Brother HL-1850 User Guide

CHAPTER 8 DLC PRINTING 

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1.  Log into Windows 2000 with administrative privileges. From the Start 

menu, select Settings and then Printers. 

2.  Select Add Printer (If you have already installed a Brother printer driver, 

double click the printer driver that you wish to configure and then select 
Printers/Properties, select the Ports tab, Click on “Add Port” and 
continue from Step 6 (ignoring steps 11-14) about installing the correct 
driver). 

3. Click 

Next. 

4.  Select Local Printer and make sure that “Automatically detect and install 

my Plug and Play printer” is not checked. 

5. Click 

Next 

6.  Select the “Create a new port:” option and highlight “Hewlett-Packard 

Network Port” 

7. Click 

Next 

8.  A list of available print server MAC addresses (Ethernet addresses) 

appears in the larger box under Card Address. Select the address of the 
desired print server (you can see the Ethernet address on the printer 
configuration page) 

 
You can find the node name and MAC address by printing out the printer 
configuration page. Refer to the User’s Guide for information on how to print the 
configuration page on your print server. 
 

9.  The selected print server address will then appear in the smaller box 

under Card Address. 

10.  Type in any desired name for the port (the name must not be the name of 

an existing port or DOS device, such as LPT1) and click OK then on the 
Printer Ports screen, click Next. 

11.  Select the correct driver click Next. 
12.  Give a name to the printer and specify if you wish to be able to print 

from DOS application. Then click Next 

13.  Specify the share name (if you are going to share the printer). 
14.  Enter the Location and Comment information and click Next until you 

see the “Completing the Add Printer Wizard” screen. 

15. Click Finish