| Brother HL-2030 | |
| BW laser printer, max. 2400x600 dpi, works Mostly |  |
| Recommended driver: hl1240 Generic instructions for: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler | |
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Notes
USB connection, max. paper size A4, toner-saving functionality 0, 25%, 50%
Tested with CUPS on OpenSUSE 10.0:
Download-RPMs from Brother did not work, but using the PPD for the Brother HL-2060 foomatic/hl1250 did work (media source: automatic, media type: plain paper, page size: a4, resolution 300dpi || 600dpi, toner-saving 0 || 25% || 50%)
Using kprinter-gui from KDE 2 pages on one sheet did not work (maybe solveable), but normal functions work without problems under OpenOffice, KPDF, XPDF, Firefox ...
Another user: Downloading and installing the rpms from Brother worked for me (using SuSE 10 and KDE). With the HL-2030 drivers, the text was first shifted too far up on the page; this went away after deleting the printer in YaST2 and adding it again. Works fine now, difference to first user entry: toner saving only "on" or "off", but can select from a list of different paper sizes and media types. Printing two or four pages per sheet works fine from kpdf.
Another user: On fedora core 4, with KDE. hl1250 driver worked for me, except when printing 2 pages on one sheet (margins were wrong). hl2030 driver from brother works perfectly for me.
If you want to know the page count under linux, I wrote a little perl program that works for me. (Use at your own risk.)
Another user: Also works fine (multiple pages, toner save etc) on Kubuntu 6.06 with the Debian Brother drivers. Easy installation instructions here. I first had to enable the browser-based admin for cupsys.
Note: 12 Dec 06: Brother now seem to have new .deb drivers that also support 1200 dpi resolution.
Another user: If you only get low-resolution graphics when printing PDF's (using Acrobat) try using the hl-2060/hpijs driver instead of the recommended hl1250.
Another user: With Ubuntu 7.10, the printer worked out of the box. No installation, no anything.
Another user: Works pretty well with Brother's HL-2030 drvier. The only mnior problem I have for the moment is that the margins are larger than announced.
Another user: the hl1250 has strange formating issues. the hl1240 works perfectly as far i have tested.
Discussion forum
Look for help in our forum for printers from Brother.
Miscellaneous
Printer supports PJL.Refill: Toner: Brother toner TN-2000 s/w (2.500 pages at 5%); drum unit: DR-2000
Related website
Known autodetection signatures: USB.
Drivers
The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:
Recommended driver:
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| the hl1240 works perfectly with text documents. | ||||||||
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| This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: gutenprint | ||||||||
| This driver is free software. | ||||||||
| Type: CUPS Raster | ||||||||
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| Top Quality Printer Drivers for inkjets, dye sublimation printers, and PCL lasers Supplier: Gutenprint project License: GPL (free software) | ||||||||
| User support: | Gutenprint mailing list at SourceForge (voluntary) | |||||||
| Color output Type: CUPS Raster | ||||||||
| Text: Line art: | |||||||||||||||||||| 90 |||||||||||||||||||| 90 | Graphics: Photo: | |||||||||||||||||||| 100 |||||||||||||||||||| 100 | System load: Speed: | Unknown |||||||||||||||||||| 60 | |||
| Download: | Driver packages: x86 32 bit (RPM for LSB 3.1), x86 32 bit (DEB for LSB 3.1), x86 32 bit (RPM for LSB 3.2), x86 32 bit (DEB for LSB 3.2), x86 64 bit (RPM for LSB 3.1), x86 64 bit (DEB for LSB 3.1), x86 64 bit (RPM for LSB 3.2), x86 64 bit (DEB for LSB 3.2) (How to install) | |||||||
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| For etch users: take ljet4 filter from magicfilter and change the gs invocation to "[...] sDEVICE=hl1250 [...]", then configure lprng/magicfilter as usual. this driver has heavy formating problems. This driver is free software. | ||||||||
| Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||
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| This driver is free software. | ||||||||
| Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||
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| This driver is free software. | ||||||||
| Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||
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| Built-in Ghostscript driver for PCL 5e laser printers Supplier: GPL Ghostscript License: GPL (free software) | ||||||||
| User support: | OpenPrinting forums (voluntary) | |||||||
| Max. rendering resolution: 600x600dpi Only monochrome output Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||
| Text: Line art: | |||||||||||||||||||| 90 |||||||||||||||||||| 90 | Graphics: Photo: | |||||||||||||||||||| 60 |||||||||||||||||||| 30 | System load: Speed: | Unknown |||||||||||||||||||| 90 | |||