Brother PT-P900W Quick Setup Manual - Page 6

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 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.

Before connecting the LAN cable, make sure that the P-touch Label

Printer is turned off.

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.

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.

Start P-touch Editor, and then open the document you want to print.

Create a label design.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Select a label template or design.

NOTE

You can also select a label or image you designed previously, and print

it.

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.