Printing From A Macintosh; Using Appletalk; Overview - Brother HL-5170DN Network User's Manual

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Printing From a Macintosh

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Printing From a Macintosh

Using AppleTalk

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TCP/IP or the Simple Network Configuration
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capabilities of Mac OS X

Overview

Brother print servers support the AppleTalk protocol running over
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Ethernet (also known as EtherTalk). This allows Macintosh users to
print at the same time as all other Ethernet network using the
AppleTalk (also referred to as EtherTalk) protocol.
With the release of System 8.6 or later, Apple introduced a TCP/IP
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printing capability. This allows Macintosh users to send print jobs
using the TCP/IP protocol.
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With the release of Mac OS X 10.2, Apple introduced Simple
Network Configuration capabilities. These Simple Network
Configuration capabilities support automatic network configuration. If
you choose to use the the Simple Network Configuration capabilities
features of your Brother product, you usually do not need to
configure any IP address settings yourself.
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