5 - 4
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
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.