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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