Brother HL-5250DN series User Manual

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 ® and Macintosh ® are on the CD-ROM we have supplied or on
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.
For Windows ®
m Windows printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product)
J BR-Script (PostScript®3 TM language emulation) printer driver
Generic PCL Driver (For users of Citrix Presentation Server TM (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 Macintosh ®
m Brother Laser driver for Macintosh ®
BR-Script (PostScript®3 TM language emulation) printer driver
For Linux
LPR printer driver
CUPS printer driver
Note
• 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.
Windows ® 95/98/Me (_) (_)
Windows NT ® 4.0
Windows ® 2000 Professional
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Windows XP Home Edition
Windows ® XP Professional
Windows ® XP Professional x64
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Edition 1
Mac OS ® 9.1 to 9.2 (_) (_)
Mac OS ® X 10.2.4 or greater
Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat,
SuSE Linux, Debian) 1 (_
1 Download the printer driver from http://solutions.brother.com.
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Brother HL-5250DN series Specifications

General

Brand	Brother
Model	HL-5250DN series
Category	Print Server
Language	English