David,
Did you by chance run across these directions at Brother's website yet?
http://www.brother-usa.com/lp/windows7compatibility.aspx#WinUpdate
There are step by step instructions at the bottom.
Derek
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:54 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My wife's new machine is running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home
> Premium. She does NOT want it connected to the Internet, but she WOULD
> like to use her Brother HL-630 laser printer with it.
> (The "30" just encodes how much buffer RAM is in the printer; the same
> driver should work with any "HL-6" model.)
>
> First of all, I bought a USB-to-Parallel cable which takes care of the
> physical connection.
>
> Google finds for me the information that no driver for this printer is
> included with Windows 7, but Brother says it can be downloaded via
> Windows Update. That's difficult to access without connecting to the
> Internet....
>
> BUT when I point my 32-bit Win 7 Ultimate system at Windows update,
> "HL-6" is not amongst the Brother models listed. It *might* just be
> that it is only showing me 32-bit drivers, so I'm not yet certain that
> the driver I need doesn't exist.
>
> So my request, to someone running 64-bit Win7 connected to the
> Internet, is (a) to determine if an HL-6 driver is in fact available
> from Windows Update, and (b) if it is, to try and capture it and send it
> to me.
>
> I'm willing to experiment with a 32-bit driver if one surfaces, up to
> and including, if necessary, backing her off to the 32-bit version of
> Win7 Home Premium. Or a version that works on OSX 10.4 (Tiger),
> although It would be nicer to print directly from Win7....
>
> (Or maybe someone will come up with an alternative that I'm just not
> seeing...
>
> David Gillett
>
>
>
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