CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS
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Windows
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95/98/Me users can send print jobs using the IPP
protocol via Windows
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2000 computer, provided that the
Microsoft Internet Print Services software is installed on the
client PC, Internet Information Server (IIS) is installed and
running on the server and that the client PC is using version 4
or later of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
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
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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
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95/98/MeNT4.0/2000/
XP Print Manager to create a printer that uses this port along with a
standard Windows
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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. 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:
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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.
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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.
