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CHAPTER 11 BROTHER INTERNET PRINT (BIP)
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CHAPTER 11
BROTHER INTERNET PRINT (BIP)
BIP Remote Internet Printing Installation
Brother’s BIP (Brother Internet Print) product is a Windows
95/98/NT4.0 software driver that allows a PC user at one
location, to send a print job to a printer connected to a Brother
print server at a remote location via the Internet. For example, a
user on a PC in New York could print a document directly from
his Microsoft Excel application program to a printer in Paris.
General Information
The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows
95/98/NT4.0 Installation Wizard. It creates a virtual port on the
Windows 95/98/NT4.0 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/NT4.0 Print
Manager to create a printer that uses this port along with a
standard Windows 95/98/NT4.0-compatible printer driver (for
example, the HL-series drivers). Any Windows 95/98/NT4.0
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 either the Messaging Winsock or API (MAPI)
(MAPI is Windows 95/98 only). 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.
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