Print using an LPR port in Microsoft® Windows® XP

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In order to print using LPR, an LPR port must be added. Go to “Start” “Control Panel” “Add or Remove programs” “Add/Remove Windows Components” to start up the Windows Components Wizard. In the “Components” list, select “Other Network File and Print Services”, click [Details], select “Print Services for Unix”, and then click [OK]. In the Windows Components Wizard, click [Next]. After the component is added, click [Finish]. The LPR port is added.

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Go to “Start” – “Control Panel” – “Printers and Other Hardware”, and then click [Add printer] to start up the wizard.

Select “Local printer attached to this computer”. Be sure to clear the “Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer” check box.

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In the Select a Printer Port dialog box, select “Create a new port” to create a new port. Select “LPR Port”, and then click [Next].

If the destination print port was created when the PS-9000 was installed, select the port from the “Use the following port” list, and then click [Next].

In the “Name or address of server providing lpd” box of the Add LPR compatible printer dialog box, type in the IP address that was set for PS-9000. In the “Name of printer or print queue on that server” box, type in “lp”, and then click [OK].

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Brother PS-9000 user manual Print using an LPR port in Microsoft Windows XP