Printer: Brother DCP-1200 | OpenPrinting


	Brother DCP-1200

Black & White laser printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Partially

Recommended Driver: hl1250 (Home page, View PPD, directly download PPD)

Generic Instructions: CUPS, no spooler

Miscellaneous

Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.

Comments

Works fine w/FreeBSD and Ghostscript 6.0 and ljet2p driver networked via NT/lpd, haven't used direct attach. Economical Laser/Scanner copier w/20k page life on Drum and 6k pages on high cap toner cart for a total consumable cost of ~2 cents per page drum scanning is almost certain to not work.
Parallel or USB connector.

Brother publishes proprietary Linux drivers for CUPS and LPD for most of their laser printers and multi-function devices, including SANE drivers for the scanners. They can be downloaded free of charge on their Linux driver page.

Consumables/Refills: Seperate Drum and Toner, Low & High Cap - ~$140 Drum, ~$90 Toner

Drivers

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

Recommended driver:


	hl1250 (driver home page)

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This driver is obsolete.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:

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Graphics:

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System Load:

Unknown

Line Art:

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Photo:

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Speed:

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	ljet2p (driver home page)

This driver is free software.

Type: Ghostscript built-in

Download:

PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD