Driver And Software; Printer Driver - Brother HL-5240L User Manual

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Driver and Software

Printer driver

A printer driver is software that translates data from the format used by a computer to the format that a particular printer
needs. Typically, this format is page description language (PDL).
The printer drivers for the following version of Windows
the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com. Install the drivers by following the Quick Setup Guide. The
latest printer driver can be downloaded from the Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com.
If you want to uninstall the printer driver, see Uninstalling the printer driver on page 40.
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For Windows
Windows printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product)
BR-Script (PostScript ® 3
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Generic PCL Driver (For users of Citrix Presentation Server
and other Windows NT 4.0 ® and Windows ® 2000/XP network shared environments, we recommend the use of our generic PCL
Driver. This driver only supports basic printing functions.)
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For Macintosh
Brother Laser driver for Macintosh ®
BR-Script (PostScript ® 3
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For Linux
LPR printer driver
CUPS printer driver
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For more infomation about the generic PCL Driver and Linux printer driver, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com.
• The printer driver for Linux may be released after the initial release of this product.
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Windows 95/98/Me
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Windows NT 4.0
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Windows 2000 Professional
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Windows XP Home Edition
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Windows XP Professional
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Windows XP Professional x64
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Edition
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Mac OS 9.1 to 9.2
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Mac OS X 10.2.4 or greater
Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat,
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SuSE Linux, Debian)
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Download the printer driver from http://solutions.brother.com.
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Windows BR-Script
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and Macintosh are on the CD-ROM we have supplied or on
(Citrix ® MetaFrame ® ), Windows ® Terminal Server environments
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Generic PCL
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Brother Laser LPR / CUPS
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