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Definitions of warnings, cautions, and notes We use the following icon throughout this User’s Guide: Notes tell you how you should respond to a situation that may arise or give tips about how the operation works with other features. Trademarks Brother and the Brother logo are registered trademarks and BRAdmin Professional is a trademark of Brother Industries, Ltd. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All oth
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This product is approved for use in the country of purchase only. Do not use this product outside the country of purchase as it may violate the wireless telecommunication and power regulations of that country. ® ® ® Windows XP in this document represents Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64 ® Edition and Windows XP Home Edition. Go to the Brother Solutions Center ( http://solutions.brother.com) ® for more information on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
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Table of Contents 1 Internet FAX 1 Overview....................................................................................................................................................1 Getting Connected...............................................................................................................................1 Control Panel Key Functions ...............................................................................................................2 Sending an Internet
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Internet FAX 1 1 1 Overview 1 Internet Faxing (I-Fax) allows you to send and receive FAX documents using the Internet as the transport mechanism. Documents are transmitted in E-mail messages as attached TIFF-F files. This means that PC’s are also able to receive and send documents, providing that the PC has as an application that can generate ® and view TIFF-F files, you can use Microsoft Imaging or a TIFF-F viewer application. Any documents sent via the machine will automatically be convert
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Internet FAX Control Panel Key Functions 1 1 Search/Speed Dial + 1 1 Used to change input mode. You can use Dial Pad keys as Standard alphabet character key(26 letters), as well as @. space ! “ # % & ’ () + / : ; < > = ? [ ] ^ - $ , _ and Numbers. Search/Speed Dial + 3 1 To change between upper case and lower case for entering the E-mail/ I-Fax address. d or c 1 Moves the LCD cursor to the left or right when you enter text. OK 1 Used to store multiple numbers. Start 1 Begins transmitting the d
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Internet FAX If you specify more than 16 characters, the LCD panel will scroll the name to the left character by character. You can enter up to 60 characters. 1 a Press Mono Start to send the document. After the document is scanned, it is transmitted to the Recipient Internet Fax Machine automatically via your SMTP server. You can cancel the send operation by pressing the Stop/Exit button during scanning. After the transmission has finished, the machine will return to standby mode. See Setup
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Internet FAX ® If the PC to which you wish to send a document is not running Windows 98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition operating system, please inform the PC's owner that they must install some software 1 that can view TIFF-F files. ® You can use “Microsoft Imaging” that is supplied with Windows® 98/Me/2000 and Windows “Picture and Fax Viewer” with WIndows XP/XP Professional x64 Edition. Forwarding Received E-mail and Fax Messages 1 You can forward received E-mail or standard fa
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Internet FAX Setup Mail (RX) 1 1 There are three possible settings for this option ON/MDN/OFF. Receive Notification “ON” When switched to “ON” a fixed message is sent back to the sending station to indicate successful reception and processing of the message. These fixed messages depend on the operation requested by the sending station. Report messages consist of SUCCESS : Received From Receive Notification “MDN” When switched to “MDN” a report as described above is sent back
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Internet FAX Relay Broadcast from a machine 1 1 123456789 UKFAX@brother.co.uk FAX@brother.com Internet UKFAX@brother.co.uk(fax#123456789) In this example, your machine has an E-mail address of FAX@brother.com, you wish to send a document from this machine to another machine in England with an E-mail address of UKFAX@brother.co.uk, this machine will then forward the document to a standard fax machine using a conventional telephone line. If your E-mail address is FAX@brother.com, you must con
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Internet FAX Relay Broadcast from a PC 1 1 Your PC UKFAX@brother.co.uk 123456789 Internet UKFAX@brother.co.uk (fax#123456789) You can also send E-mail from your PC and have it relayed to a conventional FAX machine. The method of entering the phone number of the conventional FAX machine that will receive the relayed E-mail will vary depending on the mail application you are using. The following are some examples of different mail applications: Some E-mail applications do not support sending
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® Windows Internet printing 2 2 Internet Printing Installation 2 2 Overview 2 ® Brother Internet Print (BIP) software for Windows 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
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® Windows Internet printing Brother Internet Print: Configuring the Brother Print Server 2 The print server can be configured using the BRAdmin Professional utility. 2 Print Server Configuration Checklist 2 Note Before configuring the print server to receive BIP jobs, be sure that the E-mail server at the remote site (the receiving end) is configured to handle the TCP/IP POP3, and SMTP (SMTP is only required if the notification feature is enabled). a Configure the POP3 server on the E-mail
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® Windows Internet printing e Enter the POP3 Account Name for the remote Brother print server. Usually this will be the first part of the E-mail address (for example, if the E-mail address of the print server is emailprinter@xyz.com, then the POP3 Account Name would be emailprinter). f Enter the password for the mailbox, if any. 2 g The print server is configured by default to poll the POP3 server every 10 minutes. You may change this value, if desired. h If you have enabled notification, ent
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® Windows Internet printing i Press OK to continue. You will then be asked to re-start your computer. ® j Once your computer has re-started you must create a printer on your Windows ® 98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition system using the standard Windows printer setup ® procedure. To do this, go the Start button and select Settings and then Printers (Windows 2 ® 98/98SE/Me/2000). For Windows XP/XP Professional x64 Edition users, go to the Start button, select Printers and Faxes. ®
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® Windows Internet printing Adding a Second Brother Internet Port 2 You should not re-run the install program to add a new Brother Internet Port. Instead, press the Start button, select Settings, and open the Printers window. Click on the icon of a printer that is using BIP, select File ® 2 from the menu bar, and then choose Properties. Click on the Details (Ports on Windows 2000/XP/XP Professional x64 Edition) tab and click the Add Port button. ® In the Add Port dialog, select the Other radi
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Control panel setup 3 3 LAN menu 3 The control panel LAN menu section can be used to configure network settings. Press Menu, 5 for LAN and then proceed to the menu selection you wish to configure. 3 ® Please note that the machine is supplied with the BRAdmin Professional Windows software, BRAdmin Light ® Macintosh software and RemoteSetup which also can be used to configure network settings (See the Network User’s Guide located on the CD-ROM included with your machine). Note If you already in
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Control panel setup DHCP mode 3 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is one of several automated mechanisms for IP address ® ® allocation. If you have a DHCP server in your network (typically a UNIX , Windows 2000/XP network) the print server will automatically obtain its IP address from a DHCP server and register its name with any RFC 1001 and 1002 compliant dynamic name services. Note 3 If you do not want your print server configured via DHCP, BOOTP or RARP, you must set the BOOT M
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Control panel setup Note Depending on the system, this entry might be called “bootps” instead of “bootp”. In order to enable BOOTP, simply use an editor to delete the “#” (if there is no “#”, then BOOTP is already enabled). Then edit the BOOTP configuration file (usually /etc/bootptab) and enter the name, network type (1 for Ethernet), Ethernet address and the IP address, subnet mask and gateway of the print server. 3 Unfortunately, the exact format for doing this is not standardized, so yo
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Control panel setup Subnet Mask 3 This field displays the current subnet mask used by the machine. If you are not using DHCP or BOOTP to obtain the subnet mask, enter the desired subnet mask. Check with your network administrator for the subnet mask to use. a Press Menu, 5, 1, 3. 3 b Select 1 to change. Enter the Subnet Mask address. c Press OK. d Press Stop/Exit. Gateway 3 This field displays the current gateway or router address used by the machine. If you are not using DHCP or BOOTP to obt
