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Configuring the Bonjour printing environment

Configure the Bonjour operating environment when using this machine in the Mac OS control.

Bonjour technology runs based on TCP/IP, enabling you to automatically configure the network settings for networked devices and find available services.

Enabling the Bonjour function on this machine enables the computer to automatically detect this networked machine and display it in the list as a printer that can be added.

Select [Network] - [Bonjour Setting] in administrator mode of Web Connection (or in [Utility] - [Administrator] of this machine), and configure the following settings.

Setting	Description
[Bonjour]	When using Bonjour, set this option to ON (default: OFF).
[Bonjour Name]	Enter a Bonjour name that is to be displayed as the name of connected device (using up to 63 characters).
[Wide-Area Bonjour]	When using Wide-Area Bonjour, set this option to ON (default: ON). You can detect this machine across segments from the computer while the machine and computer are connected to different networks. To use Wide-Area Bonjour, you need to specify the DNS server address you are using.

Setting

Description

[Bonjour]

When using Bonjour, set this option to ON (default: OFF).

[Bonjour Name]

Enter a Bonjour name that is to be displayed as the name of connected device (using up to 63 characters).

[Wide-Area Bonjour]

When using Wide-Area Bonjour, set this option to ON (default: ON).

You can detect this machine across segments from the computer while the machine and computer are connected to different networks.

To use Wide-Area Bonjour, you need to specify the DNS server address you are using.