

Using kprinter-gui from KDE "2 pages on one sheet" did not work (maybe solveable), but normal functions work without problems under OpenOffice, KPDF, XPDF, Firefox ...

Another user: Downloading and installing the RPMs from Brother worked for me (using SuSE 10 and KDE). With the HL-2030 drivers, the text was first shifted too far up on the page; this went away after deleting the printer in YaST2 and adding it again. Works fine now, difference to first user entry: Toner Saving only "on" or "off", but can select from a list of different paper sizes and media types. Printing two or four pages per sheet works fine from kpdf.

Another user: On Fedora Core 4, with KDE. hl1250 driver worked for me, except when printing 2 pages on one sheet (margins were wrong). hl2030 driver from brother works perfectly for me.

Another user: Also works fine (multiple pages, toner save etc) on Kubuntu 6.06 with the Debian Brother drivers. Easy installation instructions here. I first had to enable the browser-based admin for cupsys.

Note: 12 Dec 06: Brother now seems to have new .deb drivers that also support 1200 dpi resolution.

Another user: If you only get low-resolution graphics when printing PDFs (using Acrobat) try using the hpijs-pcl5e driver instead of the recommended hl1250.

Another user: With Ubuntu 7.10, the printer worked out of the box. No installation, no anything.

Another user: Works pretty well with Brother's HL-2030 driver. The only minor problem I have for the moment is that the margins are larger than announced.

Consumables/Refills: Toner: Brother toner TN-2000 s/w (2.500 pages at 5%); drum unit: DR-2000

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Drivers

The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:

Recommended driver:

hl1250  (driver home page)
	For Debian Etch users: take ljet4 filter from magicfilter and change the gs invocation to "[...] sDEVICE=hl1250 [...]", then configure lprng/magicfilter as usual. This driver is free software.
	Type: Ghostscript built-in
	Download:	PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD

Other drivers:

gimp-print  (driver home page)
	This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: gutenprint
	This driver is free software.
	Type: CUPS Raster

gutenprint  (driver home page)
	Top Quality Printer Drivers for inkjets, dye sublimation printers, and PCL lasers Supplier: Gutenprint project License: GPL (free software)
	User support:	Gutenprint mailing list at SourceForge (voluntary)
	Color output   Type: CUPS Raster
	Text:	||||||||||  90	Graphics:	||||||||||  100	System Load:	Unknown
	Line Art:	||||||||||  90	Photo:	||||||||||  100	Speed:	||||||||||  60
	Download:	Driver packages: x86 32 bit: 5.0.1 (RPM for LSB 3.1), 5.0.1 (DEB for LSB 3.1), 5.2.5 (RPM for LSB 3.2), 5.2.5 (DEB for LSB 3.2), x86 64 bit: 5.0.1 (RPM for LSB 3.1), 5.0.1 (DEB for LSB 3.1), 5.2.5 (RPM for LSB 3.2), 5.2.5 (DEB for LSB 3.2) (How to install)

hpijs-pcl5e  (driver home page)
	HP's HPIJS driver - PPDs for compatible PCL-5e-based non-HP laser printers Supplier: Hewlett-Packard License: BSD (free software)
	User support:	HPLIP support and bug tracking system (voluntary)
	Max. rendering resolution: 600x600dpi   Only monochrome output   Type: IJS
	Text:	||||||||||  100	Graphics:	||||||||||  100	System Load:	Unknown
	Line Art:	||||||||||  100	Photo:	||||||||||  100	Speed:	||||||||||  70
	Download:	PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD

lj4dith  (driver home page)
	This driver is free software.
	Type: Ghostscript built-in
	Download:	PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD

lj5gray  (driver home page)
	This driver is free software.
	Type: Ghostscript built-in
	Download:	PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD

ljet4  (driver home page)
	Built-in Ghostscript driver for PCL 5e laser printers Supplier: GPL Ghostscript License: GPL (free software)
	User support:	OpenPrinting forums (voluntary)
	Max. rendering resolution: 600x600dpi   Only monochrome output   Type: Ghostscript built-in
	Text:	||||||||||  90	Graphics:	||||||||||  60	System Load:	Unknown
	Line Art:	||||||||||  90	Photo:	||||||||||  30	Speed:	||||||||||  90
	Download:	PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD

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