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5

10

Click 

OK

. When prompted you must re-boot your computer.

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 the 

Start

 button, select 

Settings

 and then 

Printers

.

2

Double click the 

Add Printer

 icon to get the 

Add Printer Wizard

.

3

Click 

Next

 when you get the 

Add Printer Wizard

 window.

4

Select

 Local Printer 

when you are asked how the printers are connected to your computer, and then 

click 

Next

.

5

Select the desired printer model. If the correct model is not displayed, click the 

Have Disk

 option and 

insert the CD-ROM supplied with your machine.

6

If you have selected a printer driver that is already being used, you have the option of either keeping the 
existing driver (recommended) or replacing it. Select the desired option and click 

Next

.

7

Select the Brother LPR port (the port name you assigned in step 6 of the 

Installing the Brother 

Peer-to-Peer software

 on page 5-3) and click 

Next

.

8

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

Yes

 or 

No

 if you want this driver to be default printer, and then click 

Next

.

9

Windows

®

 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, go to the 

Start

 button, select 

Settings

, and open the 

Printers

 window. Click the icon of the printer that you wish to configure, select 

File

 

from the menu bar, and then 

Properties

. Click the 

Details

 tab and then 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 

OK

. 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.

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  • 1. 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.

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