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Brother HL-5250DN Network User's Guide

Table of Contents

Configuring your network printer
Troubleshooting
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Network printing from Windows

®

: basic TCP/IP Peer-to-Peer printing

3 - 2

3

7

Click 

Next

.

8

The 

Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port

 

Wizard

 will now appear. Click 

Next

.

9

Enter the IP address, or the print server name you wish to configure. The Wizard will automatically enter 
the Port name information for you.

10

Click 

Next

.

11

Windows

®

 2000/XP will now contact the printer that you specified. If you did not specify the correct IP 

address or name then you will receive an error message.

12

Click the 

Finish

 button to complete the Wizard.

13

Now that you have configured the port, you must specify which printer driver you wish to use. Select the 
appropriate driver from the list of supported printers. If you are using a driver supplied with the printer on 
CD-ROM then select the 

Have Disk

 option to browse to the CD-ROM. 

14

For example, select the “X:\Driver\PCL\WIN2K_XP\your language” folder (where X is your drive letter). 
Click 

Open

, and then 

OK

. Select your printer model, then click 

Next

.

15

Specify a name and click the 

Next

 button.

16

Now specify if you wish to share the printer, enter the share name and click 

Next

.

17

Continue through the Wizard clicking the 

Finish

 button when complete.

Printer driver already installed

If you have already installed the printer driver and wish to configure it for network printing, follow these steps:

1

Select the printer driver you wish to configure.

2

Select 

File

 and then 

Properties

.

3

Click the 

Ports

 tab of the driver and click 

Add Port

.

4

Select the port that you wish to use. Typically this would be 

Standard TCP/IP Port

. Then click the 

New 

Port...

 button.

5

The 

Standard TCP/IP Port Wizard

 will start. Follow steps 8 to 12 of 

Printer driver not yet installed

 on 

page 3-1.

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