Brother International HL 5280DW Users Manual - English - Page 34

3 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 versions 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 42. For Windows® „ Windows printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product) „ BR-Script (PostScript® 3™ language emulation) printer driver „ Generic PCL Driver (For users of Citrix Presentation Server™ (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® „ Brother Laser driver for Macintosh® „ BR-Script (PostScript®3™ 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 printer driver BR-Script printer driver Windows® 95/98/Me p p Windows NT® 4.0 Windows® 2000 Professional Windows® XP Home Edition p p Windows® XP Professional Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition 1 p p Mac OS® 9.1 to 9.2 Mac OS® X 10.2.4 or greater p Linux (Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE Linux, Debian) 1 1 Download the printer driver from http://solutions.brother.com. Generic PCL Driver 1 p Brother Laser LPR / CUPS driver printer driver p p 26