Windows NT®4.0 Printing Adding a Second Brother LPR Port; Other Sources of Information; 4.0 Printing- Page 33

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Windows NT

®

4.0 Printing

Adding a Second Brother LPR Port

You do not need to 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 

Ports

 tab and push the 

Add Port

 button. In 

the 

Printer Ports

 dialog, highlight 

Brother LPR Port

. Click the 

New 

Port

 button 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 Settings

 dialog.

Enter the IP address of the printer that you wish to print to and click 

OK

. And then click 

Close

 in the 

Printer Ports

 dialog. You should 

now see the port that you have just created in the 

Print to the 

following port(s)

 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

®

 2000/XP/95/98/Me/XP System.

2

To learn how to configure the IP address on your machine, see 

Chapter 11

 of this User’s Guide.