Brother SHB6102 manual Windows Internet printing, Internet Printing Installation, Overview

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Windows® Internet printing

Internet Printing Installation

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Overview

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

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 (Simple Mail Transfer 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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Contents Network USER’S Guide Definitions of warnings, cautions, and notes TrademarksCompilation and publication notice Important Note Table of Contents Internet FAX OverviewGetting Connected Control Panel Key Functions Sending an Internet FaxReceiving an E-mail or Internet Fax Receiving an Internet Fax to a PCSetup Mail TX Forwarding Received E-mail and Fax MessagesTX Verification Mail Setup Mail RX Error mailRelay Broadcasting Relay Broadcast from a machine Sending to multiple phone numbersImportant information on Internet Fax Relay Broadcast from a PCOutlook 97/98/2000/2002/2003 Internet Printing Installation Windows Internet printingOverview Brother Internet Print General InformationBrother Internet Print Configuring the Brother Print Server Print Server Configuration ChecklistSetup from CD-ROM Windows Internet printing Other sources of information Adding a Second Brother Internet PortControl panel setup Setup TCP/IPBoot Method LAN menuControl panel setup IP Address Subnet Mask GatewayNode Name Wins Config Wins ServerDNS Server ApipaSetup Internet Mail AddressSmtp server POP3 server Mailbox NameMailbox Pwd Auto Polling Poll FrequencyHeader Del Error Mail NotificationSender Subject Size Limit Setup Relay Rly BroadcastRelay Domain Relay ReportSetup Misc EthernetTime Zone Printing the Network Configuration List Scan to E-mail E-mail serverRestoring the network settings to factory default Appendix a Entering textIndex Text
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