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Brother MFC-8300
 
Black & White laser printer, max. 600x600 dpi, works Partially
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

HP LaserJet (PCL drivers) work OK for small print files, but give "Memory full" error messages on large print jobs, even at low resolution.

The device does all jobs correctly with the "hl7x0" driver.

The memory is upgradable; We do not know if it is standard memory or a funky module.

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: toner cartridge

Drivers

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

Recommended driver:

 
hl7x0  (driver home page)
 
Driver for Brother's proprietary printer language (works also on the PCL/PS models)
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:|||||||||||  95Graphics:|||||||||||  65System Load:Unknown
Line Art:|||||||||||  95Photo:|||||||||||  35Speed:||||||||||  100
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This driver is obsolete.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:||||||||||  90Graphics:||||||||||  100System Load:Unknown
Line Art:||||||||||  90Photo:||||||||||  100Speed:||||||||||  60
 

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

 
ljet3  (driver home page)
 
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript built-in
Download:PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD