Brother Printer Driver Installation & Configuration

Configure the Printer

Once the printer is installed on the server, we need to change the default paper size.

1. In the Printer control panel, r-click on the printer and select Printing Properties.
2. Go to the Advanced tab, and click the Printing Defaults button.
3. Set "Paper Size" to:
   • Small Address Label for the standard DK-1209 (orientation: Landscape)
   • Return Address Label for the tiny (0.66x2.1) labels (orientation: Landscape)
   • 2.4" for continuous rolls. Additionally for continuous rolls, set length to 1.10 and orientation to Portrait. Note: Unlike the other sizes, the preview diagram in the corner will look wrong. But it is labeled correctly.
   • 2.4" for Work Order Testing Tags. Additionally for Testing Tags, set length to 0.5 and orientation to Portrait. These have report.type "Work Order Testing Tags" instead of "Work Order Tags" and have a separate field for print quantity override. They are for wrapping around the circumference surface of a petri dish.
4. Change the "Quality" to "Give priority to print quality 300 x 300 dpi" (it starts out as giving priority to print speed)
5. New addition as of 3/4/20: in the Advanced tab, select "Halftone: For logo and text Binary" to solve an issue of some barcodes looking okay but not scanning
6. Click OK to save changes. (I like to reopen the print preferences window to ensure my changes saved)