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5 - 2 CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS
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Brother Internet Print General Information
The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows
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95/98/Me/
NT4.0/2000/XP Installation Wizard. It creates a virtual port on the
Windows
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95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP 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 Windows
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95/98/MeNT4.0/2000/
XP Print Manager to create a printer that uses this port along with a
standard Windows
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95/98/Me, NT4.0/2000/XP-compatible printer.
Any Windows
®
95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP 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:
n 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.
n 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.
n At the remote site, an E-mail server receives the E-mail message.
The remote print 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.
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.