Brother MFC-8840DN manual Brother Internet Print General Information

5Windows® 95/98/Me users can send print jobs using the IPP protocol via Windows® 2000 computer, provided that the Microsoft Internet Print Services software is installed on the client PC, Internet Information Server (IIS) is installed and running on the server and that the client PC is using version 4 or later of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Brother Internet Print General Information

The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows® 95/98/Me/ 2000/XP and Windows NT® 4.0 Installation Wizard. It creates a virtual port on the Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®

4.0PC 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® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT® 4.0 Print Manager to create a printer that uses this port along with a standard Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT® 4.0-compatible printer. Any Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT® 4.0 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/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:

■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.

■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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