User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide HL-5470DW/HL-5470DWT/HL-6180DW/HL-6180DWT
- User's Guides and where to find them?
- Using the documentation
- Table of Contents
- 1 Printing Methods
- 2 Driver and Software
- Printer driver
- Windows®
- Macintosh
- Software
- 3 General Information
- 4 Options
- 5 Routine Maintenance
- 6 Troubleshooting
- A Appendix
- Index
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Printer driver 2
A printer driver is software that translates data from the format used by a computer to the format that a
particular printer needs. Typically, this format is page description language (PDL).
The printer drivers for the supported versions of Windows
®
and Macintosh are on the CD-ROM we have
supplied or on the Brother Solutions Center Web site at http://solutions.brother.com/
. Install the drivers by
following the steps in the Quick Setup Guide. The latest printer drivers can be downloaded from the Brother
Solutions Center Web site at:
http://solutions.brother.com/
For Windows
®
2
Windows
®
printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product)
BR-Script printer driver (PostScript
®
3™ language emulation)
1
1
Install the driver using the Custom Install from the CD-ROM.
For Macintosh 2
Macintosh printer driver (the most suitable printer driver for this product)
BR-Script printer driver (PostScript
®
3™ language emulation)
1
1
For the installation instruction of the driver, visit us at http://solutions.brother.com/.
For Linux
®12
2
LPR printer driver
CUPS printer driver
1
For more information and to download the printer driver for Linux please visit your model page at http://solutions.brother.com/ or use the link on
the CD-ROM we have supplied.
2
Depending on Linux distributions, the driver may not be available or it may be released after the initial release of your model.
Driver and Software 2