PDF Printer Driver Online Manual

Installation, Licensing and Registration

Supported Operating Systems

Installing the PDF Printer Driver on Windows 11/10

Installing the PDF Printer Driver on Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012

Multi-printer Installation

Activating Multiple Threads

Updating the Printer Driver

Registering the PDF Printer Driver

Uninstalling the PDF Printer Driver

Reinstalling the PDF Printer Driver

Upgrading the PDF Printer Driver version 14.69 or older and preserving the printer settings

Installing the OCR Language Pack for Printer Drivers

Black Ice Printer Manager

Upload document to M-Files

Upload to Database

Conversion Profiles

Installation/Uninstallation

Configuring the PDF Printer Driver Printing Preferences

Device Settings Tab

File Formats Tab

Filename Generation Tab

Start Application

Watermark/Stamp Tab

Annotation-Header-Footer tab

Text Output Tab

Bates Numbering Tab

Profile Manager Tab

Redirect Printing Tab

PDF Printer Driver Configuration

Configuring the Drivers for Users by Administrators during installation

Configuring the Drivers for Users by Administrators

Configuring the Drivers for Users by Administrators on Windows Servers

Save the Administrator’s current settings for Every User

How to modify the printer driver INI file

Description of the INI file values

Frequently Used Configurations

Dropbox - Upload Directly to Dropbox

Google Drive - Upload Directly to Google Drive Folder

OneDrive - Upload Directly to OneDrive

Using Black Ice Printer Drivers with Google Cloud Print

Background printing configuration

Merge Documents

Merge Documents in the background

Split multipage document to single page PDF files

Upload document to SharePoint

Upload to SharePoint with a Single Printing with Agent Printers

Creating Multiple Output File Formats with One Single Printing with Agent Printers

Changing Output Directory

Configuring UNC path for output directory

Configuring Output Directory with Environmental Variables

Configuring output directory for shared Agent Printers using UNC path

Printer Sharing

Post-printing and Application Starting Options

Text Extraction Feature

Text Output Configuration

Configuring Agent (Task) Printers

Email Configuration

How to configure email sending with Gmail

Email Configuration to Multiple Dedicated Email Address

Using Profiles for Common Configurations

How to create a Profile for conversion

Configuring Redirect Printing

Integrating the Black Ice Virtual Printer with Existing POS Systems

Hide the Printer Drivers Tabs and Features on the Printing Preferences

MSI Printer Driver Installer for Large Scale Deployment

Add Bates Numbering as Custom Filename

Enable Event Logging for Auditing and Troubleshooting

Restore the Default Settings of the Printer Driver

How to reconfigure already installed Black Ice printer drivers through Group Policy?

Configure Roaming Domain Users through Group Policy

Disable “Save As” Window

Printing document with different page sizes

INI Configuration for Opening Documents in Memory Using IceViewer

How to add an agent printer for every user to an already installed Black Ice Printer Driver through Group Policy?

Document Converter Configuration Manager

The API - Resource Toolkit (RTK)

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

Memory Requirements

Output Document name length limitation

How to create faxable images for specific Fax Boards?

How to Improve Faxing. Increasing Legibility of Small Text for Faxing

Increasing Image Quality in Monochrome Documents

How to print a document to a fax-compatible image without repaginating the document?

How to print images with exact size in pixels?

How to print using very large paper sizes?

How to print Oil and Gas Well Logs

How can I speed up the printing process?

How can I reduce the file size (KB)?

How to Reduce PDF File Size

How can I force Black Ice printer driver to leave room for a fax header at the top of the page?

Why did the Black Ice Printer Settings changed?

Cannot see all the Printer Driver Agent printers in the Printers and Scanners dialog on Windows 11

Cannot see all the Printer Driver Agent printers in the Devices and Printers dialog on Windows Servers

Does the printer driver support Multi-threading?

Are there any settings for the printer drivers which affect how color images are converted to monochrome?

If I print an Excel document with Excel, in spite of having disabled the start application option, the application is still launched. Why?

Cannot change paper size permanently in Microsoft Office 2010 products

Setting user-based output directory with Environmental Variables

I cannot find my printed documents

Cannot install Printer Driver because a reboot is pending on the system

Activating the Messaging Interface

The Printed PDF document name does not match with the converted File name

The Printed PDF is rotated with 90 degree when printing from Adobe Reader

The Printer Driver DPI (Resolution) changes and will not hold 200 DPI.

Disabling or Enabling Tabs on the Printer Driver Printing Preferences

Preconfigure the Start Application option with a Custom Parameter for MSI installation

Printing PostScript files to Black Ice Printer Drivers

Troubleshooting

How can I troubleshoot printing problems?

Enable Installation Logging

Enable Debug Logging

How to generate a detailed debug log (EDF) file

How can one find the output file when printing from shared printers?

Printer Driver does not generate any output when the filename exceeds the 260 character limit

The Printer Driver is not saving the Printer Settings

SAP printing configuration

How to force the Printer Driver for manual registration by changing the network settings

Printing problem when using Remote Desktop with Terminal Services Easy Print.

Changing the printer name causes the driver to revert to default settings.

I am not able to uninstall the Black Ice Printer Driver - Fail to load dll.

Cannot uninstall the Printer Driver from Control Panel: The uninstall will exit

The printer is not using the selected DPI settings.

The printer driver is not starting my application

Incorrect or gibberish characters when printing from Adobe Reader

The paper size reported by Adobe Acrobat Reader is not the same as the printer driver reports.

Setup Redirect Printing transfers different DPI settings from the physical printer.

Distorted images are put out from MS Word and Excel.

The printing is slow.

Slow Merging Of Documents

The first attempt to install the driver went wrong. After running the setup program again it says "Do you want to completely remove." but the printer driver never seems to be removed. Is there anything that can be done to manually remove the printer driver?

Why does the printer report the [Cannot print directly to the printer error] when printing?

Why is my output document printed upside down?

Why does the printer report an Invalid printer driver data type error when printing?

Microsoft Office Page Size Problem

Microsoft Visio printing problems

When changing the Annotation Text settings from within an application and the annotation text includes fields, the resulting image does not contain the actual value of the fields in the annotation text.

When printing using the RAW data type and using the create faxable image option, the generated image file contains black lines through embedded images

Bypass spooler using Black Ice Printer Drivers

I can't print from the Black Ice printer driver to a mapped network drive using Terminal Services with or without Citrix.

Printing to a mapped network drive does not work.

Printer is not visible for users

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Black Ice Software LLC\ Cannot be Created] message

I Receive a Compatibility Warning when Printing from a Specific Application?

Input field limits in Black Ice Printer Driver

Text extraction does not work with Adobe 11 or higher

Enable Group File

Export/Import Agent Printers during Printer Driver upgrade

Printing webpages from Google Chrome browser results non-searchable PDF documents

Why I receive Abort message during document conversion?

The printer driver uninstaller cannot delete the printer from Devices and Printers on Windows Server 2012 R2.

SharePoint Uploader throws an error: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send

System Error 1612 when uninstalling or updating using the MSI installer

How can I use BiSetProfileFile.exe to configure printer settings for new users?

How to add an agent printer for every user to an already installed Black Ice Printer Driver using a command line?

How to extract text without creating a PDF or TIFF File

How can I adjust the PDF font embedding settings?

How do I create agent printers using the MSI Installer?

How to share the Printer Driver?

What is error code 0x800F0242? (Error code -21464500030)

I get “ERROR: Error in the dInstallBlackIcePrinter function! Setup will exit!”, what should I do?

How do I find Agent Printers on my computer?

How do I generate a log?

How do I generate an installation log for an .EXE installer?

How do I make an installation log for the MSI installer?

How do I generate a log for InstallShield MSI Installers?

How do I print PDFs with different page sizes correctly with Adobe?

How do I know how long it took for the printer driver to convert my document?

What is error code –2146232576?

Why does my printer only print the first page correctly and the rest of the pages are blank?

Why can’t I find my files when printing from shared printers?

How do I install on Citrix VDI?

How do I uninstall using Group Policy?

Where do I find the Event Viewer log?

How to configure printer settings for the System Account?

What can I do if there are more printers/threads installed than the license allows?

I’d prefer not to use Windows Printer Sharing. How can I still create PDFs with the Black Ice printer driver from another system?

Why do I get printing issues when I add a Black Ice printer manually or change the Port settings?

‘Save configuration for every user’ is very slow, is there any way to speed it up?

How to turn off the Windows Protected Print Mode

To disable the Windows Protected Print Mode, follow the steps below.

What to do if the AntiVirus software detects a Virus during installation?

How to append a file when printing?

Can the Printer Driver be installed only for specific users?

Installation cannot add the certificate to the system

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