Brother
HL-1240
600
600
Toner ($50)
http://www.brother.com/us-printer/info/hl1240/br_1240us.html
us-ascii
PCL4,PJL
Brother
HL-1240 series
B
hl1250
In contrary to some of the user's comments below, this printer works
well with the "hl1250" driver, a driver based on "ljet4" but preceeding
the job with Brother-specific PJL commands, especially the one to set
the resolution as shown below.<p>
Brother provides a <a
href="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/">driver</a>,
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" (600 dpi)
give a better grayscale quality and all special features of the
printer are accessible by PJL commands.<p>
Old comments from users:<p>
Roger (rogern at linuxfreemail dot com) reports that the
"hl1250" driver works, but with incorrect
margins.<p>
Works great using the HP LaserJet 4/5/6 ("ljet4") driver and
Ghostscript.<br>
600dpi not supported via PCL alone, you must preface jobs with a
PJL statement:<p>
The easiest way to do this is by adding the following line to your
printcap file:<p>
<tt>
:ld=\033%-12345X@PJL\r\n@PJL SET RESOLUTION=600\r\n:<p>
</tt>
Otherwise, just send the following string to the printer befor you send
the output of GhostScript:<p>
<tt>
<ESC>%-12345X@PJL SET RESOLUTION=600<p>
</tt>
as well as selecting 600 dpi from the GhostScript command line.<p>
This printer has 2MB memory, which cannot be extended; this may
not be enough for all jobs at 600dpi. Until someone says
otherwise, I want this printer to be marked imperfect because of
this memory issue.<p>
The above steps may not work if you have RedHat 6.0 or previous
versions. I was able to get the printer working with an HP
LaserJet driver and 300 dpi. 600dpi did not work well at
all.<p>
There's a <a
href="http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/brother-list/2000q4/000040.html"
>discussion</a> around the special driver for this
printer; apparently it's got a bug of some sort. I guess the
other drivers still work, but it's all a bit unclear right
now.<p>