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Overview

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Windows

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 2000/XP, Windows Vista™ and Windows Server

®

 2003 users can print using TCP/IP using the 

standard Network Printing software and IPP protocol software built into any Windows

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 2000/XP, 

Windows Vista™ and Windows Server

®

 2003 installation.

Note

• You must configure the IP address on your printer before you proceed with this chapter. If you need to 

configure the IP address, see 

Chapter 2

 first.

• Verify the host computer and print server are either on the same subnet, or that the router is properly 

configured to pass data between the two devices.

• The default password for Brother print servers is 

access

.

• This print server also supports the IPPS printing, see 

Printing documents securely using 

IPPS

on page 129.

IPP printing for Windows

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 2000/XP, Windows Vista™ and 

Windows Server

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2003

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Use the following instructions if you wish to use the IPP printing capabilities of Windows

®

2000/XP, 

Windows Vista™ and Windows Server

®

2003.

For Windows Vista™

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a

Click the 

Start

 button, 

Control Panel

, 

Hardware and Sound

, and then 

Printers

.

b

Click 

Add a printer

.

c

Select 

Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer

.

d

Click 

The printer that I want isn’t listed

.

e

Select

Select a shared printer by name

 and then enter the following in the URL field: 

http://printer_ip_address:631/ipp

 (Where 

printer_ip_address

 is the IP address or the 

print server name).

Note

If you have edited the hosts file on your computer or are using a Domain Name System, you can also enter 
the DNS name of the print server. As the print server supports TCP/IP and NetBIOS, you can also enter 
the NetBIOS name of the print server. The NetBIOS name can be seen in the printer settings page. The 
NetBIOS name assigned is the first 15 characters of the node name and by default it will appear as 
“

BRNxxxxxx

” where “

xxxxxx

” is the last six digits of the Ethernet address.

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