CHAPTER 2 TCP/IP PRINTING
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Windows NT 4.0 Printing
(Associating to the Printer)
You must now create a printer on your Windows
®
system using the standard
Windows
®
printer setup procedure.
1. To do this, go to the Start button, select Settings and then Printers.
2. Double click the Add Printer icon to get the Add Printer Wizard.
3. Select My Computer (not Network Printer) and click on Next.
4. Select the Brother LPR Port (the port name you assigned in step 6 of the
“Installing Brother Peer to Peer Software” section in this chapter) and click on
Next.
5. Select the desired printer model. If the correct model is not displayed, click on
the Have Disk option and insert the CD-ROM supplied with your printer.
6. If the driver already exists, select Keep Existing Driver (if it does not exist, this
step will be skipped), and the click on Next.
7. If desired, change the name of the printer then click Next.
8. If desired, make the printer shared (so other user can access it), and select the
operating system(s) that these other computers will be running. Click on Next.
9. Select Yes when you asked Would you like to print a test page?. Click on
Finish to complete the installation. You may now print to the printer as if it
were a local printer.
Windows NT 4.0 Printing
Adding a Second Brother LPR Port
You do not need to re-run the install program to add a new Brother LPR port. Instead,
press the Start button, select Settings, and open the Printers window. Click on the
icon of the printer that you wish to configure, select File from the menu bar, and then
choose Properties. Click on the Port tab and push the Add Port button. In the Printer
Ports dialog, highlight Brother LPR Port. Click the New Port button and enter the
port name. The default port name is BLP1. If you have already used this name, you
will get an error message if you try to use it again, in which case use BLP2, etc…
Once you have specified the port name, click the OK button. You will then see the
Port Settings dialog.
Enter the IP address of the printer that you wish to print to and lick OK. And then
click Close in the Printer Ports dialog. You should now see the port that you have
just created in the Print to the following port(s) setting of the printer driver.
