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New Brother laser printer - LaserJet driver
I picked up a Brother HL-1440 laser printer as it has drivers for my new Mac as well as OS/2. The OS/2 driver is the LaserJet driver, supplied by IBM.

The OS/2 driver prints at 300 dpi while the Mac does 600 dpi. The printer comes with 2MB default and you need more for 600 dpi, so I'd added 16MB to it. Even with the added memory, OS/2 doesn't give an option for 600 dpi.

I found out that I could get 600 dpi by selecting a different printer(Brother HL-7050). While this works, it will abort the print job if I send too much data to the printer. I suspect it's partyly because the 7050 comes with 32MB.

Is there a way to tell the driver that the HL-1440 now has 18MB and thus can handle 600 dpi?
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New What you should be able to do
is to open the printer's properties notebook, go to the printer driver page, and right click on one the printer driver (ie- NOT Job Properties, but the driver itself in its little windowpane) and tell it how much memory is in the printer on the Setup page. The option is in KB, so don't put in 16:).
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New didn't help :-(
driver was set to 512KB, I upped it to 18432 KB. 300 dpi is still the max it gives me. i tried a reboot "just in case".

interestingly enough, the HL-7050 driver is set for 16384 KB, so it's not a memory issue. I just checked and the HL-7050 is PCL-6 while my HL-1440 supports PCL-4. I'll have to check out what version of PCL the other printers supported by the LaserJet driver are at as well as base memory they come with.

Thanx for the info though, never knew that was there!
Darrell Spice, Jr.                      [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
     Brother laser printer - LaserJet driver - (SpiceWare) - (2)
         What you should be able to do - (jake123) - (1)
             didn't help :-( - (SpiceWare)

Oh good, just go the wrong way why don't you!
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