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Adding the Brother MFC-7820N Network Printer to Windows XP

If your Brother MFC-7820N is already running on your network, you can follow the instruction here to get it to work with your Windows XP computer. First download the "Add Printer Wizard Driver" from Brother's web site (see "Related Links" below). The driver is only 0.70 MB, so it is going to be a quick download.

After downloading the driver, double-click on the driver executable. The executable archive will ask you where to decompress the files. I suggest you put it in a folder on the Desktop.

Next, open up "Printers and Faxes" (either through the "Control Panel" or from the "Start" menu). Once it's open, click on "Add a printer" link on the left hand side. That brings up the "Add Printer Wizard" as shown in the screen shot below. Click on the "Next >" button to continue.

In the next dialog (see screen shot below), Windows asks you whether it's a local or a network printer. Not the bit intuitively, select "Local printer attached to this computer". Even though we are setting up a network printer, the only way to set the Brother MFC-7820N driver is via the local printer method. Uncheck "Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer". Then click the "Next >" button to continue.

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