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  1. Posts : 2
    windows 7
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    Win 7 driver needed for brother hl-1230 printer


    Brother UK tell me they have no plans for providing a driver for this printer, which runs under XP, which means I am going to have to junk it and also a HP Scanjet 4370. Any solutions? There must be millions of such devices heading for the junkyard simply because of the success of Win 7
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  2. Posts : 5,941
    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
       #2

    Hi there
    Don't junk your printer
    Run a Virtual XP machine --your printer will still work.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  3. Posts : 2
    windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    jimbo45 said:
    Hi there
    Don't junk your printer
    Run a Virtual XP machine --your printer will still work.

    Cheers
    jimbo

    Tks Jimbo, but I'm no expert on Windows. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium and was using the "lowest" (ie home version) of XP, so how do I set up a virtual XP machine?

    Tks

    Knockvale
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    Linux: Slackware64 13
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    I have set up a Brother HL-1230 on Windows 7 successfully.

    Download the vista drivers from the Brother website. Unzip them and when you come to install the printer browse to where you have unzipped the drivers
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  5. Posts : 4,466
    Windows 10 Education 64 bit
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    The vista drivers didn't work for me. I was getting lots of blank pages and pages with one line of text on them. I'm printing through the USB port on my D-Link router though so it could be a Shareport problem. It prints fine from an XP PC through Shareport though? I haven't tried printing directly from my PC with windows 7 so I would be interested in knowing if the vista drivers work for you.
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    Linux: Slackware64 13
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    I had set up the printer for someone else. Their PC does not have a parallel port so I had to use a USB-centronics cable. The test page printed out fine and we then printed out a document which was fine and I have not heard that they have had any problems.
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  7. Posts : 1,402
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    knockvale said:
    Brother UK tell me they have no plans for providing a driver for this printer, which runs under XP, which means I am going to have to junk it and also a HP Scanjet 4370. Any solutions? There must be millions of such devices heading for the junkyard simply because of the success of Win 7
    Go to this page scroll down to the bottom of the page and find your printer and use the Vista driver

    Windows Vista Support for Brother Printer/MFC/FAX/DCP
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  8. Posts : 4,466
    Windows 10 Education 64 bit
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    arubin said:
    I had set up the printer for someone else. Their PC does not have a parallel port so I had to use a USB-centronics cable. The test page printed out fine and we then printed out a document which was fine and I have not heard that they have had any problems.
    OK, thanks for the feedback. I think my problem is with D-Links Shareport app. This printer gets used 90% of the time by my daughter for school work. Her main PC still has XP on it so she has no problem printing from there. She has a netbook with 7 on it but I told her not to print from that. It would have been nice but its not the end of the world that she can't print from the netbook. I was given the printer and will likely just replace it when it runs out of toner. The new printer will be network friendly so I don't have to use Shareport.
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  9. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 64
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    arubin said:
    I have set up a Brother HL-1230 on Windows 7 successfully.
    arubin said:

    Download the vista drivers from the Brother website. Unzip them and when you come to install the printer browse to where you have unzipped the drivers
    Hi. I'm no expert. I have a new PC with Windows 7 (64). I purchased a parallel cable to usb adapter. My PC can see my printer and refers to it as an unspecified device (IEEE-1284 Controller).

    I went to the Brother site and downloaded the HL-1230 driver (Vista 64 version) as suggested. I can see the zipped folder in my downloads folder. When I unzip it, they go to : C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp

    When I attempt to "follow this path", I can't find it.

    I then unzippefd the folder to my desktop. However, none of the files appear to download a driver when I double-click on them.

    Please help, I'm getting extremely frustrated. Sorry if I sound like a right amateur.

    Spam
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  10. Posts : 4,466
    Windows 10 Education 64 bit
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    There is no executable file but if you use the search for driver option and browse to the correct folder it should install.
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