Enhanced Redirect
Printing for the Black Ice Printer Drivers
Redirect printing to multiple printers
In addition to generating TIFF, JPEG, PDF, etc., the
documents printed to the Black Ice printer can be
printed to a physical printer, to get a paper copy
of the document in addition to the electronic copy.
This is a great feature for archiving and keeping a
paper copy of the original. The Black Ice printer
driver is capable of performing both of these steps
with a single print. The user simply prints their
Word, Excel, HTML, etc. document to the Black Ice
printer and the Black Ice printer will generate the
image and then forward the print job to an
additional predefined printer. Per our customers’
requests, Black Ice recently added a new feature
allowing for redirecting print jobs to more than one
printer at the same time. This new functionality
allows developers to perform multiple printing
operations at once, for example printing to the
Black Ice PDF driver to generate a PDF file, and
then redirecting the printing to both a physical
printer and a fax printer to fax the document. In
order to redirect to more than one printer, all of
the specified printers must have the same settings,
such as DPI (Resolution), Paper Size and paper
orientation.
The printers are specified by name in the INI file
of the Black Ice printer driver. The job will be
redirected to the target printers in the order as
they appear in the INI file.
Logging the print redirection
The latest version of the Black Ice printer drivers
have introduced a logging mechanism for the redirect
printing option. The log will be generated in the
output directory specified for the Black Ice printer
and can be turned on and off from the INI file. The
generated log will contain the date and the time the
document was forwarded, the name of the printer(s)
where the document was sent and the time when the
printing finished. The log file can be used to track
the forwarding process, report errors, etc.
