Brother NC-2100p - Manual (Page 48)

CHAPTER 5 BIP INTERNET PRINTING INSTALLATION
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Brother Internet Print
General Information
The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP
Installation Wizard. It creates a virtual port on the Windows
95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP 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
Windows 95/98/MeNT4.0/2000/XP Print Manager to create a printer that uses this
port along with a standard Windows 95/98/Me, NT4.0/2000/XP -compatible printer.
Any Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP 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 using Winsock 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 server, which has its own E-mail address, uses the POP3 protocol (Post
Office Protocol 3) to download the E-mail message from the server. It then
decodes the attachment and prints it out on the printer.
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.