windows 98 with New Brother HL-4070 CDW

fatapples@gmail.com

I have a dual boot win98/ win2k PC and I bought a new Brother Color
Laser HL 4070cdw. I mostly print from win 2k but I have one old dos
dased program that I need to print from occasionally. There is no
driver from Brother for Windows 98. I tried setting it up as "generic"
printer except I don't have my win98 disk any more to install the
generic driver. Is there an answer to this? Windows 98 won't even read
the files on the CD that comes with the printer. Any ideas?

Balgert

On Jan 29, 5:51*pm, wrote:
> I have a dual boot win98/ win2k PC and I bought a new Brother Color
> Laser HL 4070cdw. I mostly print from win 2k but I have one old dos
> dased program that I need to print from occasionally. There is no
> driver from Brother for Windows 98. I tried setting it up as "generic"
> printer except I don't have my win98 disk any more to install the
> generic driver. Is there an answer to this? Windows 98 won't even read
> the files on the CD that comes with the printer. Any ideas?

Try a Windows Postscript driver and put your printer in postscript
emulation mode (see BR-Script 3 Mode in your reference material for
your machine).

Or try downloading Windows 98 drivers for the HL-4000CN (it is a 4000
series printer -- it might work). Download at:

fatapples@gmail.com

On Jan 29, 6:04 pm, Balgert <> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 5:51 pm, wrote:
>
> > I have a dual boot win98/ win2k PC and I bought a new Brother Color
> > Laser HL 4070cdw. I mostly print from win 2k but I have one old dos
> > dased program that I need to print from occasionally. There is no
> > driver from Brother for Windows 98. I tried setting it up as "generic"
> > printer except I don't have my win98 disk any more to install the
> > generic driver. Is there an answer to this? Windows 98 won't even read
> > the files on the CD that comes with the printer. Any ideas?
>
> Try a Windows Postscript driver and put your printer in postscript
> emulation mode (see BR-Script 3 Mode in your reference material for
> your machine).
>
> Or try downloading Windows 98 drivers for the HL-4000CN (it is a 4000
> series printer -- it might work). Download at:
>
>

I downloaded the HL-4000CN from brother's website and it worked
perfectly. I took all of 10 minutes to do; and it works perfectly. It
looks like that driver works with WIn95/98/Me and older version of Mac
OS (MacOS 8.6-9.2).
Thank You!