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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

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 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:

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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.

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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.

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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.