X1 Printer Drivers Windows 11/10/8/7 & 2022/2019/2016/2012 R2/Citrix Version History

  Version History

DATE: 03-15-2024
Version: 17.61 (revision: 3137)
– The Printer thread count is automatically set to 3 when updating the printer drivers from the old 1 thread installs.
– Increased maximum document name from 64 characters to 255 characters when using the “Print to File” option, or specifying the output filename in the DOCINFO Windows API structure. (#17274)

DATE : 03-10-2024
Version : 17.60 (revision: 3130)
– The End-User Licensed Printer Drivers use 3 threads by default (#17177)
– Added license information and registration button for Agent Printers in the Printer Manager (#16639)
– Renamed “Searchable Compact PDF” file format to “Searchable PDF” (#17205)

DATE : 02-25-2024
Version : 17.55 (revision: 3119)
– Added the “Merge Documents window” feature to the OEM Printer Driver installers (#17202)
– Removed the “Configuration Manager” dialog from the OEM Printer Driver installers (#17203)
– Stability improvement for the Save As window on some systems (#17186)
– More accurate page size calculations, fix for a thin white border appearing on the bottom on certain pages (#17207)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers (#17202, #17196)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.4.759

DATE : 02-15-2024
Version : 17.54 (revision: 3114)
– Stability improvement for the Merge Document Window when printing from AutoCAD (#17167)

DATE : 01-09-2024
Version : 17.53 (revision: 3112)
– Stability improvement for printing certain Excel documents that are printed as multiple print jobs using the Merge Documents Window (#17025)
– Stability improvement for printing from Notepad on Windows 7 systems (#17063)

DATE : 01-04-2024
Version : 17.52 (revision: 3110)
– Fix for duplicated text when printing already searchable documents into the “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format (#16991)
– Stability improvement for the Merge Documents Window when printing certain Excel documents that are printed as multiple print jobs (#17025)
– Stability improvement for printing certain barcode fonts (#17026)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Merge Documents Window (#17015, #17016)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.3.758

DATE: 12-13-2023
Version: 17.51 (revision: 3104)
– Added support for specifying environment variables between % characters (#16958)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Merge Window (#16977)
– Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 13.16.996, Tesseract version 5.3.3 (#14990)
– Updated the Rebex components to version 7.0.8720 (#16660)
– Upgraded the Printer Driver interactive installers (InstallShield) to version 2023 R1

DATE : 12-04-2023
Version : 17.50 (revision: 3097)
– Added document preview to the Merge Documents Window (#16657)
– Added feature to reorder the documents in the Merge Documents Window (#16657)
– The document name (the name of the print job) is used as the PDF title by default if another title is not specified in the PDF settings. (16970)
– Stability improvement for printing certain 1-bit images into 8-bit Grayscale PDF files (#16951)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.2.757

DATE : 11-22-2023
Version : 17.48 (revision: 3091)
– Stability improvement for using end-user-defined characters (with the Private Character Editor) when printing to TIFF or other image formats (#16874)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI 64-bit installers when Microsoft Print Spooler service does not start after the update (#16788)
– Added support for changing the output path using the “Print to file” option when printing (#16951)
– Improved character width calculation accuracy for PDF files and Improved PDF/A compliance (#16645)
– Disabled updating if Printer Driver was registered manually (#15887)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.1.756

DATE: 09-06-2023
Version: 17.45 (revision: 3083)
– Added Print Preview feature with Overlay to the Printer Driver (#16681)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI installers when updating using the PTYPE parameter (#16731)
– Updated the End User Software License Agreements in the interactive installers
– Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers (#16017)
– Removed the Save License information window from the Printer Driver interactive installers (#16735)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.38.326

DATE: 08-02-2023
Version: 17.43 (revision: 3063)
– No changes ( See RTK version history )

DATE: 07-09-2023
Version: 17.42 (revision: 3057)
– Added license agreements of third-party components (#16531, #16532)
– Removed the Doc file format manuals from the Printer Driver installs (#16575)

DATE : 07-04-2023
Version : 17.41 (revision: 3056)
– Fixed handle leak during license checking (#16602)
– Stability improvement for installing the printer drivers on 32-bit systems (#16631)

DATE : 06-16-2023
Version : 17.40 (revision: 3050)
– Added “Prompt the user to select the printer during printing” option to the Redirect Printing feature (#16469)
– Stability improvement for detecting locked files in the Printer Driver installers (#16586)
– Stability improvement for the printer driver uninstalling when the license subscription has expired (#16588)
– Minor user interface improvements to the Header and Footer settings (#16487, #16488)

DATE : 06-06-2023
Version : 17.35 (revision: 3039)
– Added support for Windows ARM systems (#15786, #16460)
– Stability improvement for using the “Upload to M-Files” feature without the “Upload through memory” option (#16508)
– Minor user interface improvement on the manual registration dialog (#16545)
– Stability improvement for changing printer settings from Windows 11 Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Printers & scanners (#16548)
– Stability improvement for writing into the Windows event log when printing without administrative privileges (#16558)
– Updated Document Imaging SDK DLLs to version 13.10.972 (#16468)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.0.750
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.36.324

DATE : 05-23-2023
Version : 17.34 (revision: 3017)
– Added option to place a watermark or stamp to the top left, top right, bottom left or bottom right corner of the pages (#16467)
– Removed page number suffix from the filename of the first printed page when printing into single-page formats (#16464)
– Improved palette handling for 8-bit color and grayscale images (#16462)
– Stability improvement for the 256-bit PDF encryption. In some cases Adobe Reader was unable to open the encrypted document (#16373)
– Minor user interface improvements, the Printer Manager shows the Base Printer name for each Agent Printer (#16443)
– Update Document Imaging DLLs in the Printer Driver from Visual Studio 2015 to 2022 (#16468)
– Updated Document Imaging SDK DLLs to version 13.10.970 (#16468)
– Minor user interface modifications on the Bates Numbering tab (#16513)
– Updated Barcode DLLs to version 7.05.31 (#16441, #16442)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.9.747

DATE : 04-03-2023
Version : 17.33 (revision: 2974)
– Added TLS 1.3 support for the “Upload document to FTP” feature (#16374)
– Stability improvement for the “Force printer DPI” option when printing from applications that try to overwrite private printer settings (#16191)
– Stability improvement for the PDF encryption. In some cases Adobe Reader was unable to open the encrypted document (#16373)
– Stability improvement for the licensing on some systems (Error 41 during activation) (#16423)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.8.746
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.36.322

DATE : 02-01-2023
Version : 17.32 (revision: 2960)
– Stability improvement for the Merge Window in the TIFF/Monochrome printer drivers (#16187)
– Made some of the licensing related error messages clearer (error 35) (#15890)
– Stability improvement for starting the Print Spooler service after installing the Printer Driver using the MSI installers (#16173)
– Writing the Print Spooler status to the Printer Driver MSI installer logs at the end of installation (#16173)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.34.310

DATE: 01-23-2023
Version: 17.31 (revision: 2956)
– Fixed: The MSI installer custom action DLL functions are not called when another Black Ice product is already installed by the MSI installer and the product has a higher version number(Critical update) (16170)

DATE : 01-17-2023
Version : 17.30 (revision: 2953)
– Added support for PDF cover pages (#15953)
– Updated the Cover Pages included in the X1 Printer Drivers (#16034, #16035, #16068)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers (#16015, #16016, #15790)
– Added separate 64-bit Interactive and Microsoft MSI installers for the Printer Drivers (#14415, #15172)
– Stability improvement for removing the Printer Manager during uninstallation when the Printer Manager is running (#16098, #16151)

DATE : 11-28-2022
Version : 17.25 (revision: 2921)
– Enabled the “Rotate Landscape image to Portrait” option even if the orientation is set to Portrait, because some documents may contain mixed landscape and portrait pages (#15933)
– Stability improvements for printing into the “XML with PDF Image”, “XML with BMP”, “XML with JPEG”, “XML with PNG” and “XML with GIF” file formats when group file generation is disabled (#15945)
– Stability improvement for the OCR text output file naming when using TIFF output file format (#15922)
– Stability improvements for saving the HTTP Upload settings in the Printing Preferences, if the provided settings are incorrect (#15811)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager’s Page Layout tab (#15858, #15859, #15860)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers (#15774)
– Added missing fonts information into the Debug log (.EDF file) (#15796)

DATE : 10-11-2022
Version : 17.20 (revision: 2907)
– New OTP (One-Time-Password) Authentication Method added to the HTTP Upload feature (#15602)
– Renamed Page Formatting tab to Page Layout in the Printer Manager, added Paper Size, Orientation, and Resolution options (#15647)

DATE : 09-30-2022
Version : 17.15 (revision: 2901)
– Performance improvements for creating profiles (#15688)
– Minor user interface improvement for the custom file naming (#15646)
– Added the Printer Driver type to the manual registration dialog (#15707)
– Removed the incorrect “The evaluation period has expired” message from the Printer Manager that was shown when the subscription expired (#15764)
– Removed the incorrect “The evaluation period has expired” message from the Printer Manager that was shown when the serial number was disabled (#15770)
– Minor user interface improvements for the evaluation version (#15706, #15724, #15725, #15726, #15727, #15728, #15729)
– Stability improvement for the subscription-based licensing (#15763)

DATE : 08-31-2022
Version : 17.11 (revision: 2881)
– The password dialog is shown immediately when the “Encrypt with password” option is checked on the Save As or Merge dialog (#15635)
– The Printer Manager shows a warning to restart the printing applications after changing settings (#15620)

DATE : 08-29-2022
Version : 17.10 (revision: 2877)
– Added option to prompt the user for PDF password during printing (#15552)
– User interface improvements for the PDF encryption settings (#15612)
– Stability improvement for changing between HTTP and HTTPS upload protocols using the Printer Manager (#15517)
– Improved error handling when uploading documents using HTTP or HTTPS (#15005, #15519)
– Improved logging in the HTTP/HTTPS uploader utility (#15518)
– Added missing error text for error 360 (Unable to open document for merging.) (#15351)
– Added the “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR (.pdf)” file format to the Merge dialog (#15604)

DATE : 08-08-2022
Version : 17.05 (revision: 2857)
-Added support for opening TIFF and PDF documents generated in memory in the Black Ice Tiff Viewer without writing the files to disk (#15408)
-Stability improvement for setting the HTTP Authentication Method using the INI file for the Upload to Web feature (#15384)
-Minor user interface improvements for the Upload to Database feature in the Printer Manager (#15460)
-Renamed the HTTP tab to HTTPS in the Printer Manager (#15456)
-Renamed the FTP tab to FTPS-FTPES in the Printer Manager (#15459)
-Stability improvement for loading HTTP upload settings from profiles that were generated with older printer drivers (version 16.95 or older) (#15506)
-Removed line separator from the HTTP uploader log files (#15513)

DATE : 07-11-2022
Version : 17.00 (revision: 2851)
– Added 256-bit AES encryption support to the PDF output file format (#14685)
– Stability improvement for using SMTP server passwords that are 16 characters or longer (#15346)
– Changes to static license validation for subscription-based licenses (#15332)
– Stability improvement for activation and license checking on certain systems (#15304)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.6.743
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.33.304

DATE : 06-07-2022
Version : 16.95 (revision: 2838)
– The Printer Driver writes an error to the Event Log, if a temporary font cannot be registered (#15248)

DATE : 05-31-2022
Version : 16.94 (revision: 2836)
– Previous SharePoint password is cleared correctly if a profile is loaded which does not include a SharePoint password (#15215)

DATE : 05-26-2022
Version : 16.93 (revision: 2834)
– Changed default log directory for the email sender and all uploader uilities to the “C:\ProgramData\Black Ice Software LLC\\Logs” folder (#15202)
– Changed “Register with different serial” button to “Register with a serial number” on license error dialogs (#15205)

DATE : 05-20-2022
Version : 16.92 (revision: 2831)
– Stability improvement for closing the “Database Variables” window in the Printer Manager Upload To Database tab (#15142)
– Stability improvement for Uploading to Database, when the “Disable Output File” option is enabled (#15180, #15201)
– Stability improvement for printing documents from Windows Service (SESSION 0) or to a Shared Printer, and Email Sending or the Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles, SharePoint uploader is enabled (#15181, #15182, #15183, #15184, #15185)
– The printer driver writes an error to the Event Log, if it is unable to start the Email Sender or the Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles or SharePoint uploader utilities (#15150)
– The printer driver writes an error to the Event Log, if it is unable to write the group file or the temorary group file for any of the utilities (#15157)
– Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.98.926, Tesseract version 5.1.0 (#14990)
– Changed “Register with different serial” button to “Register with a serial number” on license error dialogs (#15205)
– Fixed links on the Printer Manager General tab (#15190, #15192)
– Improved Agent Printer related error messages in the Printer Manager (#14886)
– Fix for the OCR feature getting disabled if a profile file from a 32-bit system is imported to the 64-bit driver or vice versa (#15206)

DATE : 05-04-2022
Version : 16.91 (revision: 2817)
– Stability improvement for “Start Application”, “Save As” and other printer issues when printing from applications installed from MSIX packages on Windows 11. E.g.: Notepad, Paint (#15028)

DATE : 04-20-2022
Version : 16.90 (revision: 2814)
– Fix for license error 350 after registering manually (#15072)
– Corrected copyright year on the Printer Driver About dialogs (#15059, #15060)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver MSI installers on higher scaling modes or high DPI screens (#15063)
– Fix for enabling Content-Based Email Sending using the INI file (#15073)
– Updated Email Sending Utility to version 16.40.2617
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.30.301

DATE : 03-24-2022
Version : 16.89 (revision: 2806)
– Added MO:DCA output file format (#14917)
– Stability improvements for saving HTTP Upload settings in the Printing Preferences (#15038)
– Version checking improvements in the licensing (#14541)
– Fix for inverted IOCA output images (#14917)
– Updated TIFF DLL to version 12.97.919
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.29.300

DATE : 03-18-2022
Version : 16.88 (revision: 2800)
– Added new feature to upload documents to SharePoint through memory (#13296)
– Stability improvement for PDF file output when using content-based file naming (#14998)
– Stability improvement for configuring the HTTP Uploader in the Printing Preferences (#14993)
– Stability improvement for the HTTP Uploader if any parameter contains invalid characters (#14996)
– Showing “License Type” and “Installed Version” in the Printer Manager About tab (#14275)
– Showing the remaining days of the Subscription and Maintenance in the Printer Manager (#14276)
– Minor text changes for the Printer Manager, if the Printer Driver is not registered (#14781)

DATE : 02-25-2022
Version : 16.87 (revision: 2782)
– Switched ColorPlus, Tiff/Monochrome, and PDF Printer Drivers to subscription-based licensing (The X1 Printer Drivers use subscription-based licensing since version 16.65 – 08/16/2021) (#14951)

DATE : 02-21-2022
Version : 16.86 (revision: 2780)
– Added “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format that lets one create searchable PDF files from non-searchable documents, to the PDF and ColorPlus Printer Drivers (#14919)
– Fix for printing documents that are smaller than letter size to the “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR (*.pdf)” file format (#14927)
– Added HTTP Basic Authentication method for the Upload to HTTP feature (#14488)
– The Email Log, Debug Log and SharePoint Log will be automatically configured for the USERPROFILE folder in Printer Manager (#12686, #12687, #12684)
– Stability improvement for starting applications that have a path that is longer 130 characters (#14934, #14935)

DATE : 02-11-2022
Version : 16.85 (revision: 2770)
– Added option to automatically remove blank pages from the printed document (#14183)
– Fix for using the “Print page(s) inverted” feature with printer redirection (#14894)
– Fix for using the “Print page(s) inverted” feature with image file formats other than TIFF (#14908)
– Fixed broken PDF output when using the “Use filename from page content” option (#14902)
– Fixed incorrect error message in the Printer Manager if the license is invalid (#14914)

DATE : 02-04-2022
Version : 16.82 (revision: 2765)
– Added new features to upload Text and OCR along with the printed document to FTP (#14856)
– Added new features to upload documents through memory to FTP (#13295)
– User interface improvements for the Upload to FTP feature by showing the supported FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP security modes (#14883)
– Improved error reporting when using the Merge dialog (#14726)
– The Printer Driver writes an error message into the Windows Event Log, if the “Start Application” feature is enabled, but the application could not be started. (#8894)
– When changing file formats using the API, the Printer Driver automatically selects a color depth supported by the file format. (#14833)

DATE: 01-14-2022
Version: 16.81 (revision: 2750)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers (#14792, #14793)

DATE: 12-30-2021
Version: 16.80 (revision: 2748)
– Added “Do not show this message again” checkbox to the “Are you sure you would like to start merging” message box (#14573)
– Added a new feature to upload the Text Output to the database using the Upload To Database feature (#14724)
– Stability improvement for opening the print job properties from the Print Queue window (Error 400) (#14566)
– Renamed the “Save configuration” button to “Save configuration for every user” on the Printer Manager Administrator tab (#14611)
– Made error message clearer in case of a connection error during updating the Printer Driver (Error 19) (#14748)
– Improved performance of opening the PDF Settings Font page (#14684)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.27.294

DATE : 10-29-2021
Version : 16.75 (revision: 2727)
– Added “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format that lets one create searchable PDF files from non-searchable documents (#14482)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.5.739

DATE : 10-15-2021
Version : 16.72 (revision: 2722)
– Automatically optimizing the Photo Quality (Dithering) settings for faxing when the “Create Faxable Image” option is used. (#14479)
– Added “204×196 DPI Fine Fax Downscaled” option, to make small text in certain documents bolder for faxing. (#14479)

DATE : 10-08-2021
Version : 16.71 (revision: 2720)
– Added Floyd-Steinberg and Jarvis-Judice-Ninke high quality (larger file size) and low quality (smaller file size) dithering (#14457)
– Removed “Custom resolution” item from the list of resolutions. Custom resolutions can be added by clicking the Edit Resolutions button. (#14440)
– Updated BiImgUser.dll to version 12.84.843
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.4.737
– Tested with Windows 11. No upgrade required.

DATE: 09-22-2021
Version: 16.70 (revision: 2714)
– Added Ordered Clustered dithering method to the printer drivers (#14338)
– Stability improvement for printing with the Euclid Symbol font (#14272)
– Added special Application Layer licensing for VDI installers (#14358)
– Manual registrations are limited to the maintenance/subscription expiration date (#14264)
– Removed unnecessary message box in Printer Driver MSI installers when canceling the manual registration (#14314)
– Stability improvements for the Printer Manager, if the Print Spooler service is not running (#14362)
– Stability improvements for the Printer Driver MSI installer, if the Print Spooler service cannot be started (#14427)
– Updated BiImgUser.dll to version 12.84.827
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.2.734
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.23.286

DATE : 08-16-2021
Version : 16.65 (revision: 2699)
– Added feature to the printer drivers to trim whitespace around page content (#14188)
– Added new Page Formatting tab to the Printer Manager (#14305)
– Switched X1 Printer Drivers to subscription based licensing
– Improved performance of online license validation (#13808)
– Stability improvement for registration and license validation on systems that use Bluetooth Network Connections (#13979)
– Decreased file size and increased quality of 8-bit grayscale PDF output (#13873)
– Stability improvement for printing into image formats with the “Enable advanced printing features” option disabled (#14217)
– Added suffix to output file names when using the “Exact filename” option without the “Overwrite the existing file” option and the output file already exists (#13864)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.1.732
– Updated JPEG DLL to version 12.82.806
– Updated TIFF DLL to version 12.83.819
– Updated eLicense dll version to 6.22.280

DATE: 07-13-2021
Version: 16.60 (revision: 2677)
– Performance improvements for the Text Output (#14054)
– Fixed help links on the PDF Settings dialog and in the Printer Manager (#14207, #14208)

DATE: 07-12-2021
Version: 16.59 (revision: 2676)
– Fix for copy-pasting hyphen (-) characters from the generated PDF files (#14143)
– Added “Add White Background to Page” PDF option to turn on or off the drawing of the white background in the PDF output (#14147)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.0.731

DATE: 07-09-2021
Version: 16.58 (revision: 2673)
– Improved drawing of arcs in the PDF output (#14077)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.9.728

DATE: 07-05-2021
Version: 16.57 (revision: 2671)
– Removed invisible white background from the PDF output (#14147)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.8.727

DATE: 06-17-2021
Version: 16.56 (revision: 2668)
– Printing speed optimizations when Text Output is enabled (#14048)
– Added Printer Driver name and version to the installer’s dialog titles (#12222)
– Removed large invisible rectangle from the PDF output (#14078)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.7.726

DATE : 05-14-2021
Version : 16.55 (revision: 2665)
– Added options for setting the list of resolutions on the user interface or in the INI file (#13133)
– Faster printing for image formats (#13862)
– Minor user interface improvements (#13866, #13967)
– Stability improvement for PDF encryption where PDF files could not be opened when some specific passwords where used (#13987)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.6.725
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-19-2021
Version : 16.48 (revision: 2647)
– Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808, KB5000809, KB5000822 or KB5000848.

DATE : 03-11-2021
Version : 16.46 (revision: 2644)
– Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808 or KB5000848. (Fix for printing blank or broken pages.)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver MSI installers (#13786)

Version History:
DATE : 03-02-2021
Version : 16.45 (revision: 2642)
– Added Administrator option to the Printer Manager for configuring the visible Printing Preferences Tabs for all users (#13638)
– Added Administrator option to the Printer Manager for exporting the current Printer Driver Configuration to INI file (#13638)
– Fixed saving the Redirect Printing “Use Number of Copies”, “Collated/Uncollated pages”, “Scale to physical printable area or page” and “Print document as bitmap” options to Profile (.bip) and INI files (#13769)

DATE: 02-18-2021
Version: 16.41 (revision: 2636)
– Stability improvement for saving settings for all users in the Printer Manager and DCCM (#13650, #13653, #13703)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Manager (#13647)
– Improvements for searching for M-Files values (for example Customers, Documents) when uploading to M-Files (#13681)
– Fixed installation on Windows Server 2019 Essentials systems. (#13713)

DATE : 02-01-2021
Version : 16.40 (revision: 2628)
– Redesigned email sending window, added text formatting features (#13095)
– Minor user interface improvement for the “Exact filename from the registry” and “Exact filename from the INI file” filename generation options (#13579)
– Added option to the Redirect Printing feature to use the default printer of the user (#13610)
– Stability improvements for saving in the Printer Manager, if the email sending is set to SMTP, but the SMTP settings are not configured (#13014, #13635)
– Improved PDF output, fixed upside down images or pages in some rare cases (#13616)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.4.723
– Updated manuals

DATE : 01-12-2021
Version : 16.35 (revision: 2603)
– Added content-based file naming feature (#12628)
– Added option to remove specified text from the document name (#13518)
– Added Maintenance/Support contract information to the Printer Manager General Tab (#13479)
– Changed the file description and Copyright information of the Printer Driver Interactive installer (#13109)

DATE : 01-05-2021
Version : 16.30 (revision: 2589)
– Added the “Deactivate License” feature to the Printer Manager (#13455)
– Added Maintenance information to the Printer Manager -> General tab (#13471)
– Updated registration through Proxy server – Added “Test Proxy Connection” button to the Proxy configuration window to help troubleshoot connection problems during registration (#13327)
– Showing the number of Agent Printers of the selected printer in the Printer Manager Agent Printer tab (#13330)
– Enabled the “Embed licensed fonts” PDF option by default (#13309)
– Added Sorting and Searching feature to Printer Manager Agent Printers (#13326)
– Minor improvements for Upload to M-Files to display the upload window on the top (#13339)
– Stability improvement for SharePoint uploading if the printer driver is set to open the output PDF with ABBYY PDF (#13331)
– Minor improvements to display the specific username, when saving the printer settings for all users fails (#13369)
– Stability improvement for the Printer Driver MSI installer when the Print Spooler service is not running (#13370)
– Stability improvement for licensing, preventing multiple registration windows to be opened at the same time (Fixes error 65550 issue) (#13328)
– Added “Upload through memory” option to the Printer Manager HTTP, Database and M-Files uploading tabs (#13297, #13298, #13330)
– Changed some licensing related error messages to be more meaningful (#13452)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.18.259
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-16-2020
Version : 16.28 (revision: 2558)
– Added filter and search feature for M-Files Multiple Select properties to be more user friendly (#13143)
– Improved licensing (#13144)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-09-2020
Version : 16.27 (revision: 2552)
– Added support for paper sizes larger than 3276 mm (#13110, #13123)
– New M-Files feature to allow displaying error messages in Silent Mode when uploading (#13116)
– New M-Files feature to allow displaying success messages in Silent Mode when uploading (#13115)
– New M-Files feature to use the original filename in Silent Mode (#13121)
– Improvements for M-Files to display the destination Vault name when uploading (#13117)
– Simplified M-Files Uploading: Users only have to configure the Vault, Document Class and Properties when uploading (#13118)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 09-25-2020
Version : 16.26 (revision: 2541)
– Added raw text datatype support to handle print jobs from legacy software systems (#12840)

DATE : 09-18-2020
Version : 16.25 (revision: 2522)
– Added new feature to upload documents to M-Files (#13044)
– Improvements for vertical positioning of characters in PDF files (#13001)
– Added “Print document as bitmap” option to the “Redirect printing” feature (#12950)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.3.720

DATE : 09-15-2020
Version : 16.22 (revision: 2512)
– Changing the printing preferences for Administrators also change the printer settings for the SYSTEM user (#12936, #13023, #13027)
– Stability improvement for applying printer settings in the Printer Manager (#13037)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-27-2020
Version : 16.21 (revision: 2506)
– Stability improvement for drawing transparent images in certain PDF/A documents (#12923)
– The “Upload to FTP” feature only available in the X1 Printer Drivers (#12922, #12924)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver uninstallation (#12824)
– Minor user interface improvements for Printer Driver MSI installer (#12820)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.2.719
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-12-2020
Version : 16.20 (revision: 2499)
– Stability improvement for appending to PDF documents saved by Adobe Reader (#12360, #12878)
– Stability improvement for the FrameRgn GDI function in the PDF output (#12860)
– Stability improvement for saving into Linearized PDF format (#12868)
– Improved image quality in certain non-letter sized PDF documents (#12870)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.1.718
– Updated manuals

DATE : 07-24-2020
Version : 16.18 (revision: 2497)
– Stability improvement for printers disappearing when registering using certain serial keys (#12831)
– Major performance improvements when opening the Printer Manager on certain systems (#12825)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 07-21-2020
Version : 16.17 (revision: 2494)
– Adding Printers or Ports automatically when the driver is registered (#12795)
– Added the TLS 1.2 support to the Upload to FTP feature (#12761)
– The “Upload document to Web” feature only available in the X1 Printer Drivers (#12717)
– Stability improvement for selecting the conversion profile in Printer Manager, when installing the Printer Driver with the MSI installer for Agent printers using APLIST parameter (#12006)
– Renamed the “Document Converter Configuration Manager” to DCCM in the Printer Driver Server installers (#12739, #12740)
– Added the DCCM to the InstallShield MSI installer for the Printer Driver Server (#11559)
– Minor user interface improvements for the DCCM (#12710, #12714)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager Agent Printer tab (#12724)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager General tab (#12810, #12822)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Driver installers (#12672, #12673, #12627)
– Removed content based email sending options from the Printer Driver’s user interface (#12764)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 06-25-2020
Version : 16.16 (revision: 2476)
– Stability improvement for special OEM builds – installing a large number of parallel printer drivers on a single system (#12637)
– Stability improvement including multiple email address in the content based email sending (automatically removing line breaks from email addresses) (#12655)
– Added command line Proxy server parameters for the Printer driver MSI Uninstallers (#12529)
– Added HTTP Upload feature to the Printer Manager (#12570)
– Added environment variable support for HTTP Upload feature parameters (#12213)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 06-08-2020
Version : 16.15 (revision: 2463)
– Stability improvement for retrying registration in the Printer Manager in case of a connection error (#12380)
– Stability improvement for removing both 32 bit and 64 bit drivers when driver package information is missing from the registry (#12441)
– Stability improvement for listing agent printers in Printer Manager (#12445, #12446, #12506)
– Stability improvement for saving settings for all users in Printer Manager and DCCM (#12550, #12552)
– Stability improvement for listing printers in the Printer Manager (#12438, #12599)
– Stability improvement for trying to edit or delete Agent Printers that are currently printing (#12601, #12603)
– Stability improvement for detecting Black Ice Printers (#12597, #12598)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager (#12507, #12547, #12522, #12602)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Driver interactive installer (#12600)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 04-28-2020
Version : 16.12 (revision: 2446)
– Stability improvement for the Merge Window when printing in multiple document (#12321)
– Stability improvement for printing from BarTender (#12308)
– Changed file format in the “PDF common” profile files to “Compact PDF” (#12314)
– Stability improvement for the ApplyProfileFile function of the BlackIceDEVMODE.dll in the RTK, on 64 bit systems (#12303, #12305)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 04-21-2020
Version : 16.10 (revision: 2437)
– PDF Output size optimizations (#12293)
– Added progress dialog when printing using the Save As dialog (#11903)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver installation when an older version of the printer driver exists on the system (#12225)
– Stability improvement for setting default output directory for all printers during multi-printer installation (#12280)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.9.714

DATE : 04-02-2020
Version : 16.04 (revision: 2425)
– Added license type (Special Edition or Regular) detection to installers (#12249)
– Updated eLicense dll version to 6.15.251

DATE : 03-25-2020
Version : 16.03 (revision: 2418)
– Added feature to the OEM Release and Demo installers to uninstall the Printer Driver without restarting the system (#12236, #12240)

DATE : 03-24-2020
Version : 16.02 (revision: 2414)
– Set default Color Depth of PDF and ColorPlus Printer Drivers to 24 bit (#12226)
– Stability improvement for appending Image PDF files (#12060, #12224)
– Stability improvement for detecting older Printer Driver files during installation (#12231)
– Stability improvement for handling settings when printing from Microsoft Word after Updating on some systems (#12228)
– Stability improvement for license checking while having intermittent internet connection issues (#12201)
– Updated eLicesnse.dll to version 6.14.245
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 02-25-2020
Version : 16.01 (revision: 2404)
– Stability improvement for output directory access checking in the Printer Drivers (#12146)
– Stability improvement for saving into JPEG LAB format (#12174)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 02-19-2020
Version : 16.00 (revision: 2396)
– For shared printers, output directory is now set on the Host computer by default, added option to set the directory on the Client (#11726)
– Stability improvement for IPP printer sharing (#12101)
– Stability improvement for setting printer redirection for Agent Printers using the MSI installer (#12100)
– Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.77.752, stability improvement for the OCR feature on systems without AVX support (#12102)
– Added the “Embed Windows fonts” value to the “PDF Settings” section in the printer driver configuration INI files (#12122)
– Stability improvement for application starter utility not starting in some cases (#12100)
– Added missing entries to the PDF Settings section of the default Printer Driver INI files (#12124)
– The AppStarterEXEName INI file key is now automatically filled by the installers (#12133)
– Stability improvement for updating ColorPlus Server 32 bit driver package on 64 bit systems (for printer sharing to 32 bit systems) (#12148)
– Removed the Visual Studio 2005 redistribution files from the Printer Driver installers (#12144)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 01-16-2020
Version : 15.99 (revision: 2370)
– Stability improvement for redirecting printing from a shared Black Ice Printer to other shared printers (#11148)
– Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.76.747, Tesseract release July 7 2019 – V4.1.0 (#12076)
– Updated version of PDF files produced by the Printer Driver to PDF version 1.7 (#11931)
– Stability improvement for saving settings for all users in the Printer Manager and DCCM (#12074, #12078, #12087)
– Stability improvement for detecting supported Black Ice Printers in the Printer Manager (#11322)
– Minor user interface improvements in the Printing Preferences (#11937)
– Minor user interface improvement for uninstallation using the MSI installers (#11044)
– Minor user interface improvement for license activation (#12051)
– Stability improvement for error code 304 in the Printer Driver MSI uninstallation (#12070)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.8.712
– Updated Image PDF DLLs to version 12.77.750
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 12-09-2019
Version : 15.98 (revision: 2358)
– Minor user interface improvements for Upload To Database (#11938, #11863)
– Displaying the Selected ODBC Data Source Driver name in Upload To Database (#11862)
– Minor user interface improvements for Printer Driver MSI installers when an incompatible installation was detected (#11949)
– Stability improvement for removing registry entries when shared printers are removed (#11945, #11970, #11971)
– Minor user interface improvement for shared printers (#11973)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 11-21-2019
Version : 15.97 (revision: 2344)
– Added “Upload OCR and hOCR” feature to Upload To Database (#11898)
– Added “Delete printed document after uploading” feature to Upload To Database (#11870)
– Added “Display error message in silent mode” feature to Upload To Database (#11871)
– Added INI file option to not write the “Number of Copies” key to the Group file (#11905)
– Stability improvements for Upload to Database, when trying to upload a document without password (#11913)
– Stability improvements for Upload to Database logging (#11908, #11910, #11915)
– Minor user interface improvements for Printer Manager, and Upload To Database (#11907, #11911, #11916, #11918, #11920, #11921, #11914, #11930, #11932)
– Stability improvements for Upload to Database when updating the Printer Driver (#11924)
– Improved Upload To Database to support Environment Variables for the log file (#11912)
– Stability improvements for Printer Manager update when the Printer Manager is opened (#11923)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 11-11-2019
Version : 15.96 (revision: 2327)
– Added Logging capability for Upload To Database (#11869)
– Improved Upload To Database to allow users to save ODBC settings without password, and enter the credentials when uploading a document (#11872, #11873)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Upload To Database (#11868, #11848)
– Stability improvements when the Database settings are not configured in Printing Preferences, but one tries to print and upload a document (#11882)
– Stability improvements for Upload To Database, when printing the document to memory (#11885)
– Stability improvement for the “Use first email address from page content” feature
– Updated manuals

DATE : 11-06-2019
Version : 15.95 (revision: 2319)
– Added feature to Upload documents to database (#11838)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-29-2019
Version : 15.91 (revision: 2299)
– Stability improvement for the Merge window getting stuck on some systems (#11801)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Driver installers (#11752, #11751, #10039)
– Added the maintenance expiration date checking to the Printer Driver Server update condition (#11799)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver registration (Error code 57) (#11809)
– Updated eLicense.dll version to 6.10.235
– Improvements for online license checking (computer validation for all users) (#11811)
– Stability improvement for using the Merge Document window with the Start Application feature (application started multiple times)

DATE : 10-09-2019
Version : 15.90 (revision: 2288)
– Added progress dialog when merging documents using the Merge Documents window (#11642)
– Stability improvement for content based email sending and mail merge for certain documents (#11732)
– Improved character positioning in the PDF output for some documents (#11725)
– Improved page size accuracy of the PDF output (#11618)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.7.711
– Updated manuals

DATE : 09-05-2019
Version : 15.85 (revision: 2280)
– Added the Printer Driver Update feature to Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers. Update compatible from (14.70) (#11661)
– “pmd” extension is removed automatically from the document name (#11680)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-26-2019
Version : 15.80 (revision: 2273)
– Added option to specify the printed pages in the Printing Preferences (#10347)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager (#11634, #11635)
– Changed the Printer Drivers to write lowercase extensions by default, added INI file option to write uppercase extensions (#11635)
– Changed default file format of PDF and ColorPlus Printer Drivers to “Compact PDF” (#11643)
– Changed default text output format to “Text with Layout” (#11644)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-16-2019
Version : 15.75 (revision: 2266)
– Added the Printer Driver Update feature to Printer Driver interactive installers. Update compatible from (14.70)
– Added the Printer Driver Update feature to Printer Driver MSI installers. Update compatible from (14.70) (#9544)
– Stability improvement for using the OCR feature in high resolution on 32 bit systems (#11586)
– Stability improvement for removing the content based/mail merge tags from the Text Output (#11589)
– Minor user interface improvements (#11599, #11600)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 07-29-2019
Version : 15.70 (revision: 2254)
– Added option to the Printer Manager to save settings for all users (#11527)
– Added “Custom layout” option to the Text Output (#11318)
– Improved locking of the output TIFF file during printing to prevent applications from opening the file too early (Error 63 issue) (#11530)
– Stability improvement for using the “Use Embedded Text” barcode feature with “Redirect Printing”, OCR or Text Output (#11555)
– Added warning message to the printing preferences window to restart printing applications (#11529)
– Added the OCRTARGETDIR parameter to Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers (#11422)
– Added the PMTARGETDIR parameter to Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers (#11423)
– Added CMS-1500 form to Cover Page Filler
– Stability improvement for using the owerwrite option with the Cover Page Filler (#11560)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.5.709
– Stability improvement for scaling in some objects in PDF format (#11478)
– Improvements in rendering underlined text in PDF format (#11524)
– Improvements drawing of images in PDF format in high resolution (#11525)
– Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.71.732
– Stability improvement for the “Closing filter” feature on some systems (#11533)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 07-05-2019
Version : 15.65 (revision: 2237)
– Updated the Cover Page Filler to version 1.05.343
– Added the Barcode feature
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-14-2019
Version : 15.62 (revision: 2231)
– Added “Do not show this window again” option to the Save As dialog. (#11427)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI installers on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (#11428)

DATE : 06-07-2019
Version : 15.60 (revision: 2226)
– Added Cover Page Filler to X1 and OEM Printer Drivers (#10914)
– Stability improvement for detecting administrator privileges in end user printer driver installers (#11305)
– Updated the digital signature certificate in installers.
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 05-30-2019
Version : 15.56 (revision: 2216)
– Stability improvement for printing custom (not listed) paper sizes (e.g.: printing from Microsoft Outlook) (#11374)

DATE : 05-28-2019
Version : 15.55 (revision: 2211)
– Added support for the “Generate output in memory” feature to HTTP uploading. (Uploading document without writing the document to disk) (#11306)
– Stability improvement for detecting administrator privileges in end user printer driver installers (#11305)
– Updated the digital signature certificate on software components.
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.04.225
– Stability improvement for registration on Korean systems. (#11202)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 04-09-2019
Version : 15.53 (revision: 2140)
– Changed HTTP uploader window titles to use the printer name
– Added second custom parameter to the HTTP upload feature
– User interface improvements for the Printer Manager Barcode tab (#10723)
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printing Preferences dialog (#10666, #10667, #10668, #10669, #10678)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.03.224
– Stability improvement for registration on Windows XP (#10955)
– Added transferable license handling for special installers (#10275)

DATE : 03-04-2019
Version : 15.52 (revision: 2092)
– Stability improvement for proxy configuration when installing the driver using the Printer Driver Microsoft MSI installer (#10633)
– Stability improvement for licensing on 64 bit systems
– Updated 64bit eLicense.dll to version 6.0.2.221

DATE : 02-18-2019
Version : 15.51 (revision: 2086)
– Stability improvement for detecting state of the print spooler service in the Printer Manager (#10476)
– Stability improvement for using the Merge Window with multi-port printers (#10468, #10498)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver Microsoft MSI installer when the user’s name contains space characters (#10525)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installer when installing font file for OCR (#10526)
– Stability improvement for the OCR feature in Printer Drivers installed with the Microsoft MSI installer (#10550)

DATE: 02-06-2019
Version: 15.50 (revision: 2079)
– Added “Force paper size” option to the Printer Drivers (#10442)
– Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.70.644, Tesseract release October 29 2018 – V4.0.0 (#10335)
– Added Outlook 2019 support (#10379)
– Updated Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook to version 9.1.3401
– Stability improvement for the “Generate output in memory” memory feature, disabled output directory checking (#10440)
– Stability improvement for missing images or blank pages in the output PDF files when certain raster operations are used during printing (#10432)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI installer for pressing enter key in registration window (#10456)
– Added Print Image Watermark option to the Save As dialog (#10399)
– Stability improvement for using the “Overwrite the exisiting document” option with Custom file naming (#10295)
– Stability improvement for detecting state of the print spooler service in the Printer Manager (#10458)
– Added “Number of Copies” key to the group file (#10013)
– Added INI file option to configure the timeout value of the Merge Window (#10470)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.1.704
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 01-14-2019
Version : 15.45 (revision: 2065)
– Added Compact PDF file format (#9815, #10327)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 3.0.0.703
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 01-14-2019
Version : 15.42 (revision: 2063)
– Added the Multi-port feature to Licensed printer driver Microsoft and InstallShield MSI installers (#10333, #10334)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 01-07-2019
Version : 15.41 (revision: 2054)
– Supporting Windows Server 2019
– Added the Multi-port feature to Licensed printer driver installers (#10287)
– Stability improvement for the “Send printed document in email” feature, Outlook window appearing behind the printing application (#10331)
– Stability improvement for printing documents containing very large number of images in parallel to PDF format (#10320)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.9.701
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 10-05-2018
Version : 15.30 (revision: 2026)
– Significant change in how the printer driver is configured through the INI file. The changes will affect every OEM printer driver installation or any installation that uses the MSI installer with the INI file option. The binary “Flags”, “LaunchFlags”, “AnnotationFlags” and “WatermarkFlags” keys are replaced with easy to use key words (#10025)
– Added option to Profile Manager tab to export current settings as a configuration INI file for customized installations (#9978)
– Added “Display email sent successfully message” and “Display error message” options to the email settings (#10080)
– Stability improvement for using environment variables in Header, Footer and Annotation text (#9929, #10027)
– Stability improvement for End-User PDF printer drivers MSI installer for using PDF/A file format (#10085)
– The file format drop down lists is made larger to show all the file formats without scrolling (#10074)
– Minor user interface improvements (#9733)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 08-27-2018
Version : 15.25 (revision: 2003)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 08-23-2018
Version : 15.25 (revision: 2002)
– Added Text Watermark and Text Stamp features for the Watermark/Stamp Tab of the Printer Drivers (#9928)
– Stability improvement for handling 32 bit PNG images as watermark (#10010)
– Added support for Unicode output file names for all formats (#9888)
– Stability improvement for handling new line characters in content based email sending (#9608)
– Minor user interface improvements (#9880)
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.61.612 (#9888)
– Added multi-printer support for Printer Driver MSI and InstallShield MSI installers (#9882)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI uninstallation when the network card is disabled (#9816)
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI uninstallation when the internet connection is disabled (#9723)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 07-13-2018
Version : 15.21 (revision: 1982)
– Changed how the stamp appears when visibility is set to 100% (#9848)
– Disabled output directory access check when the output is disabled (#9827)
– Stability improvement for handling file extensions in the Save As dialog (#9503)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 07-11-2018
Version : 15.20 (revision: 1979)
– Added Stamp feature for the Watermark Tab of the Printer Drivers
– Disabled output directory access check when the output is generated in memory (#9827)
– Stability improvement for InstallShield MSI when installing with serial number (#9840, #9839)
– Minor user interface update for End-User printer drivers installer (#9823)
– Minor user interface update for End-User printer driver MSI installers (#9750)
– Stability improvement for aborting installation of the End-User printer driver MSI installers in case of registration errors (#4950)
– Stability improvement for text output when printing certain EMF corrupted documents (#9843)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.7.697
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 06-25-2018
Version : 15.15 (revision: 1972)
– Simplified error handling when uninstalling End-User printer drivers
– Stability improvement for error 305 during uninstallation of the End-User printer drivers using the MSI uninstallers
– Improvements for serial number checking for MSI installers
– Stability improvement for MSI uninstallers when aborting the uninstallation
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.6.696
– Improved bitmap merging for PDF documents
– Stability improvement for dithering when printing from certain applications
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 06-12-2018
Version : 15.10 (revision: 1964)
– Stability improvement for handling registration errors during Printer Driver MSI installation
– Stability improvement for blank pages, when printing from certain applications and redirecting the output to another printer
– Stability improvement for Text Output when using the “Add font information, position and style” formatting style
– Added “Line Adjustment” INI file option for text output
– Added “Embed Identity encoded CID fonts only” option to PDF font options
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.4.692
– Stability improvement for font embedding when printing certain documents
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 04-25-2018
Version : 15.04 (revision: 1946)
– Stability improvement for the DLL version check

DATE : 04-20-2018
Version : 15.03 (revision: 1944)
– Added option to DCCM to hide certain features from User on the printing preferences dialog.
– Pages Per Sheet (N-Up)
– Send printed document in email
– Upload to FTP
– Upload to SharePoint©
– Upload to Web
– Tooltips
– Added DLL version check for the Printer Drivers
– Updated manuals

DATE : 04-10-2018
Version : 15.02 (revision: 1936)
– Added “Pages Per Sheet” (N-Up) feature to the Printer Drivers
– Added INI file options to hide resolutions from the user interface
– Fixed Print Preview appearing color when 8 bit grayscale is selected
– Changed default fax resolution to “Fine fax compatibility”
– Stability improvement for closing email sender application when the SMTP server name is invalid
– Updated elicense.dll to version 5.15.207
– Manual registration window was not shown on some connection errors (43 and 44)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-28-2018
Version : 15.01 (revision: 1923)
– Stability improvement for Agent Printers for evaluation/demo period License checking

DATE : 03-09-2018
Version : 15.01 (revision: 1915)
– Performance improvements for the Text Output
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.2.690
– Fixed images appearing black when printing certain documents

DATE : 03-07-2018
Version : 15.00 (revision: 1910)
– Added warning message to Printer Manager when remaining evaluation/demo period expires
– Stability improvement for HTTP upload test when “Delete printed document after uploading” is checked
– Added “Send each page as separate email” option to email sending
– Changed priority of emails from Low to Normal when silent email sending is enabled
– Performance improvement on some systems when the “Start Application” feature is used
– Stability improvement for the “Use first email address from page content” feature
– “[Read-Only]” text is removed automatically from the document name
– Disabled the Outlook security popup window when sending emails
– Added extended logging to Printer driver MSI installers
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.14.206
– Stability improvements for version checking
– Fixed error 37 during registration
– Updated manuals

DATE: 01-05-2018
Version: 14.99 (revision: 1883)
– Stability improvement for text output even when the printed page contains no text
– Added option to the HTTP upload feature to display error messages even in silent mode
– Added custom error to HTTP upload feature, to allow customers to show personalized error messages (Error code 621)
– Fixed “Merge Documents” window opening behind the printing application
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.1.688
– Stability improvement for calculating character widths for certain documents
– Updated elicense.dll to version 5.12.202
– Made some error messages clearer
– Licensing improvements
– Updated manuals

DATE : 11-29-2017
Version : 14.99 (revision: 1868)
– Fixed Save As dialog opening behind the printing application
– Added “Number of Copies” parameter to the “Start Application” feature
– Added “Closing filter” option for the OCR to improve recognition
– Added compatibility option to Printer Driver MSI installers (NPI parameter) for certain Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems
– Added demo registration for printer driver InstallShield MSI installers
– Added registration dialog for printer driver MSI installers
– Added registration dialog for printer driver InstallShield MSI installers
– Updated manuals

DATE : 11-08-2017
Version : 14.99 (revision: 1851)
– Stability improvement for Custom File Naming preview
– Stability improvement for using Custom File Naming with Bates Number and the “Save each page as separate file” option
– Improved text rendering when printing to 1 bit image formats with dithering
– Added INI file option to control Text Antialiasing
– Minor user interface improvements in the Printer Manager
– Stability improvement for the “Add space in records” Text Output option
– Stability improvement for printer driver MSI installers on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-25-2017
Version : 14.99 (revision: 1838)
– Added the TextData event to Print to Memory samples
– Disabled the Change and Repair features in Programs and Features for the MSI install samples
– Disabled the Change and Repair features in Programs and Features for the MSI install samples with driver package
– Disabled the Change and Repair features in Programs and Features for the WIX install samples
– Disabled the Change feature in Programs and Features for the C# and VB.NET install samples
– Stability Improvement for C# and VB.NET install samples for building with Visual Studio 2005
– Stability Improvement for C# and VB.NET install samples for installing with silent mode
– Added the “Edit Property Table” script for MSI and WIX install samples
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-09-2017
Version : 14.98 (revision: 1830)
– Added hOCR output format to OCR
– Added option to generate OCR output in memory
– The printer name, job ID and document name parameters are passed to every message capture event
– Added option to Text Extraction that allows detecting space characters inside text records
– Stability improvement for Text Extraction for documents containing Arabic text and numbers
– Added INI file option to turn off the file access check when appending using the save as dialog
– Stability improvement for handling locked files in the Printer Driver installer
– Minor user interface improvements for Printer Driver Server installer
– Stability improvement for Photo Quality (dithering) preview on the Printing Preferences File Formats tab in the TIFF/Monochrome Printer Drivers
– Updated elicense.dll to version 5.10.199
– Made some error messages clearer
– Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.57.589
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-07-2017
Version : 14.97 (revision: 1807)
– Added the ability for End-User printer drivers to be shared between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems
– Updated the installer to Package Install
– Added Bates Number field to Custom File Naming
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.9.0.686
– Fixed drawing opaque background for some text records
– Updated manuals

DATE: 07-25-2017
Version: 14.96 (revision: 1799)
– The “Enable Merge Window=1” INI file option automatically enables merging by setting the BLF_APPEND flag
– Updated manuals

DATE : 07-21-2017
Version : 14.95 (revision: 1791)
– Fixed page number in text output appearing in the end of the previous line instead of a new line
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.9.685
– Stability improvement for drawing patterns

DATE : 07-19-2017
Version : 14.94 (revision: 1790)
– Barcode text used for regular expressions now matches the Printer Driver’s text output more closely
– Removed extension from document names when printing pdf documents
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.8.684
– Improved rendering of lines with dash-dot-dot pattern

DATE : 07-18-2017
Version : 14.93 (revision: 1789)
– Fixed inserting unnecessary space characters after the Bates Numbering Prefix

DATE : 07-17-2017
Version : 14.92 (revision: 1788)
– Stability improvement for appending documents using the save As dialog

DATE : 07-07-2017
Version : 14.92 (revision: 1784)
– Minor user interface improvements for registration
– Fixed Tooltips not appearing on the user interface when the Printing Preferences dialog is opened from Printer Manager or some other applications
– Added option to the Printer Manager to enable or disable the Merge Window
– Stability improvement for the custom file naming
– Added Date and Time option to custom file naming
– Stability improvement for printing EMF documents from shared printers
– Stability improvement for uninstallations – restarting the printer spooler service to avoid system restarts
– Fixed Document Converter Configuration Manager shortcut
– Added Cancel button for the waiting dialog of Document Converter Configuration Manager
– Extended logging of Document Converter Configuration Manager
– Stability improvement for the Delete files after uploading to SharePoint option
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-19-2017
Version : 14.91 (revision: 1768)
– Added option to change the height of linear barcodes
– Minor user interface improvements for registration

DATE : 06-15-2017
Version : 14.90 (revision: 1767)
– Stability improvement for opening the Printing Preferences window from Printer Manager if it is already opened for another user
– Stability improvement for barcode value validation in the Printer Manager for Agent Printers
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printing Preferences and Merge Documents windows
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-14-2017
Version : 14.90 (revision: 1763)
– Minor stability and user interface improvements for the Merge Documents window
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-13-2017
Version : 14.90 (revision: 1762)
– Added Merge Window option to End-User printer drivers
– Added the Printer Driver INF Package files to the Distribution directory of the OEM Release Printer Driver installers
– Stability improvement for SharePoint uploader utility when the log file path is missing
– Updated manuals

DATE : 05-15-2017
Version : 14.89 (revision: 1741)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.7.682
– Stability improvement for printing from GhostScript
– Updated manuals

DATE : 05-02-2017
Version : 14.88 (revision: 1740)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.6.681
– Stability improvement for handling unsupported GDI object types
– Updated manuals

DATE : 04-24-2017
Version : 14.87 (revision: 1737)
– Stability improvement for using the Printer Driver with Microsoft Word with 204×196 DPI Fine Fax mode
– Minor user interface improvement in the DCCM
– Improved startup speed of the DCCM
– Stability improvement for checking for running instances in the DCCM
– Minor user interface improvements in the Printer Manager
– Minor user interface improvements on the Save as dialog
– Improved startup speed of the Printer Manager
– Minor user interface improvements on the Printing Preferences dialog Profile Manager tab
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers for using OCR parameter
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.5.680
– Fixed upside down text in some documents
– Updated manuals

DATE : 04-12-2017
Version : 14.86 (revision: 1721)
– Stability improvement for Printer driver installer for Windows Server 2008 64-bit
– Minor user interface improvement in the DCCM
– Minor user interface improvements in the Printer Manager
– Stability improvement for DCCM for saving Tab preferences in the printer driver configuration ini file
– Removed empty lines before pages in text output
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.4.679
– Fixed some images appearing black

DATE : 03-30-2017
Version : 14.85 (revision: 1716)
– Stability improvement for InstallShield MSI installation with Group policy

DATE : 03-27-2017
Version : 14.85 (revision: 1709)
– Added ColorPlus InstallShield MSI installers
– Added Tiff\Monochrome InstallShield MSI installers
– Added PDF InstallShield MSI installers
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-20-2017
Version : 14.84 (revision: 1698)
– Minor improvements on the new Printer Manager user interface
– Stability improvement for mail merge and content based email sending (disappearing page content)

DATE : 03-16-2017
Version : 14.83 (revision: 1695)
– Stability improvement for End-User PDF Printer Driver installer
– Stability improvement for running Printer Manager on Windows XP and 2003 systems

DATE : 03-15-2017
Version : 14.83 (revision: 1692)
– Completely redesigned Printer Manager
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.3.677
– Fix for lines and brushes when printing certain documents from SAP
– Stability improvement for uninstalling the Printer Driver using the MSI installers
– Updated manuals

DATE : 02-14-2017
Version : 14.82 (revision: 1675)
– Increased maximum custom parameter length to 8192 characters for the “Start Application” feature
– Fixed Apply button on the printing preferences dialog not activating when the custom parameter is changed
– Compatibility improvement for OCR on Windows XP and 2003 systems
– Updated manuals
– Updated OCR dlls to version 12.57.563

DATE : 02-08-2017
Version : 14.81 (revision: 1672)
– Minor user interface improvement in the MSI installers
– Updated OCR dlls to version 12.57.559
– Improved OCR accuracy
– Stability improvement for empty print jobs (E.g.: Printing empty page from Notepad)
– Minor user interface improvements
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 01-31-2017
Version : 14.80 (revision: 1658)
– Updated build process 15.
– Upgraded build process for the drivers and installers
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.2.675
– Stability improvement for printing into Editable XML and Editable HTML output file formats.
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.10.193
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.08.30
– Updated OCR dlls to version 12.57.554
– Supporting Windows Server 2016
– Added demo registration for printer driver MSI installers
– Removed the Everyone and Just Me radio buttons from the user interface of the MSI installers
– Stability improvement for resuming paused print jobs
– Added support for <>, <>, <> and <> environment variables in the output folder for shared printers
– Stability improvement for using period character in custom file names
– Stability improvement for licensing in the OEM Demo Printer Drivers
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 12-29-2016
Version : 14.76 (revision: 1619)
– HTTP Upload Utility user interface improvements.
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.08.187
– Stability improvement for handling connection problems
– Stability improvement for registration during installation on some Windows 2008 64 bit systems
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 12-14-2016
Version : 14.76 (revision: 1615)
– Stability improvement for uploading documents with Unicode names to Web (HTTP/HTTPS)
– Stability improvement for the Text Output (In some cases the Printer Driver inserted extra space characters into the text output)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 12-13-2016
Version : 14.76 (revision: 1613)
– Added filename generation option: “Use the Document Name with the Output Directory from an INI file”
– Added option to Custom file naming to read the Output Directory from an INI file
– The printer driver now generates an empty txt file for text output even if the printed page contains no text
– Stability improvement for using the Counter field in Custom File Naming
in Black Ice Document Converter with multiple parallel printers
– Stability improvement for Content Based Email Sending and Mail Merge when printing certain documents, including PDF files and Web pages
– Stability improvement for the Text Output (In some cases the Printer Driver inserted extra space characters into the text output)
– Stability improvement for Printer Drivers installation if the demo period is expired
– Disabled the Windows 10 option, “Let Windows manage my default printer” in OEM Printer Drivers
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.08.187
– Stability improvement for registration on certain systems
– Stability improvement for uninstalling the printer driver after the registration number was entered instead of the serial number during manual registration
– Stability improvement for uninstalling the printer driver MSI from Programs and Features if the printer driver MSI was installed using GPO
– Added Upload to Web feature
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 11-02-2016
Version : 14.75 (revision: 1579)
– Added option X1 Printer Drivers to insert a page in front of the printed document with Barcode
– Added multi printer install option to ColorPlus X1 printer driver installer
– Added multi printer install option to Monochrome\TIFF X1 printer driver installer
– Added multi printer install option to PDF X1 printer driver installer
– Stability improvement for concurrent printer driver detection
– Minor user interface improvements on the Email Settings dialog
– Performance improvement for printing some pages with extremely large amount of EMF records
– Stability improvement for checking barcode size
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 10-13-2016
Version : 14.74 (revision: 1568)
– Tooltips stay enabled on the Annotation page of the Printing Preferences dialog even if Annotation is disabled
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.06.179
– Stability improvement for registration with some VPN virtual network interfaces
– Updated the License agreement

DATE : 10-12-2016
Version : 14.73 (revision: 1566)
– Stability improvement for Bates Number and Annotation rotation
– Added Unicode text support for QR barcodes
– Changed Page, Annotation, Barcode and Bates Numbering rotation to clockwise
– Removed raw file formats from the user interface by default
– Added Tooltips to the Printing Preferences dialog
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.1.667
– Improved performance of multi-threaded PDF printing
– Updated the License agreement
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 09-15-2016
Version : 14.72 (revision: 1556)
– Stability Improvement for removing registry entries when uninstalling Printer Drivers
– Stability Improvement for multi printer naming

DATE : 09-13-2016
Version : 14.71 (revision: 1555)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.0.661
– Stability improvement for multi-threaded printing into PDF, HTML and XML formats
– Stability improvement for Printer Driver installer if additional DLL files are locked
– Bates number passed as application parameter includes the prefix and the padding characters
– Stability improvement for saving the Computer Name, Timestamp, First Bates Number and Last Bates Number application parameters into profiles
– Added multi printer install option to PDF printer driver installer
– Added progress dialog for the installation of the Printer driver and for configuring the printer
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-29-2016
Version : 14.70 (revision: 1543)
– Added User Name, Computer Name, Timestamp, First Bates Number and Last Bates Number parameters to the “Start Application” feature
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.04.178
– Stability improvement for registering with certain WiFi adapters (Error 41)
– Stability improvement for multi-user, parallel license checking (Error codes 47 and 24)
– Added new feature for DCCM to configure the Event Logging of the Printer Drivers
– Added new feature for DCCM to apply settings as default for All Users and save to the INI file
– Minor user interface improvements for DCCM
– Improved printing Chinese and other unicode documents from Edge on Windows 10 to all formats
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.9.658
– Stability improvement for printing documents that contain zero length text records
– Improved printing Chinese and other unicode documents from Edge on Windows 10 to PDF format
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-03-2016
Version : 14.69 (revision: 1532)
– Stability improvement for the printer driver MSI installer when using the PRINTERNAME parameter with agent printer parameters
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.7.655
– Stability improvement for printing using RAW data type
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.03.173
– Fixed licensing related error messages in the uninstallers
– Updated manuals

DATE : 07-14-2016
Version : 14.68 (revision: 1515)
– Stability improvement for using the “Overwrite the existing file” and “Rename the new file” text output options with custom file naming.
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.5.654
– Fix for certain bitmap fonts
– Stability improvement for certain applications that do not set the font during printing
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-17-2016
Version : 14.67 (revision: 1503)
– No changes in the Printer Driver, updated RTK manuals

DATE : 06-16-2016
Version : 14.67 (revision: 1501)
– Stability improvement for printing landscape documents in 204×98 DPI from Notepad
– Stability improvement for printing documents with varying page orientations
– Added option to show FTP error messages or message box after successful FTP uploads
– Added INI file options to hide FTP, SharePoint and Email options from the user interface
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.4.650
– Fixed missing characters when printing some documents that contain multiple fonts with the same name
– Fix for documents that use certain bitmap fonts
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-03-2016
Version : 14.66 (revision: 1488)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.4.643
– Fixed underlined and strike-through text when printing certain documents

DATE : 05-24-2016
Version : 14.65 (revision: 1485)
– Added transferable license handling
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.02.171
– Updated manuals

DATE : 05-11-2016
Version : 14.59 (revision: 1471)
– Stability improvement for printing landscape documents from Adobe Reader using the 204×98 DPI Standard Fax Compatibility Mode
– Updated manuals

DATE : 04-29-2016
Version : 14.58 (revision: 1461)
– Stability improvement for specifying very long email body texts or addresses

DATE : 04-27-2016
Version : 14.58 (revision: 1458)
– Added option to overwrite existing documents
– Added option to the Printer Manager to change Agent Printer settings for all users
– Added content based email sending feature
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-31-2016
Version : 14.57 (revision: 1429)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.2.641
– Fix for certain images appearing as black rectangles (BH branch merged)

DATE : 03-30-2016
Version : 14.56 (revision: 1428)
– Improved user interface for the Text Extraction feature: Added Text Output tab to the printing preferences dialog
– Added “Text with layout” option to text output
– Added overwrite and append options to text output
– Added UTF-16, UTF-8 encoding options to text output
– Added new Automatic space detection and glyph conversion options for improved text output
– Improved text extraction for Hebrew and Arabic (numbers inside right-to-left text)
– Stability improvement for printer sharing
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-09-2016
Version : 14.55 (revision: 1410)
– Removed Tiff Viewer installer from “End-User” Licensed printer drivers
– Added option to change the printer name during the printer driver MSI installation
– Set the ‘Enable Save As’ option to checked by default in MSI install
– Improved MSI silent uninstaller to not display messages
– Updated manuals

DATE : 02-18-2016
Version : 14.54 (revision: 1406)
– Disabled group file generation in the MSI installers default configuration
– Updated manuals

DATE : 02-17-2016
Version : 14.54 (revision: 1404)
– Improvements for event logging for limited user accounts

DATE : 02-15-2016
Version : 14.54 (revision: 1402)
– Added support for writing errors and print job information into the Windows Event Log
– Stability improvement for printing multi-sheet Excel files using Auto-print
– Stability Improvement for uninstalling OEM Printer drivers
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.1.640
– Fixed upside down text when using some rare mapping modes
– Updated manuals

DATE : 02-05-2016
Version : 14.53 (revision: 1396)
– Added support for printing PDF files to memory
– Added Add annotation to the first page only feature
– Added Add header to the first page only feature
– Added Add footer to the first page only feature
– Stability Improvement for uninstalling Printer driver
– Stability improvement in the licensed MSI installers for detecting already installed X1 printer drivers
– Set disable group file option in installed parallel drivers
– Stability Improvement for detecting shared printer driver
– Minor improvements for installer user interface
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.0.639
– Improvements in font handling (UFI Mapping)
– Improvements in handling text inside paths
– Improved accuracy of coordinates in the Text Output when the “Save text position and style” option is used
– Added INI file option for better compatibility with certain applications printing in anisotropic resolutions (E.g.: 600×300 DPI)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 01-13-2016
Version : 14.52 (revision: 1381)
– Stability improvement for changing TIFF options when the Save As option is enabled

DATE : 01-12-2016
Version : 14.51 (revision: 1380)
– Improved performance when printing to multi-page TIFF format
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.07.26
– Stability improvement for appending multiple pages to a TIFF file
– Stability improvement for writing TIFF files larger than 2GB
– Removed the Internet Explorer checking from “End-User” Licensed printer drivers
– Updated manuals

DATE : 12-22-2015
Version : 14.50 (revision: 1370)
– The Printer Manager uses the same profiles as the Printer Drivers
– Stability improvement for cancelling install process
– Changed the profile name of the profile “Extract text from searchable documents” to “Text Output – Extract text from documents”
– Updated manuals

DATE : 12-17-2015
Version : 14.49 (revision: 1365)
– Added “Number of copies” option to redirect printing
– Added Collated/Uncollated printing option to redirect printing
– Added “Copy number” (<>) variable to annotation, header and footer options
– Added support for using the Flip options with redirect printing
– Added INI file option to use the old coordinate calculations (same as version 14.35 and older) for text output for compatibility
– Added INI file option to disable page headers in text output
– Updated manuals

DATE : 12-08-2015
Version : 14.48 (revision: 1360)
– The filename generation method is automatically changed to “Exact filename” When the Combine/Merge option is turned on
– Upgraded the Printer Driver MSI installers from .NET Framework version 2.0 to 4.0
– Removed .NET Framework 2.0 support from Uploading to FTP, Upload to SharePoint and Email sending components.
From this version, the components support only .NET Framework 4.0 or higher.
– Updated manuals

DATE : 12-04-2015
Version : 14.47 (revision: 1357)
– Added “Top” and “Fit to Width – Top” watermark positions
– Updated manuals

DATE : 11-20-2015
Version : 14.46 (revision: 1343)
– Stability improvement for using environment variables in header/footer for shared printers
– Stability improvement for handling printer settings when a printer is renamed
– Improvements for registry cleanup on driver uninstall
– Improved error reporting for SharePoint uploader
– Added support for the Office 365 SharePoint online
– Stability improvement for .NET detection in the installers
– Added auto configuration for custom INI file in the MSI installer
– Added “Extract text from searchable documents” profile
– Updated manuals

DATE : 11-17-2015
Version : 14.45 (revision: 1339)
– Fixed potential memory leak introduced in version 14.44

DATE : 11-10-2015
Version : 14.44 (revision: 1330)
– Enabled printer sharing for all drivers
– Enabled printer sharing for Agent printers
– Stability improvement in the MSI installers for reading custom INI files
– Stability improvement in the licensed installers for detecting already installed OEM Release printer drivers
– Stability improvement for loading custom paper sizes from profiles
– Renamed default printer profiles
– Set disable group file option in the default profiles
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-28-2015
Version : 14.43 (revision: 1310)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.6.632
– Improvements for generating searchable PDF documents
– Improvements to allow copy-pasting unicode text from the generated PDF documents
– Stability improvement in the MSI installers for reading custom INI files

DATE : 10-19-2015
Version : 14.42 (revision: 1307)
– Stability improvement for Agent printer creation
– Stability improvement for reloading encoded passwords from profile files
– Added Windows 10 compatibility

DATE : 10-13-2015
Version : 14.42 (revision: 1297)
– Stability improvement for Text Output, when printing PDF documents

DATE : 10-12-2015
Version : 14.41 (revision: 1296)
– Stability improvement for printer driver installers if the Print Spooler service is not running
– Stability improvement for Message Capture when used with multiple Printers in paralell
– Stability improvement for setting up and testing SMTP connections using the Print Manager
– Added the “Audit log”, “Prompt the user only for email address” and “Delete every file, including attachment, after the email is sent” email options to the Printer Manager UI
– Added Message Capture warnings to the Group File
– Added new configurable time-out value for the Message Capture to the INI files
– Increased Message Capture default timeout values to 10 seconds
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-31-2015
Version : 14.40 (revision: 1264)
– Added “Delete output document after the email is sent” option
– Added “Prompt the user only for email address” option to email sending
– Added Audit Log option to email sending
– Added INI file options to disable the settings window and about box links on the SMTP email sending window
– Added option to specify SMTP User Name without domain if the server allows it
– Added option to specify the SMTP Sender Email separately from the User Name
– Improved parameter validation for SMTP options
– Made error messages clearer during registration.
– Stability improvement for using the Messaging Interface with shared printers
– Added option to MSI installers to set email options using INI file
– Stability improvements for Intensity (brightness) control for large images
– Last output file name is written into bi_group.ini
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.5.631
– Improvements for printing vertical Asian text
– Improved bold text rendering for some fonts
– Improved handling of fonts that contain unicode characters in the name of the font (fixes disappearing characters, incorrect font substitutions and incorrectly positioned characters in Japanese text)
– Improvement for embedding Type 1 fonts
– Improvement for printing documents that contain embedded fonts, with font subsetting enabled
– Updated manuals

DATE : 07-20-2015
Version : 14.39 (revision: 1236)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.4.626
– Stability improvements for drawing arcs and ellipses
– Stability improvements for image handling
– Improvement in handling invalid DPI values

DATE : 07-08-2015
Version : 14.38 (revision: 1233)
– Stability improvement for the Monochrome/TIFF X1 Server MSI installer
– Improvement for the help button on the DCCM user interface

DATE : 07-07-2015
Version : 14.38 (revision: 1232)
– Added Document Converter Configuration Manager for Licensed Server printer drivers
– Stability improvement for printing Office documents with embedded printer settings (DEVMODE structures)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-11-2015
Version : 14.37 (revision: 1222)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.3.624
– Stability improvement for appending PDF files using the “Combine/Merge multiple documents into a single file” option (E.g.: Printing EXcel files with Auto-print)
– Updated licensing for BiBatchConverter
– Added option to install Agent Printers to the Licensed Printer Drivers
– Renamed the profiles in the Printer Drivers to be more descriptive
– Disabled Compatibility Warning in the Printer Driver INI files by default
– Updated manuals

DATE : 05-28-2015
Version : 14.36 (revision: 1203)
– Stability improvement for printing Excel files into PDF documents using the “Combine/Merge multiple documents into a single file” option
– Improvement for “Extract text to file” option (text output line detection)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 05-19-2015
Version : 14.35 (revision: 1196)
– Stability improvement for image file name generation when the document name contains invalid Unicode characters
– Stability improvement for using the Messaging Interface with fresh driver installations (Writing Message Interface Name into Registry for all users)
– Updated licensing for BiBatchConverter

DATE : 05-14-2015
Version : 14.34 (revision: 1189)
– Stability improvement for Start Application feature

DATE : 05-11-2015
Version : 14.33 (revision: 1188)
– Stability improvement for changing the Messaging Interface Name and ID using the API
– Added FTP upload feature
– Added Email Sending Utility and SharePoint Uploading Utility .Net framework 4.0 version
– Added BIFTP .NET framework 4.0 to the Distribution folder of OEM Release Printer Driver
– Stability improvement for MSI installers for removing old printer drivers and installing new printer drivers (updating PDF dlls)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 04-08-2015
Version : 14.32 (revision: 1150)
– User interface improvement for Profile Manager
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-24-2015
Version : 14.31 (revision: 1140)
– Added 204×98 DPI Compatiblity Standard Fax mode, for applications that cannot handle 204×98 DPI properly (e.g. Adobe Reader)
– Improved “Extract Text to File” option for Hebrew and Arabic

DATE : 03-17-2015
Version : 14.30 (revision: 1136)
– User interface improvements
– Added “Split multipage PDF documents to single page” profile to Licensed and OEM ColorPlus and PDF Printer Driver
– Added “Split multipage Tiff documents to single page” profile to Licensed and OEM ColorPlus and Monochrome Printer Driver
– Set Save As option to disabled in “Merge to PDF” and “Merge to TIFF” profile
– Updated TiffViewer to version 14.22.714
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-13-2015
Version : 14.29 (revision: 1129)
– Stability improvement for printing and licensing in the Licensed MSI printer drivers
– Stability improvement for license checking when changing printer settings during the installation

DATE : 03-06-2015
Version : 14.28 (revision: 1125)
– Improvement for printing landscape documents using RAW data type
– Added Troubleshooting for RAW data type
– Stability improvement for printing and licensing in the OEM Demo drivers
– Stability improvement for installing the OEM and Licensed drivers on the same system
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-02-2015
Version : 14.27 (revision: 1118)
– Stability improvement for Troubleshooting
– Improvements for “Extract text to file” option
– Added multi printer install option to TIFF/Monochrome DEMO printer driver installer
– Added multi printer install option to ColorPlus DEMO printer driver installer
– Changed the “Merge to PDF” and “Merge to TIFF” profiles to use the “Exact Filename” option
– Improved logging in the MSI installers

DATE : 02-11-2015
Version : 14.26 (revision: 1099)
– Stability improvement for multi-threaded PNG and GIF printing
– Improved Troubleshooting, debug file extension changed from DDF to EDF
– Updated manuals

DATE : 02-02-2015
Version : 14.25 (revision: 1095)
– Added multi printer install option to TIFF/Monochrome printer driver installer
– Added multi printer install option to ColorPlus printer driver installer
– Updated eLicense.dll to 4.04.135
– Fixed product registration problem (improvement for unique ID detection)
– Fixed potiential deadlock in License Checking
– Changed default Photo Quality Intensity to 70
– Updated manuals

DATE : 01-26-2015
Version : 14.20 (revision: 1086)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.618
– Significantly improved performance for printing to PDF file format
– Added embedded font indexing
– Improved performance of drawing operations
– User interface improvement for the Watermark Brightness option
– Stability improvement in the Printer Manager for old printer drivers without OCR

DATE : 01-20-2014
Version : 14.19 (revision: 1071)
– Stability improvements for the Uninstaller to remove the user settings from the registry
– Stability improvements for the Uninstaller to remove the driver files
– Stability improvements for the Installers to overwrite old printer driver files on the system
– Improvements for MSI Installers to overwrite old printer driver files on the system
– Stability improvements for the MSI Uninstaller to remove the driver files
– Added printer driver version to MSI installer log file
– Minor improvements in the user interface of the Installers
– Removed Message Capture C++ Sample from Demo OEM installers
– Removed BiPDFCJK.dll from the installers
– Stability improvement for “Generate output in memory” option
– Improvement for “Start Application” option: Document Name, Group Filename and Output Filename parameters are available when “Start Before Printing” is selected
– Improved TIFF error handling
– Stability improvement for printing with Message Capture
– Updated manuals

DATE : 12-10-2014
Version : 14.18 (revision: 1032)
– Fixed an issue where in some cases a 0 byte TIFF file got generated besides the output file
– Performance improvement for the “Extract text” option when “Eastern character support” is enabled
– Added INI file option to turn off directory access check at the start of printing
– Minor user interface improvements
– Stability improvements for MSI Installers when use DPD options
– Fixed memory leak related to temporary font files when printing from Adobe Reader when the “Extraxt text to file” option is enabled
– Fixed a registration problem on 64 bit systems
– Updated manuals

DATE : 11-19-2014
Version : 14.17 (revision: 1026)
– Stability improvements for MSI Installers when the ntuser.dat file is damaged or renamed on the computer.
– Updated eLicense.dll to 4.02.131
– Stability improvement in license registration
– Improved error handling for non-connection errors during registration
– Fix slowdown in printing of PDF files to TIFF – Microsoft Update KB2998812 cause temporary fonts accumulate in temp folder
– Stability improvement for printing with “Enable advanced printing features” unchecked, output disabled and text output enabled
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-10-2014
Version : 14.16 (revision: 1011)
– Added compatibility with Auto-print SDK Demo
– Stability improvement for Mail Merge
– Improved output filename generation when printing from Visio
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.18.674

DATE : 09-30-2014
Version : 14.15 (revision: 1002)
– Improved profile loading
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.613
– Stability improvement when printing documents with Eastern characters to PDF format
– Stability improvement when printing to HTML format
– Deleting ‘Common profiles’ folder during uninstall
– Improved filename generation when printing PDF documents
– Updated MSI installation guides
– Updated manuals

DATE : 09-11-2014
Version : 14.14 (revision: 981)
– Improved profile loading
– Enabled Profile Manager for Agent Printers
– Added predefined Printer Driver profiles
– Stability improvement for BiBatchConverter licensing
– Renamed OCR data directory
– Need “OCR Language Pack for Printer Driver” version 2.0 to add additional languages

DATE : 09-02-2014
Version : 14.13 (revision: 960)
– Fixed Help button in the Printing preferences dialog OCR tab
– Updated manuals

DATE : 08-27-2014
Version : 14.13 (revision: 953)
– No changes

DATE : 08-14-2014
Version : 14.12 (revision: 932)
– No changes

DATE : 08-12-2014
Version : 14.12 (revision: 931)
– Improved multithreading
– Stability improvement for Bates numbering when “Redirect Printing” is enabled
– Updated Image Dlls to version 12.04.22 (improved multithreading in PDF dll)
– Stability improvement for printing to PDF Image format
– Stability improvement for Troubleshooting in EMF drivers
– Stability improvement for printing XPS documents from AutoPrint

DATE : 08-04-2014
Version : 14.11 (revision: 907)
– Improvement for Save As dialog

DATE : 08-01-2014
Version : 14.11 (revision: 905)
– Stability improvement for printing into image file formats

DATE : 07-31-2014
Version : 14.11 (revision: 902)
– Improved multithreading

DATE : 07-22-2014
Version : 14.11 (revision: 895)
– Fixed Threshold option Intensity scale
– “Rotate Landscape Image to Portrait” option is now available for all output file formats
– Added page rotation option for all output file formats
– Stability improvement for the “Redirect Printing” option
– Updated manuals

DATE : 07-16-2014
Version : 14.10 (revision: 889)
– Added 200 DPI resolution to FAX output
– Stability improvements for Multithreading
– Updated manuals
– Updated MSI installation guides

DATE : 07-02-2014
Version : 14.09 (revision: 879)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.595
– Stability improvements for printing very large documents to PDF file format
– Stability improvements for printing images on PDF documents
– Removed feature to disable tabs during the installation when installing EMF Printer Driver
– Stability Improvements for enabling tabs in the Configuration Manager during the installation
– Fixed Header/Footer offset settings and Troubleshooting settings missing from the default ini file
– Minor user interface changes in the Printing Preferences
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-27-2014
Version : 14.08 (revision: 872)
– Improvements for setting up log directory for E-mail sending
– Improvements for setting up log file for Uploading to SharePoint
– Improvements for setting up log file for Redirect printing
– Improvements for setting up Output directory
– Improvements for setting up Start application
– Improved filename generation when printing from Notepad

DATE : 06-25-2014
Version : 14.07 (revision: 862)
– Added Troubleshooting feautre to the Printer Driver
– Stability Improvement for Post Printing options when printing on Citrix
– Improved initial directories when browsing in Printing Preferences
– Fixed Color Depth combobox size problem when choosing PDF format in Save As dialog
– Fixed Barcode value cannot be removed in Printer Manager when disabled
– Stability Improvement in Custom File Naming
– Stability Improvement in Test Email sending
– Stability Improvement for Uninstalling the OEM Printer Drivers on Windows 8 and Windows 2012 systems
– Fixed Footer text loading from ini file
– Improved filename generation when printing from PowerPoint in compatibility mode
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-19-2014
Version : 14.06 (revision: 850)
– Rewritten uninstall DLL
– Updated Demo RTK link
– Updated MSI installation guides

DATE : 06-17-2014
Version : 14.06 (revision: 845)
– Stability improvement for Uninstalling the OEM Demo Printer Drivers on 32-bit operating system

DATE : 06-13-2014
Version : 14.05 (revision: 838)
– Improved wrong serial handling in MSI installers
– Stability Improvement for Uninstalling the Licensed Printer Driver when OEM Printer Driver is already installed
– Stability Improvement for Uninstalling the OEM Demo Printer Drivers

DATE : 06-04-2014
Version : 14.04 (revision: 825)
– Improved print quality when the “Create faxable image” option is turned on
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.15.639
– Updated manuals

DATE : 05-27-2014
Version : 14.02 (revision: 818)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.580
– Stability improvement for eastern character handling in the PDF output
– Reduced PDF file size due to the improved font embedding
– Stability improvement for Linear PDF encryption
– Stability improvement for memory handling for PDF printing

DATE : 05-26-2014
Version : 14.01 (revision: 810)
– Added Configuration Manager (tab list) after custom configuration to OEM Printer Driver installers
– Fixed annotation positioning problem when printing PDF with fax resolution
– Fixed annotation, header, footer preview height problem when using fax resolution
– Fixed user name printing in annotation, header, footer

DATE : 05-21-2014
Version : 14.00 (revision: 801)
– Added Annotation Header/Footer feature
– Redesigned Annotation settings tab
– Fixed text flip problem on PDF printing
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.571
– Stability improvement for file name lengths exceeding 260 characters
– Improved paper orientation handling when changing paper size during message capture
– Added scaling option to redirect printing feature
– Updated manuals

DATE : 05-12-2014
Version : 13.99 (revision: 767)
– Stability improvements in the installers
– Stability improvement for setting Start Application Custom Parameter for all users

DATE : 05-02-2014
Version : 13.99 (revision: 743)
– Solved registration problem on Windows Vista 64-bit

DATE : 04-30-2014
Version : 13.99 (revision: 741)
– Added PDF Open settings to PDF and PDF/A file formats
– Fixed PDF/A file format settings cannot set on Save as dialog
– Improvement for margin handling when printing a PDF document generated by the printer driver to a physical printer
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.567
– Updated manuals

DATE : 04-23-2014
Version : 13.98 (revision: 731)
– Improvements for PDF format printing
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.563
– Stability Improvement for the “Create faxable image” feature
– Improvements in the RTK, Please see the RTK release notes

DATE : 04-16-2014
Version : 13.97 (revision: 718)
– Improvements in the Installation and Uninstallation
– Stability improvement for printing with redirect printing enabled
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.12.614
– eLicense version 4.00.116
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 04-07-2014
Version : 13.97 (revision: 703)
– Improvements for PDF format printing
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.554
– Improvements in the RTK, Please see the RTK release notes

DATE : 04-02-2014
Version : 13.96 (revision: 701)
– Stability improvements in the RTK, Please see the RTK release notes
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 03-25-2014
Version : 13.96 (revision: 699)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.2.546
– Improvements for HTML file format printing
– Improvements for Bulleted List Symbol drawing
– Improvements for Line and Border drawing
– Improvements for Background Color handling
– Improvements for HTML object filling
– Improvements for the Clipping
– Improvements for Calculating the rotated text positions
– Improvements for Character Offset
– Improvements for the Headers in the HTML
– Stability improvements for PDF, PDF/A file formats
– Stability improvements for Linearized PDF (Fast Web View) printing
– Stability improvements for PDF printing from internet browsers
– Improvements for 1D barcode printing
– Improvements for file size optimalization

DATE : 03-21-2014
Version : 13.95 (revision: 696)
– Improved output folder access rights checking
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.11.601
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 03-19-2014
Version : 13.95 (revision: 695)
– Changed license registration communication to HTTPS
– Added Proxy handling in the license registration
– Added Proxy and HTTPS handling in the MSI registration
– Improved handling of invalid DPI values
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.11.600
– eLicense version 4.00.114
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 03-12-2014
Version : 13.94 (revision: 685)
– Added default printer feature to the Licensed Printer Driver installers
– Added trace logging to the MSI Installer for Registration
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 03-07-2014
Version : 13.93 (revision: 673)
– Stability improvement for the “Save as” feature when using the drivers with RemoteApp
– Improved dithering when using RAW data type
– Stability improvement for the licensed installers
– Stability improvement: Saving to TIFF file format a 0 byte output file is generated when Disable Output file is enabled
– Stability improvement: Automatically loading paper list
– Stability improvement when trying to print documents into restricted folder
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 02-24-2014
Version : 13.92 (revision: 661)
– Stability improvement for the “Save as” feature when using the drivers with RemoteApp
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.09.591
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 02-20-2014
Version : 13.91 (revision: 654)
– Stability improvement for email sending with Outlook 2013 64-bit

DATE : 02-18-2014
Version : 13.90 (revision: 650)
– Added OCR feature to the Printer Drivers
– Created OCR Language Pack for Printer Drivers
– Added registration process logging in MSI Printer Drivers
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.6.2.527, Fixed the following issues:
– Printing Chinese Excel file causes Spooler Crash
– Incorrect output when printing from UPS
– Spooler Crashed when printing from ‘mapquest.com’ into PDF or PDF/A
– Spooler Crash when printing Turkish Word document into Linearlized PDF on Server 2003 R2
– GDI object leak while printing to Linearized PDF on Windows XP
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.07.581
– Updated manual

DATE : 01-21-2014
Version : 13.82 (revision: 620)
– Added EMF output file format to ColorPlus drivers
– Added “Bottom” and “Fit to Width – Bottom” watermark positions
– On Windows Server systems the drivers now use the current user’s session ID for the messagaing interface by default
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.04.566
– Updated manual

DATE : 01-08-2014
Version : 13.81 (revision: 612)
– Update Resource Tool Kit (RTK). Includes several improvement and Windows 8 adaptation.
– Fixed blicectr.dll version info
– Updated TiffViewer to version 11.03.559
– Updated manual

DATE : 11-29-2013
Version : 13.80 (revision: 599)
– New profile file format that allows sharing printer settings between different driver types
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.6.1.492 (Restored PDF interface)
– Improved compatibility with older Black Ice products
– Stability improvement for custom installers (renaming tiff32.dll and application starter utility)
– CustomStartApplicationParameter not loaded for users through the INI file
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.04.21
– Updated TiffViewer to version 10.14.536
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-31-2013
Version : 13.79 (revision: 587)
– Stability improvement for Custom Application parameter in multi-user environments
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.479

DATE : 10-14-2013
Version : 13.78 (revision: 579)
– Added editable XML file format Updated PDF Dlls version 2.6.1.479
– Improvements for page size handling in Redirect Printing option
– Stability improvement for Force Printer DPI option
– Updated TiffViewer to 10.11.499
– Updated manuals

DATE : 09-20-2013
Version : 13.77 (revision: 561)
– Stability improvements for the MSI installers
– “Save as” dialog always stays on top
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.448

DATE : 09-16-2013
Version : 13.77 (revision: 558)
– Fixed page orientation issue when printing from Outlook 2007
– Updated manuals
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.448

DATE : 09-10-2013
Version : 13.76 (revision: 556)
– Updated PDF Dlls version 2.6.1.448 for the better PDF printing
– Stability improvement for clipping in PDF and PDF/A output
– Stability improvement for background filling in PDF and PDF/A output
– Stability improvement for positions and scalings of texts in PDF and PDF/A output

DATE : 09-05-2013
Version : 13.75 (revision: 555)
– Added Stop Restart Spooler to uninstall process
– Added MSI installer for ColorPlus X1 Server, PDF X1 Server and Monochrome X1 Server printer drivers
– Updated manuals
– Updated MSI installation guides
– Updated TiffViewer to 9.17.438
– Stability Improvement for printing from Internet Explorer 9 with Protected Mode turned on
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.432

DATE : 08-15-2013
Version : 13.74 (revision: 545)
– No changes in the Printer Driver
– Added silent uninstall support for the InstallShield samples in the Printer Driver API/Resource Toolkit
– Improved silent mode for MSI samples in the Printer Driver API/Resource Toolkit
– Updated manuals
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.432

DATE : 08-07-2013
Version : 13.73 (revision: 541)
– Updated manuals
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.432

DATE : 07-25-2013
Version : 13.73 (revision: 540)
– Stability improvement for TIFF output
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.432

DATE : 07-24-2013
Version : 13.72 (revision: 537)
– Updated PDF dll-s to 2.6.1.432
– Updated TiffViewer to 9.15.414
– Updated manuals

DATE : 07-05-2013
Version : 13.71 (revision: 535)
– Stability improvement for the open file dialogs
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.429

DATE : 07-04-2013
Version : 13.71 (revision: 534)
– Environment variables are now allowed in more printer driver parameters
– Stability improvement for JPEG compressed TIFF output
– Updated manuals
– Updated PDF dll-s to 2.6.1.429
– Problem of spooler crash of generating HTML files is fixed. The problem is introduced in version 13.70.525

DATE : 06-10-2013
Version : 13.70 (revision: 525)
– Added 1 bit monochrome, 8 bit color and 8 bit grayscale support for PDF and PDF/A files
– Added dithering support for images in PDF and PDF/A files
– Added color pattern generation for the stroking and filling colors
for better visual accuracy in PDF and PDF/A files with lower color depths
– Added image resampling option to PDF and PDF/A files
– Added LZW compression support to PDF files
– Updated PDF dll-s to 2.6.1.422
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-05-2013
Version : 13.66 (revision: 522)
– Added “Delete files after uploading” option to SharePoint settings
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.375

DATE : 05-28-2013
Version : 13.65 (revision: 519)
– Added “Use Embedded Text” barcode option to X1 printer drivers
– Added MSI installer for ColorPlus Server, PDF Server and Monochrome Server printer drivers
– Updated manuals
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.375

DATE : 05-08-2013
Version : 13.60 (revision: 506)
– Improved Extract Text option for Barcode Printing
– Stability Improvement for Barcode Printing with the Redirect Printing option
– Stability Improvement for Redirect Printing option when printing from Internet Exporer 9
– Stability Improvement for the Email sending option in the MSI installers
– Stability Improvement for the SharPoint Upload option in the MSI installers
– Updated manuals
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.375

DATE : 04-23-2013
Version : 13.60 (revision: 494)
– Black Ice Software release the X1 Printer Drivers.
– Used PDF SDK DLLs version 2.6.1.375