Brother 2040 - Driver and Software; Printer Driver Overview

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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 a printer command language or page description language.
The printer drivers for the following version of Windows
®
and Macintosh
®
are on the CD-ROM that we have
supplied. You can also download the latest printer driver for all of the following operating systems from the
Brother Solutions Center at http://solutions.brother.com
The installation instructions for installing the printer driver for Windows
®
and Macintosh
®
are in the Quick
Setup Guide.
If you want to uninstall the printer driver, see Uninstalling the printer driver on page 2-14.
For Windows
®
95/98/Me, Windows NT
®
4.0 and Windows
®
2000/XP
• Windows printer driver (Hewlett-Packard LaserJet laser printer compatible driver) (For HL-2070N)
• Brother GDI printer driver for Windows
®
(For HL-2030 and HL-2040)
• Generic PCL Driver (For users of Citrix
®
MetaFrame
®
, Windows
®
Terminal Server environments 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.) (For HL-2070N: For Windows
NT
®
4.0 and
Windows
®
2000/XP.)
For Macintosh
®
• Brother Laser driver for Macintosh
®
For Linux
• GDI printer driver
Note
For more infomation about Generic PCL Driver and Linux printer driver, please visit our web site at
http://solutions.brother.com
.
Windows printer
driver
GDI driver
Generic PCL
Driver
Brother Laser
driver
Windows
®
95
L
(For HL-2070N)
L
(For HL-2040)
Windows NT
®
4.0 L
(For HL-2070N)
Windows
®
98/Me
L
(For HL-2030 and HL-2040)
Windows
®
2000
Windows
®
XP
L
(For HL-2070N)
Mac OS
®
9.1 to 9.2
Mac OS
®
X 10.2.4 or greater
L
Linux (Mandrake 9.1, Red
Hat 9.0, SuSE Linux 8.2,
Debian 3.0r1)
L