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Brother HL-5040
BW laser printer, max. 2400x600 dpi, works Perfectly
Recommended driver: hl1250 (Home pageview PPDdownload PPD)
Generic instructions for: CUPSLPDLPRngPPRPDQno spooler

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Edited Notes

16 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

User Notes

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Discussion forum

Look for help in our forum for printers from Brother.

Miscellaneous

Printer supports PJL.
Printer supports direct text printing with the `us-ascii' charset.
Known autodetection signatures: Parallel Port or USB.

Drivers

The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:

Recommended driver:

hl1250  (driver home page)
  This driver is free software.  
  Type: Ghostscript built-in  
  Download:  PPD file: View PPDdirectly download PPD  

Other drivers:

gutenprint  (driver home page)
  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)
 

hpijs-pcl5e  (driver home page)
  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: 
Line art: 
||||||||||||||||||||  100 
||||||||||||||||||||  100 
 Graphics: 
 Photo: 
||||||||||||||||||||  100 
||||||||||||||||||||  100 
 System load: 
 Speed: 
Unknown
||||||||||||||||||||  70
 
  Download:  PPD file: View PPDdirectly download PPD  

lj4dith  (driver home page)
  300 or 600dpi PCL driver.
This driver is free software.
 
  Type: Ghostscript built-in  
  Download:  PPD file: View PPDdirectly download PPD  

lj5gray  (driver home page)
  This driver is free software.  
  Type: Ghostscript built-in  
  Download:  PPD file: View PPDdirectly download PPD  

lj5mono  (driver home page)
  This driver is free software.  
  Type: Ghostscript built-in  

ljet4  (driver home page)
  Built-in Ghostscript driver for PCL 5e laser printers
300 or 600dpi PCL driver.
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
 
  Download:  PPD file: View PPDdirectly download PPD  

pxlmono  (driver home page)
  This driver is free software.  
  Type: Ghostscript built-in  
  Download:  PPD file: View PPDdirectly download PPD