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OpenPrinting Printers Brother HL-5150D

Brother HL-5150D
	Black & White laser printer, max. 2400x600 dpi, works Perfectly
	Recommended Driver: Postscript-Brother (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

21 pages per minute, duplex, PCL 5e, PCL 6, and PostScript Level 3, 16 MB (144 MB max.), one tray for 250 sheets (max A4/Legal, a second tray can be added), 50-sheet multi-purpose tray, parallel, USB 2.0.

There is also a Brother HL-5150DLT with a second 250-sheet tray included.

Best results are probably obtained when the printer is used in PostScript mode with a PPD file from the printer's driver CD.

For the PCL mode see the page of the Brother HL-5140.

Brother provides a driver, too, but binary-only and only for LPD/LPRng. According to the printout quality it is based on the "ljet4" Ghostscript driver. "pxlmono", "gimp-print" (600 dpi), and "hpijs-pcl5e" (600 dpi) give a better grayscale quality and all special features of the printer are accessible by PJL commands.

Consumables/Refills: Separate Toner and Drum

Drivers

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

Recommended driver:

Other drivers: