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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
®
4.0 and Windows
®
2000/XP 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 machine.
Brother Network PC Fax Software utilizes LPR as the transport for
sending documents from your PC to the networked machine for
transmission. This requires that the sending PC has access to the
network that the sending machine is connected.