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Internet Printing Installation 2

Overview 2

Brother Internet Print (BIP) software for Windows

98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition it

allows a PC user at one location to send a print job to a Brother Printer at a remote location via the Internet.

For example, a user on a PC in New York could print a document directly from their Microsoft Excel

application program to a printer in Paris. The Brother Internet Print software is located on the CD-ROM

included with your machine.

Brother Internet Print General Information 2

The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows

98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition

Installation Wizard. It creates a virtual port on the PC that operates in a similar way to the standard LPT1

printer port from the application program point of view. The user can use the Print Manager to create a printer

that uses this port along with a standard Windows

98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition

compatible printer. Any Windows

98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition applications program

can therefore print to this printer (and hence to the virtual port) without modification or operational procedure.

When a job is printed to the BIP virtual port, it is actually MIME-encoded (converted to a standard Internet

E-mail message) and sent out to a Brother print server at the remote location. This means that BIP is

compatible with most common E-mail software packages. The only requirement is that the E-mail server be

capable of sending E-mail message over the Internet.

In more detail, the procedure works in the following way:

 If you are connected to a Local Area Network, the E-mail message is passed to the E-mail server, which

in turn transmits the message out over the Internet using the SMTP protocol (Simple Mail Transport

Protocol) to the remote print server.

 If you are connecting via a modem directly to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), the ISP handles the

routing of the E-mail to the remote print server.

 At the remote site, an E-mail server receives the E-mail message. The remote Print/Fax server, which has

its own E-mail address, uses the POP3 protocol (Post Office Protocol 3) to download the E-mail message

from the E-mail server. It then decodes the attachment and prints it out on the printer.

Note

If an E-mail is received that has not been configured to use the BIP virtual port driver, the printer will print

the E-mail out as a text document.

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