Brother HL-1030 printer driver for Windows 7

[wonderdollar]

Hi,

Please guide me how I can get a driver for my brother printer HL -1030 for Windows 7. I called Brother office in Canada and they say this printer is not compatible with Windows 7. Is there any other printer driver I can download and get my printer working.

Thanks in advance.

Wonderdollar

 

[not so gray matter]

You should be able to use the XP drivers and install them in compatibilty mode.

Here's a link to the XP Home/Pro 32-Bit Drivers
Brother Solutions Center: HL-1030: Downloads: Others

To run the installer in compatibility mode:

Right Click Installer > Properties > Compatibility > Select the OS you want. (In this case, XP)

 

[pebbly]

the only driver i could find is for XP Brother Solutions Center: HL-1030: Downloads: United Kingdom you will have to install in compatibility mode http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html hope that helps

 

[wonderdollar]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

However, I could not make it work. Am I missing some thing as it says it is not compatible, even though I changed the version to XP in compatibility mode.

Can I find some detailed instructions as to how to go about it.

Thanks in advance

 

[pebbly]

did you run it as administrator ?

 

[wonderdollar]

Yes. I did run as an administrator as this is my home PC and has only one user, admin.

Still no luck.

 

[pebbly]

when you right click on the setup.exe file>properties> compatibility> tick run as xp> tick run as admin >apply and ok> exit , right click again on the setup file and select run as administrator , did you do it that way

 

[wonderdollar]

Yes. But it still did not work. I chose Win xP SERVICE PACK 3 and tick the run as administrator, apply and save and then unzipped the file again, rewrite all the files and tried but of no use. May be I am missing some critical step here.

Thanks for your support.

 

[pebbly]

don't quite follow you when you say then unzipped the file again ? could you explain please

 

[wonderdollar]

The downloaded file was a zip file which had to be unzipped (extracted) in order to use it. However, in the meantime, I went on to windows update and downloaded driver for printer number HL -1250 and my printer HL-1030 seems to be working now using the driver of HL-1250.

Thanks once again for all your time and efforts.

 

[pebbly]

good i'm glad you got it sorted , thank you for letting us know how you solved the problem

 

[wonderdollar]

I changed the printer driver to HL-1435 instead of HL-1250 and now it is working perfectly for my printer HL-1030 which was not compatible with Windows 7.

 

[beaulieu]

I have a Brother HL-1030 connected to my Linux server. I could not access it from my Windows 7 laptop because the driver is not signed. So, I use the HL-2150N driver instead. It works fine for me.

Mario.

 

[stlauc]

Not working on OSX 10.5/Bootcamp 3.1.0

I've tried the 1250 and 1435 drivers; neither worked. I initially got "Print - Error" statuses on the spooled docs; now I don't even have a status in the spooled docs, but there's a "Printer Error" status on the printer on the overview page.

I've uninstalled & reinstalled the printer; it does not seem to fully uninstall because I can't reuse the name. And the system is incredibly slow, like the printer is getting constantly pinged without success.

Would love to get this working. I have to port docs to the 10.4 Mac to print; it works better!

 

[stlauc]

"Out of paper" error

I tried installing the printer again on Win7 32bit, a fresh install. After searching for "More drivers" in the Windows install printer dialog box, I tried HL-1040, HL-1430 and HL-1435 drivers (which work for others). Windows says the printer has an "out of paper" error and the printer does not. I tried turning it off & on, doing the soft reset... no luck. Right now my Mac prints on it better! Any ideas?

 

[stlauc]

It works! Had to change LPT1 to USB0002! Yeah! Used HL-1435 driver.