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Brother HL-7050
BW laser printer, max. 1200x1200 dpi, works Perfectly
Recommended driver: Postscript-Brother (Home pagecustom PPD, Driver packages for: All architectures (RPM for LSB 3.2), All architectures (DEB for LSB 3.2), How to install)
Generic instructions for: CUPSLPDLPRngPPRPDQno spooler

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Edited Notes

30 pages per minute, PCL 6, and PostScript Level 3, 32 MB (288 MB max.), one tray for 500 sheets (max A4/Legal, more trays can be added), 100-sheet multi-purpose tray, parallel, USB 2.0.

Best results are probably obtained when the printer is used in PostScript mode with a PPD file from the printer's driver CD.

You can also get an RPM with the PPD file from Brother.

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:

Postscript-Brother  (driver home page)
  Manufacturer-supplied PPD files for Brother's PostScript printers
Supplier: Brother (this printer's manufacturer)
License: GPL 2+ (free software)
 
  Color output  Type: PostScript  
  Text: 
Line art: 
||||||||||||||||||||  100 
||||||||||||||||||||  100 
 Graphics: 
 Photo: 
||||||||||||||||||||  100 
||||||||||||||||||||  100 
 System load: 
 Speed: 
Unknown
Unknown
 
  Download:  Driver packages: All architectures (RPM for LSB 3.2), All architectures (DEB for LSB 3.2) (How to install)
PPD file: Custom 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)
 

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  

Postscript  (driver home page)
  This driver is free software.  
  Type: PostScript  
  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