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  • WHQL Certified Enhanced Generic PCL Driver for Windows 2000/XP



What is a Generic 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 Brother Generic Drivers. These drivers can be used on any Brother monochrome laser printer/multi-function product that supports PCL 4 or higher.

This Generic driver:

  • Contains three printer drivers, which must be installed using the "Add Printer Wizard". If you have several different printer products, click here and see what printer driver should be installed for each product.

    Brother PCL4 Driver:
    Use this driver(BHPCL4.INF) if your Brother product only supports PCL 4.(HL-1440 is applicable.) Please note, this driver supports a maximum print resolution of 300 x 300 dpi and does NOT support the optional paper input and paper output options that are available on some Brother monochrome laser products.

    Brother PCL5e Driver:
    Use this driver(BHPCL5E.INF) if your Brother product supports PCL 5 or later. (HL-1450 and HL-1470N are applicable.) This driver supports a maximum print resolution of 600 x 600 dpi and supports up to 2 paper input trays and only 1 paper output tray.

    Brother PCL5e Generic Driver:
    Use this driver(BHPCL5G.INF) if your Brother product supports PCL 5 or later. This driver supports a maximum print resolution of 600 x 600 dpi and supports up to 4 paper input trays and up to 10 paper output trays. (Mailbox)

  • Has a simpler user interface than a standard Brother driver
  • Uses less bandwidth than standard Brother drivers.
  • Does not include all the driver features you would expect from a standard Brother Windows driver.

For example, the driver does not include:

  • Graphical user interface
  • Poster Printing capabilities
  • Manual Duplex Printing capabilities
  • HQ1200 Printing capabilities
  • Watermark capabilities

How to Download and Install
  1. Please make a temporary directory on your HDD to save the downloaded self-extracting file. e.g.. C:\brodnt
  2. Start downloading.
  3. Once downloading is complete, double click on the downloaded file to extract it.
  4. Click on "Start"=>"Settings"=> "Printers" or "Printers and Faxes" =>"Add Printer".
  5. Click on "Next".
  6. Set "Local printer" or "Network printer" for the target printer and click on "Next".
  7. Click on "Next".
  8. Select a port and click on "Next".
  9. Click on [Have Disk] and type the directory where the extracted files exist or click on [Browse] and click the drop down menu in the DRIVES field and select the directory where the extracted files exist.
    For HL-1440 Users:
    Select "BHPCL4.INF".

    For HL-1450 and HL-1470N Users:
    Select "BHPCL5E.INF".
  10. Click on "Open" and "OK".
  11. For HL-1440 Users:
    Select "Brother PCL4 Driver" and click on "Next".

    For HL-1450 and HL-1470N Users:

    Select "Brother PCL5e Driver" and click on "Next".

If you already installed this driver, go to Step12
If not, go to Step13

  1. Select "Replace existing driver".
  2. Name your printer and click on "Next".
  3. Set "Do not share this printer" or "Share as XXX" and click on "Next".
  4. Click on "Yes" or "No" about Test Print
  5. Click on "Finish".

 

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