Adding a Second Brother LPR Port; Other Sources of Information; Add Port- Page 49

4 - 7 NETWORK PRINTING FROM WINDOWS

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(Peer to Peer)

NC9100h_FM6.0

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Select the Brother LPR port (the port name you assigned in step 
6 of the “Installing the Brother Peer to Peer Software” on page 4-
5) and press Next.

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Enter any desired name for the Brother printer and press Next. 
For example, you could call the printer “Networked Brother 
Printer”.

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Windows

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 will now ask you if you wish to print out a test page, 

select Yes and then select Finish.

You have now finished installing the Peer to Peer Print (LPR) software.

Adding a Second Brother LPR Port

You do not 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 Details tab and push the Add Port button. 
In the Add Port dialog, select the Other radio button and then 
highlight Brother LPR port. Click OK 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 Properties dialog. 

Enter the IP address of the printer that you wish to print to and click 
OK. You should now see the port that you have just created in the 
Print to the following port setting of the printer driver.

Other Sources of Information

1

Visit http://solutions.brother.com/ for more information on 
network printing and for documents on the IPP protocol and how 
to configure a Windows

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 98/Me/2000/XP System.

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Refer to chapter 2 of this user guide to learn how to configure 
the IP address of the machine.