Printing Using The Mobile Device - Brother PT-P900W Quick Setup Manual

 Connecting Using a Wired LAN (PT-P950NW Only)
NOTE
To use a static IP address to connect your P-touch Label Printer to a
wired LAN connection, install the printer driver and Printer Setting Tool,
and then specify wired LAN connection settings.
For more information, see Installing the Software and Printer Driver to a
Computer.
1.
Before connecting the LAN cable, make sure that the P-touch Label
Printer is turned off.
2.
Connect the LAN cable to the LAN port on the back of the P-touch Label
Printer, and then connect the other end of the LAN cable to an active
LAN port on the network.
3.
Turn on the P-touch Label Printer.
NOTE
The printer's communication settings can be changed with
[Communication Settings] in the Printer Setting Tool.
For more information, see the User's Guide.
Printing from the computer
There are various methods for printing with this P-touch Label Printer.
The following describes the procedure for printing from a computer using
P-touch Editor.
1.
Start P-touch Editor, and then open the document you want to print.
2.
Create a label design.
3.
Select [File] then [Print] from the menu bar or by clicking the [Print]
icon.

Printing Using the Mobile Device

Installing Applications for Use with Mobile Devices
You can either use your P-touch Label Printer as a stand-alone label Printer
or connect it to a mobile device. To create and print labels directly from your
mobile device, install the Brother mobile applications, and then connect your
P-touch Label Printer to your mobile device. The following Brother
applications can be downloaded free-of-charge from the App Store or Google
Play™:
- Mobile Cable Label Tool
- Brother iPrint&Label
- Mobile Transfer Express
Application Feature
Mobile Cable Print labels for cables and
Label Tool patch panels using
templates on a smartphone,
tablet or other mobile device
directly to your P-touch
Label Printer.
Brother Create and print labels using
iPrint&Label templates on a smartphone,
tablet or other mobile device
directly to your P-touch
Label Printer.
Mobile Allows you to use a mobile
Transfer device to download
Express databases and label data,
which was created on a
computer using P-touch
Editor and saved to a cloud
service, and send them to
your P-touch Label Printer.
Mobile
Connection
Device
Apple iPhone/ Wireless
Direct / 
iPad/
iPod touch or Wi-Fi
Android™
device
Connecting the P-touch Label Printer to a Mobile Device
1.
Confirm the Wireless Direct settings of the P-touch Label Printer.
®

• For Windows
Connect the P-touch Label Printer and computer with a USB cable.
Start the Printer Setting Tool on your computer, and click the
[Communication Settings] button. Confirm that [Infrastructure and
Wireless Direct] or [Wireless Direct] is selected for [Selected
Interface] in the [General] tab.
For more information, see the User's Guide.
• For Mac
Connect the P-touch Label Printer and computer with a USB cable.
Start the Printer Setting Tool on your computer, and confirm that
[WirelessDirect] is set to [On] in the [Wireless LAN] tab.
For more information, see the User's Guide.
2.
Press and hold the (Wi-Fi) button on your P-touch Label Printer for
one second to turn the Wi-Fi function on.
The (Wi-Fi) indicator starts flashing in blue once every three
seconds.
3.
In the Wi-Fi settings screen of your mobile device, select the SSID of
the P-touch Label Printer and enter the password.
NOTE
• The factory default SSID and password are as follows:
SSID: "DIRECT-*****_PT-P900W" or "DIRECT-*****_PT-P950NW" is
the last five digits of the product serial number.
(You can find the serial number label in the tape compartment of the
P-touch Label Printer.)
Password (network key): 00000000
• You can connect the P-touch Label Printer to a mobile device in the
Infrastructure Mode via a wireless access point/router.
Printing from a Mobile Device
1.
Start the application (Mobile Cable Label Tool/Brother iPrint&Label) on
your mobile device.
NOTE
Make sure that the P-touch Label Printer is connected to your mobile
device.
See Installing Applications for Use with Mobile Devices.
2.
Select a label template or design.
NOTE
You can also select a label or image you designed previously, and print
it.
3.
Tap [Print] in the application menu.
Connecting the Other Interfaces (Serial
Interface/Bluetooth Interface)
You can connect the P-touch Label Printer to a barcode scanner using a
serial interface or Bluetooth interface.
To connect using the serial interface, see the User's Guide.
To connect using the Bluetooth interface, see [FAQs & Troubleshooting] on
the Brother Solutions Center at support.brother.com.