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Black & White laser printer, max. 2400x600 dpi, works Perfectly | |||||||||||||||
Recommended Driver: hl1250 (Home page, View PPD, directly download PPD) | |||||||||||||||
Generic Instructions: CUPS, no spooler | |||||||||||||||
Miscellaneous
Printer supports PJL.
Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.
Comments
21 pages per minute, PCL 5e and PCL 6, 8 MB (136 MB max.), one tray for 250 sheets (max A4/Legal, a second tray can be added), parallel, USB 2.0.
Highest resolution with "pxlmono" (PCL 6) seems to be 1200x1200 dpi, but complicated graphics (especially with bitmaps) is very slow, full-page bitmaps in 1200 dpi can even make the printer hang, usual documents (as e-mail from Mozilla) come out quickly.
"hl1250", the PCL-5e driver prints up to 1200x600 dpi. Much faster on bitmap graphics. In general, very fast with all documents.
Brother provides a driver, too, but binary-only and only for LPD/LPRng. According to the printout quality it is based on the "ljet4" Ghostscript driver. "pxlmono", "gimp-print" (600 dpi), and "hpijs-pcl5e" (600 dpi) give a better grayscale quality and all special features of the printer are accessible by PJL commands.
There is no manual in the box, you find it as PDF file on the CD with the Windows/Mac drivers.
Consumables/Refills: Separate Toner and Drum
Drivers
The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:
Recommended driver:
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This driver is free software. | ||||||||||||||||
Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||||||||||
Download: | PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD | |||||||||||||||
Other drivers:
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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: | |||||||||| 90 | Graphics: | |||||||||| 100 | System Load: | Unknown | |||||||||||
Line Art: | |||||||||| 90 | Photo: | |||||||||| 100 | Speed: | |||||||||| 60 | |||||||||||
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HP's HPIJS driver - PPDs for compatible PCL-5e-based non-HP laser printers
Supplier: Hewlett-Packard License: BSD (free software) | ||||||||||||||||
User support: | HPLIP support and bug tracking system (voluntary) | |||||||||||||||
Max. rendering resolution: 600x600dpi Only monochrome output Type: IJS | ||||||||||||||||
Text: | |||||||||| 100 | Graphics: | |||||||||| 100 | System Load: | Unknown | |||||||||||
Line Art: | |||||||||| 100 | Photo: | |||||||||| 100 | Speed: | |||||||||| 70 | |||||||||||
Download: | PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD | |||||||||||||||
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This driver is free software. | ||||||||||||||||
Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||||||||||
Download: | PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD | |||||||||||||||
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This driver is free software. | ||||||||||||||||
Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||||||||||
Download: | PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD | |||||||||||||||
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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: | |||||||||| 90 | Graphics: | |||||||||| 60 | System Load: | Unknown | |||||||||||
Line Art: | |||||||||| 90 | Photo: | |||||||||| 30 | Speed: | |||||||||| 90 | |||||||||||
Download: | PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD | |||||||||||||||
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This driver is free software. | ||||||||||||||||
Type: Ghostscript built-in | ||||||||||||||||
Download: | PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD | |||||||||||||||