PDF Printer Driver
For Windows 11/10/8/7 (32 and 64 bit)
For Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012 R2/2012 & Citrix
User’s Guide
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SP1055
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Installation, Licensing and Registration
Installing the PDF Printer Driver on Windows 11/10/8/7
Installing the PDF Printer Driver on Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012
Activating the Printer Driver with Parallel Printers
Installing multiple printers within the demo period
Activating the Printer Driver with Parallel Threads
Activating multiple threads within the demo period
Registering the PDF Printer Driver
Registering the PDF Printer Driver with transferable license
Registering through a Proxy server
Manually registering the Printer Driver Demo during installation
Manually registering the Printer Driver Release during installation
Manually registering the Printer Driver Release (purchased version)
The evaluation version of PDF Printer Driver is expired
What to do when the Licenses are Exhausted
How do I know if Printer Driver is registered with transferable license?
Upgrading transferable license to regular (static) license
Upgrading regular (static) license to transferable license
Moving transferable license to another computer
Checking the version number and the registration status
Registration error (Error code 55)
Registration error (Error code 56)
Registration error (Error code 57)
Registration error (Error code 68)
Registration error (Error code 100)
License Validation Error (Error Code 335 or 35) when using Temporary or Virtual network interfaces
Uninstalling the PDF Printer Driver
Reinstalling the PDF Printer Driver
Upgrading the PDF Printer Driver version 14.69 or older and preserving the printer settings
Installing the OCR Language Pack for Printer Drivers
Output Folder / Save As option
Send a Printed Document in an Email
Upload to SharePoint using the Save As dialog
Add Text Watermark or Stamp on the Save As Dialog
Add Image Watermark or Stamp on the Save As Dialog
Merge Documents into a single file
Encrypt the printed document using a password
Failed Licensing of the Black Ice Printer Drivers (Release)
Finding Agent Printers on Devices and Printers window
Finding Base and Agent Printers on the Printers and Scanners window
Send a Printed Document in Email
Using sub sites in SharePoint upload
Using Microsoft Account (OAUTH 2.0) authentication to upload documents to SharePoint
The SharePoint Uploader Registry Keys
Configure Printer Manager and Printing Preferences tabs
Event Viewer Logging Configuration
How to Manually Uninstall Black Ice Printer Manager
Configuring the PDF Printer Driver Printing Preferences
Add or Edit Custom Paper Sizes
Printing document with different page sizes
Edit The Printer Driver Graphic Resolution
Pages Per Sheet (N-Up) Printing
Searchable Compact PDF File Format
Save each page as a separate file
Redirect Printing on Save As Dialog
Send a Printed Document in an Email on Save As Dialog
Upload to SharePoint using the Save As dialog
Add Text Watermark or Stamp on the Save As Dialog
Add Image Watermark or Stamp on the Save As Dialog
Custom File Name Configuration
Combine/Merge multiple documents into a single file
Using sub sites in SharePoint upload
Using Microsoft Account (OAUTH 2.0) authentication to upload documents to SharePoint
The SharePoint Uploader Registry Keys
How to configure email sending with Gmail
Example for Starting an Application
Add font information, position and style
Output directory configuration
Creating Black Ice Profile File
Creating INI file for Printer Driver MSI Installations
Redirect Printing configuration
OCR documents or selected areas
PDF Printer Driver Configuration
Configuring the Drivers for Users by Administrators during installation
Configuring the Drivers for Users by Administrators
Configuring the Drivers for Users by Administrators on Windows Servers
Save the Administrator’s current settings for Every User
Frequently Used Configurations
Dropbox - Upload Directly to Dropbox
Google Drive - Upload Directly to Google Drive Folder
OneDrive - Upload Directly to OneDrive
Using Black Ice Printer Drivers with Google Cloud Print
Background printing configuration
Configuring the timeout value of the Merge Documents window
Merge Documents in the background
Split multipage document to single page PDF files
Upload to SharePoint with a Single Printing with Agent Printers
Creating Multiple Output File Formats with One Single Printing with Agent Printers
Configuring UNC path for output directory
Configuring Output Directory with Environmental Variables
Configuring output directory for shared Agent Printers using UNC path
Configuring output directory for shared printers on the Host
Configuring output directory for shared printers on the Client
Configuring output directory for shared printers using UNC path on the network
Configuring UNC output path on the Host for shared printers
Install or update the Printer Driver package on the Client computer manually
Install or update the Printer Driver package on the Client computer with the SCCM
Remove/Uninstall Shared printers from Client computers
Update Shared printers on the Host and Client
Attaching the Shared Printers Without Administrative Privilege
Adding Shared Printer driver through Group Policy
Uninstalling Shared printer drivers from the Client using GPO
Applying settings from host for shared printers on client machines
Adding Shared Printer driver through HTTP with IPP (Internet Printing Protocol)
How to increase spooler size for IPP printers in the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
Using Watermark on shared printers
Using Stamp on shared printers
Using Annotation on shared printers
Post-printing and Application Starting Options
Configuring Agent (Task) Printers
Configuring Agent Printers for every user
How to configure email sending with Gmail
Email Configuration to Multiple Dedicated Email Address
Using Profiles for Common Configurations
How to create a Profile for conversion
Integrating the Black Ice Virtual Printer with Existing POS Systems
Hide the Printer Drivers Tabs and Features on the Printing Preferences
MSI Printer Driver Installer for Large Scale Deployment
Supported Installation Methods Using Group Policy Deployment
Email Configuration through MSI Printer Driver Installation
SharePoint Configuration through MSI Printer Driver Installation
Printer Driver MSI configuration through CUSTOMINI file
Create an INI file for customized installation
Agent Printer configuration through custom profiles
Add Bates Numbering as Custom Filename
How to set up multiple OCR languages in the Printer Driver
Enable Event Logging for Auditing and Troubleshooting
Check Event Logging Error and for Auditing
Restore the Default Settings of the Printer Driver
How to reconfigure already installed Black Ice printer drivers through Group Policy?
Configure Roaming Domain Users through Group Policy
Printing document with different page sizes
INI Configuration for Opening Documents in Memory Using IceViewer
Document Converter Configuration Manager
The API - Resource Toolkit (RTK)
Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)
Output Document name length limitation
How to create faxable images for specific Fax Boards?
How to Improve Faxing. Increasing Legibility of Small Text for Faxing
Increasing Image Quality in Monochrome Documents
How to print a document to a fax-compatible image without repaginating the document?
How to print images with exact size in pixels?
How to print using very large paper sizes?
How to print Oil and Gas Well Logs
How can I speed up the printing process?
How can I reduce the file size (KB)?
How can I force Black Ice printer driver to leave room for a fax header at the top of the page?
Why did the Black Ice Printer Settings changed?
Does the printer driver support Multi-threading?
Cannot change paper size permanently in Microsoft Office 2010 products
Setting user-based output directory with Environmental Variables
I cannot find my printed documents
Cannot install Printer Driver because a reboot is pending on the system
Activating the Messaging Interface
The Printed PDF document name does not match with the converted File name
The Printed PDF is rotated with 90 degree when printing from Adobe Reader
The Printer Driver DPI (Resolution) changes and will not hold 200 DPI.
Disabling or Enabling Tabs on the Printer Driver Printing Preferences
Preconfigure the Start Application option with a Custom Parameter for MSI installation
Printing PostScript files to Black Ice Printer Drivers
How can I troubleshoot printing problems?
How to generate a detailed debug log (EDF) file
How to share the Printer Driver
How can one find the output file when printing from shared printers?
Printer Driver does not generate any output when the filename exceeds the 260 character limit
The Printer Driver is not saving the Printer Settings
How to force the Printer Driver for manual registration by changing the network settings
Printing problem when using Remote Desktop with Terminal Services Easy Print.
Changing the printer name causes the driver to revert to default settings.
I am not able to uninstall the Black Ice Printer Driver - Fail to load dll.
Cannot uninstall the Printer Driver from Control Panel: The uninstall will exit
Set the default settings for all users after installation on Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7.
The printer is not using the selected DPI settings.
The printer driver is not starting my application
Incorrect or gibberish characters when printing from Adobe Reader
The paper size reported by Adobe Acrobat Reader is not the same as the printer driver reports.
Setup Redirect Printing transfers different DPI settings from the physical printer.
Distorted images are put out from MS Word and Excel.
Why does the printer report the [Cannot print directly to the printer error] when printing?
Why is my output document printed upside down?
Why does the printer report an Invalid printer driver data type error when printing?
Microsoft Office Page Size Problem
Microsoft Visio printing problems
Bypass spooler using Black Ice Printer Drivers
Printing to a mapped network drive does not work.
Printer is not visible for users
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Black Ice Software LLC\ Cannot be Created] message
I Receive a Compatibility Warning when Printing from a Specific Application?
Input field limits in Black Ice Printer Driver
Text extraction does not work with Adobe 11 or higher
Export/Import Agent Printers during Printer Driver upgrade
Printing webpages from Google Chrome browser results non-searchable PDF documents
Why I receive Abort message during document conversion?
System Error 1612 when uninstalling or updating using the MSI installer