Group File Header section

The Group File Header section of the group file contains information about the print job as a whole.  The section below will explain each component of the group file from the previous section.  Lines in bold are the lines taken directly from the group file.

 

[Color Printer]

The printer driver type. The printer driver type can be Monochrome, PDF, Color, or Metafile.

 

Image Format=JPEG

Image format can be

Microsoft Bitmap format      - “BMP"

Paint Brush format               - "PCX"

Intel format                            - "DCX"

- "TIFF Group 3 1D No EOL"

- "TIFF Uncompressed"

- "TIFF Group 3 2D"

- "TIFF Group 4"

- "TIFF Packed"

- "TIFF LZW"

- "TIFF JPEG"

- "TIFF Group 3 1D"

- "CALS"

- "RAW TIFF Group 3 1D"

- "RAW TIFF Group 3 1D No EOL"

- "RAW TIFF Group 3 2D"

- "RAW TIFF Group 4"

- "JPEG"

Color Fax Format                 - "JPEG L*a*b"

"Extended Metafile"

- "PDF"

 

Append Image Enabled=No

The “Append Image Enabled” field shows that the printer driver generated a single file with multiple images in it, or a separate file for every page. If a single file is generated with multiple images then there would be a single image per page. Also the file name will be repeated for every page in the Page section of the group file. See detail below.

 

Bits Per Pixel=24

The “Bits Per Pixel” field shows the generated image color depth. The values can be 1 for monochrome, 8 and 24 for color images.

 

Print status=Printing finished successfully

The printed job status. In case of failed printing and error message will appear in the status field.

The message “Printing started” is shown when printing begins

The message "Printing finished successfully" shown on successful printing.

The message "Internal error 99" followed by two numbers shown when an internal error occurs. Please contact technical support with error number for details.

The message "Out of memory" shown when the driver fail to allocate memory. Resolution is to add more physical memory and make sure that there is enough disk space for virtual memory.

The message "BUTIFF.DLL  cannot be loaded" shown if driver failed to load the TIFF32 DLL.

The message "JPEG32.DLL cannot be loaded" shown if driver failed to load the  JPEG32 DLL.

 

Total number of pages=3

The total number of pages printed in the print job.

 

Message Capture Warning=Time-out period expired while waiting for the pipe (DEVMODE message)

 

If message capture is used, the Printer Driver will write any messaging related errors to the “Message Capture Warning” key. 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 [Pege 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.