Brother’s PostScript installer for 10.2 doesn’t want to work with Panther for some odd reason, but that’s not a problem – we can actually get the old drivers to work!

First, snag the MacOS 9 PPD Installer, then execute the installer under Classic.

Copy the files which you need across to the proper area. For me, this was the English (letter sized) PPD. The directory specified is for the ‘en’, or english support. As MacOS 10.x uses gzipped PPDs, we gzip it, then finally fix the permissions.

%cp ”/Volumes/Classic/PPDs/ENGLISH/Brother HL-1270N” /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ %cd /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj %gzip -9 “Brother HL-1270N” %chmod 664 “Brother HL-1270N.gz” %chown root:admin “Brother HL-1270N.gz”

Launch “Print Center”, then configure your printer with the fresh and new offered driver!