Copyright: Brother Industries, Ltd. 1997-2001


Brother Internet Print

Overview

Add Port

Port Settings

Partial E-mail Print

Copyright © 1997 –2001 by Brother Industries, Ltd.


Overview

Brother BIP product is a Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 software driver that allows a PC user at one location, to send a print job to a printer connected to an NC series print server at a remote location. 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.


Add Port

From the Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 Start button, select Settings and then Printers. Click on the icon of a using printer driver, select File from the menu bar, and then choose Properties. Click on the Details (95/98/Me) or Ports (NT/2000) tab and click the Add Port button. In the Add Port dialog, select the Other  radio button (95/98 Only) and then select Brother Internet Port. For the Port Name, enter a port name, make sure that the port name begins with BIP.


Port Settings

From the Windows95/98/Me/NT/2000 Start button, select Settings and then Printers. Click on the icon of the driver which has the Brother Internet Print port, select File from the menu bar, and then choose Properties. Click on the the Details  (95/98/Me) or Ports (NT/2000) tab and push the Port Settings button. Enter the following items.

a)	E-Mail Address

Input the E-Mail address of the printer which you would like to print to. The Printer must be configured to use the correct POP3 server address and mailbox account.

Example:

hl2400c_uk@brother.com

If you wish to send to more than one printer, separate each printer with a semicolons (;).

Example:

hl2400c_uk@brother.com;hl2400c_us@brother.com

b)	Your E-Mail Address

Input your E-Mail Address.

Example:

Thomas@brother.com

c)	SMTP E-Mail Server

Enter the address of your SMTP server. If you don't know the name of your SMTP server, ask your service provider or system administrator.

d)	Notification Address & Select desired notification

Specify the e-mail address of who will receive a notification of successful print and the type of notification received.


Partial E-mail Print

Very often System Administrators will configure their e-mail systems so that it is impossible for you to send large e-mail files. Each e-mail message that you send will take up some space on your company e-mail server. When you utilize the Brother Internet Print feature on your Brother network printer, you could very quickly create very large files. For example, if you e-mail a 600 dpi color print job, the e-mail file generated may take up several megabytes of hard disc space on the e-mail server. If your System Administrator has configured his mail system so that people can only send files that are a maximum size of 1Mb, this would mean that your print job would fail if the file size generated was greater than 1Mb.

Partial E-mail Print resolves this problem. Basically, it breaks down the print job into separate files. For example, if you generated a 5Mbyte print file and your System Administrator has only let you send a file size of 1Mbyte, Partial E-mail Print would create five separate e-mails which would then be sent through your e-mail server on an individual basis.

The printer would then receive these five files and re-construct them. Once they were re-constructed, it would print them as one single print job.

To use Partial E-mail Print, check the Use Partial E-mail Print option (which is enabled by default) in the Port Settings (Brother Internet Print) dialog. Your e-mail will then be separated accordingly. You MUST consult your System Administrator to find out the maximum value for this setting.

If you select the Enable Size check dialog and then try to print out a job which will occupy more than 1Mbyte, a dialog box will appear warning you that you are generating a large file. You can then choose to cancel the print job, or continue trying.

Hardware requirements

You must be using version 3.47 or later software in your Brother network card. To find out which version you are using, print out a configuration sheet and the version number will be printed. If you are using a version prior to 3.47, do not try to use this option.

a)	Use Partial E-mail Print

If you do not select this option, your e-mail will not be fragmented.

b)	Partition Value

Printing data will be split into sections of the size you specify. You can enter from 16 to 16384 (KBytes).

c)	Enable Size check dialog

A confirmation message will appear on your screen when you try to send data which is larger than 1Mbyte.


Address Book

Overview

Register a E-mail address of printers to a address book

Delete a E-mail address of printers from a address book

Set an E-mail address of printers to a Port Settings dialog

Copyright © 1997-2001 by Brother Industries, Ltd.


Overview

This utility can administer the E-mail addresses of Brother printers which support the Internet Print facility.


Register a E-mail address of printers to a address book

Push the New address button on the Tool bar, then this opens a Properties dialog. You must now set an E-mail address of the printer to which you would like to send a print job. If you push the OK button, your settings will be registered. In case of registering a group address, push the New group button on a tool bar, this opens a Properties dialog. You can then set a group name and select the members. To do this, push the New button this then opens a select members dialog.


Delete a E-mail address of printers from a address book

Click on the E-mail address that you wish to delete, then push the <<Delete button.


Set an E-mail address of printers to a Port Settings dialog

Click on the E-mail addresses from the list box, then push the To>> button. The selected addresses are registered.