Brother International MFC-820CW Network Users Manual - English - Page 58

Associating to the printer, Adding a second Brother LPR port, Add Printer Wizard - driver windows 7

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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 5 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. 5 - 4

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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.