Adding a Second Brother LPR Port; Other Sources of Information; Add Port- Page 38

PEER TO PEER PRINTING 3 - 5

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.

2

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

chapter 11

 of this User’s Guide .