Brother HL-1870N User Guide

CHAPTER 8 DLC PRINTING 

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To use DLC on other network systems, you will generally need vendor-supplied 
software. Typically such software will support the Brother print servers. Follow 
the vendor's instructions to install the DLC protocol on your system. 
 
Once the protocol is installed, create a network port in the same way that you did 
for Windows NT in the previous sections. The MAC address (Ethernet address) 
of the print server should automatically appear during the configuration process. 
 
The final step is to create a printer using the normal operating system printer 
setup method. The only difference is that instead of connecting the printer to the 
LPT1 parallel port, you point it to the network port you just created. 
 
Brother does not recommend using the DLC protocol with Windows for 
Workgroup 3.11 in a peer-to-peer configuration if the printer will be heavily used. 
This is because jobs may be rejected due to print spooler timeouts. The best 
solution in these situations is to set up one PC as a server for handling network 
print jobs. All of the other PCs send their print jobs to the server PC using 
NetBEUI or TCP/IP, and the server PC then uses DLC to send the print jobs to 
the Brother print server. 
 
 

 
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