The Black Ice printer drivers create group files at the end of each print job. Group files contain information specific to the print job which was just processed, including the name of the generated output file(s), any errors that occurred during printing, and specifics about the print job. Since the group files are standard text files, they can be opened by common applications such as notepad.
The group file name is the same as the generated image file name (with a .GRP extension) and it is the in the same directory as the generated image file.
Printed document status can be found under the printer name tag. For example:
[Black Ice TIFF]
Print status=Printing finished successfully
If printing fails during printing, Printing Status contain an error code. For example:
[Black Ice TIFF]
Print status= 21
The OCR errors are written into the group file, into the “OCR Error” key under the “[Page X]” section where the error occurred.
For example:
[Page 1]
OCR Error=7: OCR language is not set
Errors returned by the driver in the group file:
|
Error code |
Error message |
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1 |
Internal error, invalid parameters |
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2 |
Output filename is not set |
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3 |
Path to the OCR DLL is not set |
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4 |
Could not load OCR DLL (Error code from windows: <LAST ERROR>) |
|
5 |
Could not load functions form the OCR DLL (Error code from windows: <LAST ERROR>) |
|
6 |
Could not save output file (<Additional Information>) |
|
7 |
OCR language is not set |
|
8 |
Could not select page area (crop failed) |
|
9 |
OCR DLL returned an error (<OCR DLL ERROR CODE>) See the table below |
BiOCR.dll error codes:
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Error code |
Error message |
|
1 |
Cannot get the DLL location. |
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2 |
Cannot initialize the OCR engine. |
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3 |
Error during converting DIB. |
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4 |
General I/O error in reading or writing. |
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5 |
Not enough memory to allocate block. |
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6 |
Invalid parameter. |
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7 |
Cannot load external DLL. |
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8 |
Cannot load the image file. |
If message capture is used, the Printer Driver will write any messaging related errors to the “Message Capture Warning” key in the header section. If the Printer Driver encounters multiple messaging errors during printing, the key contains the message for the first messaging error. The same “Message Capture Warning” key can be found under each [Page 1], [Page 2], etc. section where the Printer Driver encountered the error, these keys contain the first error message for the page. If you receive message capture warnings, please try to increase the “Messaging Timeout” and “Messaging Timeout 2” values in the Printer Driver INI files. If that does not help, please contact technical support with the exact error message. Error codes that appear in the error messages are standard Windows error codes.
Example:
Message Capture Warning=Time-out period expired while waiting for the pipe (DEVMODE message)