CHAPTER 15 Brother BFP Software

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Brother15BFP Software

Brother Internet Fax Printing Software

Overview

Depending on your network configuration and application requirements for sending faxes via a network, you can choose between Brother Network PC FAX Software or Brother Internet Fax Printing Software. With either software, viewable document such as web pages, word documents, PDF documents can be sent from the users desktop to any standard Facsimile machines, Internet fax machines and E-mail addresses.

Brother Internet Fax Printing Software (BFP) is a Windows® 95/98/Me, Windows® NT® and Windows® 2000/XP *1 software utility that gives network PC Fax and Internet Fax functionality from the desktop to users on your network or over the Internet.

BFP utilizes SMTP as the transport for sending documents from your PC. This allows any PC supported by a SMTP mail server to send an Internet FAX even if that PC does not have direct access to the networked FAX/MFC.

Brother Network PC Fax Software utilizes LPR as the transport for sending documents from your PC to the networked FAX/MFC for transmission. This requires that the sending PC has access to the network that the sending FAX/MFC is connected.

*1 Windows® XP users must download the Windows® XP version of the BFP Software. Please check

http://solutions.brother.com for availability and download information.

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Figure 1 Brother Internet Fax Printing Overview

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