General Code - Windows printer driver

Driver version 4.6.65.3370

Updates:

• Added safe graphic printing option as a solution to graphics printing over each other on TSPL printers.

Driver version 4.6.65.3360

Updates:

• Printer error detailes were missing while printing. The status reporting issue was limited to NicePrintQueue, Enterprise Print Manager(EPM) and NiceLabel.

  
  

Driver version 4.6.64.3290

What's new:

• Advanced TCP/IP port monitor now supports connections to names as well as IP addresses.

Driver version 4.6.63.3224

Updates:

• Rotation option on userinterface and QR and MicroQR barcode font rotation now work correctly

Driver version 4.6.62.3190

Updates:

• Spooler crash when changing printer port while printing was fixed.

Driver version 4.6.62.3172

What's new:

• Support for PDF417, QR, MaxiCode and Datamatrix barcode added.

Driver version 4.6.62.3156

Updates:

• Custom settings for unprintable now work correctly

Driver version 4.6.61.3098

Updates:

• When using Store/Recall with variables, recall stream was wrong. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.6.61.3095

Updates:

• SAP Exported export stream with variable EAN13 barcode on label now works correctly

Driver version 4.6.59.3002

Updates:

• Printer ports are now properly shown in Options dialog.

Driver version 4.6.59

What's new:

• Changed font for Chinese Windows to SimHei.

Driver version 4.6.51.2800

What's new:

• Czech, Lithuanian and Ukrainian languages are now supported also in all NiceDrivers.
  
  

Driver version 4.6.50.2773

Updates:

• When printing from standard Windows application (like Microsoft Word) and using page rotation (Landscape and/or rotate 180), positions of graphic were shifted relative to internal elements.
  Shift size depends on page dimensions, shift direction depends on rotation.
  

Driver version 4.6.49.2747

What's new:

• PrnInst utility was updated so that long INF file structure is supported.

Driver version 4.6.49.2611

Updates:

• When trying to preinstall drivers on Windows 7, user got an "Environment incorrect" error message. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.6.46.2533

Updates:

• Fixed issue with labels designed wider then maximum print width which could cause printer to print graphics incorrectly.

Driver version 4.6.44.2503

Updates:

• YOffset did not work OK when it was used continuous paper type. The label was cut and printed on wrong position (too soon).
  X and Y offset can not be negative.

Driver version 4.6.44.2472

Updates:

• Fixed problem with barcode Code39 when exporting to keyboard.

Driver version 4.6.43.2464

Updates:

• Negative offset values are now sent correctly for TSC printer models.

Driver version 4.6.43.2445

What's new:

• User is now able to change administrator settings without reopening driver properties dialog as an elevated user. A click on the shielded button and entering the credentials is all that is needed.

Driver version 4.6.43

What's new:

• There is one additional button (Run as administrator) on the printer's language dialog when current user has insufficient rights to change dialog's language.

Driver version 4.6.41.2364

Updates:

• Fixed occasional driver crash when printing extremely large graphics

Driver version 4.6.41.2363

Updates:

• Switching to PCX download now works

Driver version 4.6.41.2361

What's new:

• Page preview icons in "Advanced Dialog" corrected.
  

Driver version 4.6.41

What's new:

• Correction on Advanced tab dialog for Chinese language.

• New export variants added to TSC driver.

• Printing internal clock improvement.

• Offsets sent in mm will not be sent as they were entered in driver interface

• FONT 0 added to TSC driver.

Driver version 4.6.37.2305

Updates:

• Partial Cut option was not stored on Advenced setup dialog. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.6.37.2258

Updates:

• Uninstall of printer with Printer Install Wizard did not work on Windows 2003 (x64) system

Driver version 4.6.30.2171

Updates:

• Red Prarie export with barcodes no longer produces an error.

Driver version 4.6.26

What's new:

• Export to printer functionality is added for TSPL printers.

Driver version 4.6.22

What's new:

• Build number is now part of version information in About dialog

Driver version 4.6.14

Updates:

• For some commands Orientation parameter (landscape/portrait) was ignored and this should not happen, because width and height are related with orientation setting. This is corrected now and correct dimmensions are sent to the printer.

Driver version 4.6.01

Updates:

• Added Rotation to parsed text in command fonts

Driver version 4.6.00

Updates:

• Printing process was stopped during heavy duty printing.

Driver version 4.5.50

Updates:

• On old Intermec DP printers like EasyCoder 201,301,501,601 and E4 is there was wrong text output if variable was used. Character "a" was aded for prefix and suffix. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.5.43

Updates:

• Print key option is working now also on old DP printers like EasyCoder 501 is.

Driver version 4.5.42

What's new:

• Driver print speed optimization

Driver version 4.5.39

Updates:

• PrnInst showed login window, even if the user running the application was administrator.

Driver version 4.5.38

Updates:

• TSPL printers now support also SHIFT command which can be used to fine-tune the entire label up or down from its current position.

Driver version 4.5.37

Updates:

• PrnInst can now be moved to any position (second monitor) and it will stay there. It will not jump back to its original position.

Driver version 4.5.34

Updates:

• Postnet barcode fonts can no longer have their width changed.

Driver version 4.5.14

What's new:

• On Advanced Setup dialog > Miscellaneous there is an option for Update RTC. With this option enabled the Real time & clock will be updated during printing.
  Feature can not be enabled together with PRBUF compression of graphic.
• Store/Recall functionalitiy is implemented into Intermec DP printers.
• Store/Recall on Intermec DP printers

Driver version 4.5.12

What's new:

• Partial cut option is enabled on some TSPL models. With this option the label won't back feed when it is cut off.

Updates:

• User can select Automatic or Manual options for Job removing using keyboard in Printer Install Wizard
• There was wrong command sequance present in print stream when setting tear off/peel off/ cutter option. This is corrected now.
  There was added also cutter functionality of "Partial" cutter into some TSPL models.
• Fixed labeling software crash when turning off "Use Advanced printer driver interface".

Driver version 4.5.11

Updates:

• Printer Install Wizard uninstallation of driver doesn`t remove all of the files from the SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\ folder.

Driver version 4.5.09

Updates:

• Electonic Article Survailance was always disabled on Rfid printers
• Fixed printing of Datamatrix and QR barcode font with more then 255 character data
• Added automatic termination character for Maxicode barcode font data

Driver version 4.5.08

Updates:

• Fixed SAP export when using barcodes with variables

Driver version 4.5.07

What's new:

• New ALFA 1350 printer.

• Added support for custom printer name after silently installing a printer driver from command line (/INSTPRN; /INSTMULTPRN)

Driver version 4.5.06

What's new:

• Printer Installation Wizard will be able to automaticly remove all jobs when updating printer

Driver version 4.5.05

What's new:

• Printer Install Wizard can start an application specified in the command line, after it closes.

Driver version 4.5.03

What's new:

• Status monitor is able to detect port conflicts, when two printer drivers are using the same port for bidirectional communication with the printer.
  Also when user will delete or install a new printer to the system, Status Monitor will detect the change by itself.

Updates:

• When you disable the option "Use advanced printer driver interface" (in File -> Label Setup -> Printing tab) labeling software will crash with the error "GDI Failure, OK to continue?"

Driver version 4.5.02

Updates:

• PrnInst didn't set printer attributes correctly. This is fixed now.

Driver version 4.5.01

What's new:

• Turkish language added

Driver version 4.5.00

What's new:

•  - write MMF to alternative location (research)
   - update MemMaster to store files to this location
   - update driver to read from new location (make sure that the update will be backward compatible)

Driver version 4.4.73

Updates:

• Uninstall of driver package failed when running a 64bti system.

Driver version 4.4.69

What's new:

• Checkbox "Enable bidirectional support" (Printer properties -> Ports) can now be unchecked automatically during driver installation, corresponding to the flag "Bidirectional" in .inf file.
  Bidirectional=0  =>  checkbox is unchecked.
  Bidirectional=1  =>  checkbox is checked.
  If this information is ommited, Bidirectional=1 is assumed.

Updates:

• Labelling software can now recall variables with more than 31 characters of data.

• When you click on the Help button in About dialog help is opened, but it is not linked to any page.

• Help on About dialog opens help page with contents 'This program cannot display the webpage'.

Driver version 4.4.64

Updates:

• Removed Help button as no help is available.

• New Japanese translation for Printer Install Wizard

Driver version 4.4.63

Updates:

• When user starts Printer Install Wizard the application is shown but without focus

• Changed default number for cutting to 1 label instead of 0.

Driver version 4.4.60

What's new:

• Changed file info for Printer Install Wizard

Updates:

• Default value for Always use default settings is not correct when instaling it the driver with a configuration file attached.

Driver version 4.4.52

What's new:

• DLL files for user interface translation did not include version info data.

Updates:

• Labels transfered from different systems now retain their driver settings.

Driver version 4.4.51

Updates:

• Increased lenght for filename and path in import and export of settings.
• POSTNET barcodes have a fixed height and width, but the interface allows the user to change these dimensions. 

Driver version 4.4.50

Updates:

• Import and export didn't work if filename and path exceeded the length of 80 characters while windows support 256 character lengths
  
• Click on "Stocks" panel caused error if stock list was empty. This is fixed now.

Driver version 4.4.30

What's new:

• - support for preinstall on all supported platforms

Driver version 4.4.01

Updates:

• EndDocument escape was sent even when there was no StartDocument.
• If driver gets no separator character description for decimal number from the OS, driver puts a "+" or "," string as default character. The result was seen for page size (example)
  Now the dot character "." is set for default separator in this case.
  

Driver version 4.4.00

What's new:

• Invalid stocks are now marked. User can open the Stock properties dialog and press OK to fix the problem (which is usually stock dimension). Stock size will be automatically adjusted.

Updates:

• UI for commands fonts works now properly also in Japanese language.
• In some rare cases streams sent to the printer had an extra "0" added in it.
• Printing on Intermec printers did not work, because PRBUF graphics compression was not correct

Driver version 4.3.73

Updates:

• When user selects numeric format for RFID Read and Store no text is seen

Driver version 4.3.72

Updates:

• Sometimes a print stream is not send to the printer, and it stays stuck in the spooler

Driver version 4.3.71

What's new:

• Added syncronised printing support for models with who support bidirectional communication. Each label is check wheater it is printed
• Functionality for Reading and storing of rfid data implemented. User can read a rfig tag's value and store it to a database.

Driver version 4.3.63

Updates:

• Port monitor crashed when setting up port details (IP and port number)

Driver version 4.3.60

Updates:

• Barcode fonts vanished instead of being imported.

Driver version 4.3.59

Updates:

• Microsoft Vista operating system is not mentioned in the text file that is distributed with the driver.
• Stocks were not imported if user didn't view the stocks dialog beforehand

Driver version 4.3.56

Updates:

• Barcode ratio values are not shown in Barcode Fonts dialog. This only happens when you are editing existing barcode font.

Driver version 4.3.55

Updates:

• Spooler crashed during the installation, if there were any printers allready installed on the system.

Driver version 4.3.54

Updates:

• While installing a printer driver on certain systems the spooler crashed.
• "delete" button was enabled even if the barcode/command fonts list was empty. This is fixed now.
• Export of barcode fonts didn't work properly unless user clicked on barcode fonts tab before exporting them. This is fixed now.
• Increased timeouts for better printer status response times
• Slow printing occurred when a Not Accessible printer was found on a network. Printer status was also not received immediately.

Driver version 4.3.53

Updates:

• Status for printers (that use bidirectionaal communication) was not correct when the printer was not physicaly connected to the computer. Status was changing between Not Accessible and Ready

Driver version 4.3.51

What's new:

• Driver can now override the default document settings of some applications with driver default settings (set up in printer spooler)

Driver version 4.3.07

Updates:

• After viewing the Help file CHM file was locked and because of that reboot was needed to complete the installation. New version of driver will not lock the CHM any more and because of that reboot is not needed.

Driver version 4.3.06

What's new:

• Barcode fonts and command fonts are now stored in registry.

Updates:

• Printing did not work on nonbidirectional printers. Printer Error was displayed the whole time

Driver version 4.3.05

Updates:

• Printing did not work when bidirectional was enabled

Driver version 4.3.04

What's new:

• New Port monitor is added to the distribution
• On Windows Vista there is warning displayed if user doesn't have appropriate permissions to create (or write to) certain driver files.
• Old HLP help file format was exchanged for new CHM file format.

Updates:

• When user changed printer's port, the printing was no longer possible until reboot.
• Port monitor now uses correct (64 bit) interface file on 64bit systems.
• Installation did not go through when upgrading from old printer driver, if the user had the driver connected to the Advanced Port Monitor (LAN)
• Bug fixed, where some changes on stocks updated default umprintable area values.

Driver version 4.3.03

Updates:

• Spooler crashed, if user had multiple bidirectional printers using the same port, while using a status monitoring application

Driver version 4.3.02

Updates:

• Stocks were not imported properly or were not shown immediately after import.

Driver version 4.3.01

What's new:

• Korean language added.

Updates:

• Driver does not show all stocks in 'Stocks' combo box on 'Options' dialog. Missing stocks have heights that are near the maximum printer's limit.

Driver version 4.3.00

Updates:

• Changed window handling so that port monitor setup windows can appear on Vista

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