Brother HL-1870N User Guide

CHAPTER 2 TCP/IP PRINTING 

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Follow these steps if the printer driver is already installed. 
 

1.  Click on Start then select Settings/Printers to display the currently 

installed printer drivers. 

2.  Double click the printer driver you wish to configure and select Printer 

menu and then choose Properties. 

3.  Select the Ports tab and click on Add Port. 
4.  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. 

5.  Type in the IP address that you assigned to the print server in the Name 

or address of server providing lpd: box. If you have edited your HOSTS 
file or are using Domain Name System, you can 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. 

6.  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: 

 

 

 
7.  Click on the Close button. 
8.  You should now see that the printer driver is configured to print to the IP 

address (or name) that you specified. 

9.  If you wish to share the printer, click on the Sharing tab and share the 

driver.