Brother MFC-5460CN - Manual (Page 13)

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Internet Printing Installation
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Overview
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Brother Internet Print (BIP) software for Windows
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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
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The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows
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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
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compatible printer. Any Windows
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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 protocol (Simple Mail Transport
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.
Windows
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Internet printing
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