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From: Alan on 20 Feb 2010 04:24
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:14:15 +0000, Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk>
wrote:

>Don Phillipson wrote:
>
>> "Alan Secker" <alan(a)asandco.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:qYydnTXtU9dwPs3WnZ2dnUVZ7sZi4p2d(a)pipex.net...
>>
>>> The HL-2150N is not supported for pre-XP versions of Windows but someone
>>> somewhere may be able to wink and nod and say: ' Try ....'. If he's
>> reading
>>> this I would be very grateful for any suggestions.
>>
>>
>http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/eu/gb/en/monolaserpri/hl2150n_all/spec/index.html
>> says this unit uses the PCL driver for Win2000Pro.
>> Brother has a variety of PCL drivers for earlier network
>> printers e.g. HL 2070N so one of these might work OK.
>> Brother manuals mention a generic PCL driver for
>> WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP and there may be
>> earlier (Win98) versions.
>
>I used an HP Laserjet II driver this morning and my secretary is a happy
>bunny. Thanks to all who replied.
>
>Alan

You can do better than that.
(Hope this is still relevant a few weeks later...)


The specs of the printer say:
http://www.brother.com.au/products/Printers/Monochrome_Laser_Printers/HL-2150N.aspx
Emulation PCL
Resident Fonts PCL: 49 scalable fonts, 12 bitmap fonts, 11 bar codes
Standard Memory 16MB
Printer Resolution HQ1200 dpi

and the manual says it supports PCL6

The LaserJet II is a 300 dpi printer, and it runs PCL4, which is a
basically bitmaps only.

So anything you print using that driver will be converted to a 300 dpi
bitmap and sent to the printer.

I don't know of a PCL6 driver for Win98, but you can use a PCL5 driver
(say the LaserJet IV), this will allow you to use 600 dpi graphics and
also scaleable fonts (standard fonts like Courier and Times are built
in, so they don't need to be sent the printer) which will be printed
at full resolution.

I don't know if you can get 1200dpi (the "HQ" mode) this way, but you
will get sharper, and probably faster, printing using a PCL5 driver.

(You can also set the PCL5 driver to 300 dpi and see if there is a
speed difference, for text I doubt there will be.)

Also amongst the printer settings in Windows there should be a setting
for printer memory/RAM. If so, set this to say 12 MB (though your
printer has 16MB, it may have reserved some for its own use, and 12 is
plenty). Then Windows will be able to print more efficiently as it
will not slow down output to match the much smaller memory of an LJII
(I think 1/2 MB was standard, 4 MB was a very expensive upgrade).

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