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7 - 2 CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS

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NC9100h_FM6.0

Brother Internet Print General Information

The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows

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 98/Me/

2000/XP Installation Wizard. It creates a virtual port on the 
Windows

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 98/Me/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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 98/Me/2000/XP Print Manager 

to create a printer that uses this port along with a standard Windows

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98/Me, 2000/XP-compatible machine. Any Windows

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 98/Me/2000/

XP applications program can therefore print to this machine (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/Fax 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/Fax 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/Fax server.

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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 machine.

If an E-mail is received that has not been configured to use 
the BIP virtual port driver, the machine will print the E-mail 
out as a text document.