Specifying a different url, Other sources of information – Brother HL-2170W User Manual

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Internet printing for Windows

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printer automatically. This means that you do not need to inform Windows

®

2000 about the type of

printer driver to be used.
Go to h.

h

The driver installation starts automatically.

Note

If the printer driver that you are installing does not have a Digital Certificate you will see a warning
message. Click Continue Anyway

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to continue with the installation.

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Yes for Windows

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2000 users

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For Windows

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XP and Windows Server

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2003: Click Have Disk. You will then be asked to insert the

driver disk.
For Windows

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2000: Click OK when you see the Insert Disk screen.

j

Click Browse and select the appropriate Brother printer driver that is contained in the CD-ROM or in the
network share.
For example, select the “X:\\install\your language\PCL\win2kxpvista

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” folder (where X is your drive

letter). Click Open.

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“winxpx64vista64” folder for 64-bit OS users

k

Click OK.

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Check Yes if you want to use this printer as the default printer. Click Next.

m

Click Finish and the printer is now configured and ready to print. To test the printer connection, print a
test page.

Specifying a different URL

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Please note that there are several possible entries that you can enter for the URL field.
http://printer_ip_address:631/ipp
This is the default URL and we recommend that you use this URL.
http://printer_ip_address:631/ipp/port1

This is for HP

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Jetdirect

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compatibility.

http://printer_ip_address:631/
If you forget the URL details, you can simply enter the above text (http://printer_ip_address/) and the printer
will still receive and process data.
Where printer_ip_address is the IP address or the node name.

Other sources of information

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How to configure the IP address of the printer, see Configuring your printer for a network on page 8.

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