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| Black & White laser printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Perfectly |  | ||||||||||||||
| Recommended Driver: hl7x0 (Home page, View PPD, directly download PPD) | |||||||||||||||
| Generic Instructions: CUPS, no spooler | |||||||||||||||
Miscellaneous
Printer supports PJL.
Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.
Comments
PCL printing is slower than Windows printing; "hl7x0" printing should be similar.
Toner good for 2400 pages @ 5%, Drum life @ 20K pages.
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: TN-300HL Toner Cartridge $25; Drum Unit DR-300
Drivers
The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:
Recommended driver:
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Driver for Brother's proprietary printer language (works also on the PCL/PS models)
Works for 300 or 600dpi; faster than PCL. Supplier: Ghostscript License: GPL (free software) | ||||||||||||||||
| User support: | OpenPrinting forum for Brother printers (voluntary) | |||||||||||||||
| Max. rendering resolution: 2400x600dpi Only monochrome output Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||||||||||
| Text: | ||||||||||| 95 | Graphics: | ||||||||||| 65 | System Load: | Unknown | |||||||||||
| Line Art: | ||||||||||| 95 | Photo: | ||||||||||| 35 | Speed: | |||||||||| 100 | |||||||||||
| Download: | PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD | |||||||||||||||
Other drivers:
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| This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: gutenprint | ||||||||||||||||
| This driver is free software. | ||||||||||||||||
| Type: CUPS Raster | ||||||||||||||||
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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 | |||||||||||
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| Works for 300dpi. This driver is free software. | ||||||||||||||||
| Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||||||||||
| Download: | PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD | |||||||||||||||