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Intermec EasyLAN 100i – User's Manual Ed. 1
Chapter 5 Setting Up – Windows
TCP/IP (LPR)
To be able to print using LPR, you must have installed the EasyLAN
100i in the TCP/IP environment as described in
Chapter 3 “Basic
Installation; Assigning an IP address”
.
1. Open the Print Manager and select Create Printer from the
Printer menu.
2. Enter an appropriate name in the Printer Name field.
3. Choose an appropriate printer driver for your printer from the
drop-down Driver list. If the desired printer driver already ap-
pears in the displayed Manufacturers and Printer Models list
dialog, proceed directly to step 6. It is only necessary to per-
form steps 4–5 if your printer does not appear in the model list.
Note: If you are not certain that the desired printer driver avail-
able in the Manufacturers and Printer Models list is the latest
version, you are advised to use the printer driver provided on
the CD delivered with the EasyLAN 100i.
4. Click the Have Disk... button. Insert the CD that was provided
with your printer, select the CD drive and click OK.
5. Select a printer driver (see note) and click Next>.
6. Select Other... from the “Print to” drop-down list.
7. Select AXIS Port from the list of available Print Monitors in
the Print Destination dialog. Click OK.
8. Select LPR (TCP/IP) as your choice of network protocol and
click OK.
9. From the Add LPR port dialog, enter the IP address or host name
of your print server and define the logical printer name as PR1.
Click OK to return to the Create Printer dialog.
10. Select the AXIS LPR port you wish to use from the “Print to”
drop-down list. The ports appear as <port name>@<IP address>
or <port name>@<host name>, e.g. [email protected].
11. Click the Settings button. Choose whether error condition pop-
up messages are to be displayed by checking the box in the
Configure AXIS LPR Ports dialog. Define the frequency at which
the error messages should be displayed after retry. Click OK to
return to the Create Printer dialog.
12. Having selected and configured the chosen port, click Next>.
13. Select whether you want to share the printer with other network
users. Click OK.
Windows NT,
cont'd.
Note:
Presently, the Intermec Inter-
Driver does not support Win-
dows NT 3.5x, but a generic
printer driver could be used.
