Brother HL-1870N User Guide

CHAPTER 2 TCP/IP PRINTING 

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1.  Go to the Start button, choose Settings, and then select Printers. Double 

click the Add Printer icon to get the Add Printer Wizard. Click. Select 
My Computer (Not Network Printer) and click on Next. 

2.  Select Add Port, select LPR Port (LPR Port will not be displayed unless 

you install the "Microsoft TCP/IP Printing" protocol as described 
earlier) from the list of available ports and click on New Port. 

3.  Type in the IP address that you wish to assign to the print server in the 

Name or address of server providing lpd: box. If you have edited your 
HOSTS file are using Domain Name System, enter the name associated 
with the print server, instead of an IP address. As the print server 
supports TCP/IP and NetBIOS names, you can also enter the NetBIOS 
name of the print server. The NetBIOS name can be seen in your printer 
configuration page. From default the NetBIOS name will usually appear 
as "BRN_xxxxxx" where xxxxxx is the last six digits of the Ethernet 
address. 

4.  Type in the print server service name in the Name of printer or print 

queue on that server: box. If you do not know which service name to use, 
enter BINARY_P1 and then click on OK: 

 

 

 
Note 
Refer to 

 for more information on Service Names. 

 
5.  Click on Close. The new print server IP address should be listed and 

highlighted as an available port. Click on Next.   

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

click on the "Have Disk" option and insert the CD-ROM supplied with 
your printer. 

7.  If the driver already exists, select Keep Existing Driver (if it does not, 

this step will be skipped), and then click on Next. 

8.  If desired, change the name of the printer then click on Next. 
9.  If desired, make the printer shared (so other users can access it), and 

select the operating system(s) that these other computers will be running. 
Click on Next.  

10.  Select Yes when you are asked "Would you like to print a test page?" 

Click on Finish to complete the installation. You may now print to the 
printer as if it were a local printer.