10 ppm. Excellent quality printing at 600x600 DPI. 1200x600dpi not available without proprietary driver. Excellent paper handling, fast printing from Linux/Ghostscript. USB interface included. Expandable to 36MB with conventional 72-pin DRAM.

Brother publishes proprietary Linux drivers for CUPS and LPD for most of their laser printers and multi-function devices, including SANE drivers for the scanners. They can be downloaded free of charge on their Linux driver page.

Consumables/Refills: Drum: $160/15,000 page. Toner: $29/2,400 pages

User Notes

An uncommonly cross-platform compatible printer - like
the HL-1070 but with only one paper input bin (the 1070
has two). The fast RISC processor is easily expandible with
72 pin SIMM memory (from 4 to 32 Mb) but unless you use big
graphics at top resolution the internal 4 Mb will probably
be enough.

This printer has automatic HP-PCL and Epson ESC-P sensing,
so it works with many PCL and Epson drivers, selecting
the right emulation on the base of the first control
codes it gets.

It also automatically services parallel and USB ports by
initially signing on as a USB printer and then sending
a 'disconnect' message to the USB host if the parallel
input port becomes active, printing that data then
'reconnecting' to the USB host after that job ends.

This means it shares well between old and new computers
with Centronics and USB printer interfaces respectively,
without need of a switch box.

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