Driver for Brother Brother HL-5040 - downloading and installing it

Brother HL-5040 is a Printer device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Brother. The hardware id of this driver is Brother_HL-5040; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Brother Brother HL-5040 driver manually

1. Download the driver setup file for Brother Brother HL-5040 driver from the location below. This download link is for the driver version 6.1.7233.0 dated 2006-06-21.
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3. Run the driver installation file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which should be quite straightforward. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Restart your PC and enjoy the updated driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver is not digitally signed.

This driver was rated with an average of 3.3 stars by 78383 users.

2. How to install Brother Brother HL-5040 driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Brother Brother HL-5040 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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