Avery - Windows printer driver

Driver version 4.4.00

What's new:

• Bidirectional hooks in driver can now be disabled
• Invalid stocks are now marked. User can open the Stock properties dialog and press OK to fix the problem (which is usually stock dimension). Stock size will be automatically adjusted.

Updates:

• UI for commands fonts works now properly also in Japanese language.
• On Argox PPLB printers FNC characters, present in barcode data for Code128 are ignorred now. There is unknown command how to encode this characters into Code128.
• Store/recall printing is not working on PPLA printers
• In some rare cases streams sent to the printer had an extra "0" added in it.
• Added support for status "printed" on certain printers when syncronized mode printing is used
• Character widths for EasyPlug internal fonts corrected

Driver version 4.3.74

Updates:

• Incorrect Croatian translation is used in the Advanced Setup dialog box for Punch offset.
  Punched hole is media type with holes used to determine a new label. So new translation in Croatian language for Punch offset is "Rupa" and for Punced material "Probuçen".
  

Driver version 4.3.73

What's new:

• Added functionality so the user can Read and Store Rfid data

Updates:

• Stress test in DTM failed
• Driver can now report to labelling application that it supports 'Transportation Data Format Header' on structured MaxiCode barcode.
• RFID Database plugin - Excessive data is written to the database

Driver version 4.3.72

Updates:

• Sometimes a print stream is not send to the printer, and it stays stuck in the spooler

Driver version 4.3.71

Updates:

• Advanced Port monitor didn't handle errors on receive
  

Driver version 4.3.70

What's new:

• Some drivers now support Export/Recall type of printing from labelling application.

Updates:

• Media type selection (direct thermal, thermal transfer) is added into Datamax advanced setup dialog. User will find this option in secondary dialog which can be opened by button "Other".
• Barcodes with prefix/suffix are not printed correctly

Driver version 4.3.64

Updates:

• Corrected Philips ICode SLI Rfid tag length and block locking
• Avery Philips I-Code SLI correction. First 4 blocks are not reserved any more.

Driver version 4.3.63

What's new:

• Printing labels with internal barcodes that use hardware counters together with check digit is now possible on some printers.

Updates:

• Changed handling of printer capabilities to avoid DTM test failure
• Port monitor crashed when setting up port details (IP and port number)
• There has been done some improvement of WYSIWYG for #YN fonts. The character width data are now more accurate then before.

Driver version 4.3.62

Updates:

• Punch offset is now not sent by default.
  Older labels have punch offset enabled only if the value is not 0.
• Punch offset is being sent if the label was made with older Avery drivers.
  Media type was not sent when punch offset was disabled.
  

Driver version 4.3.61

Updates:

• When UCC128 barcode font was used in the document, FNC1 was sent to the pritner although Avery Dennison printers generate FNC1 automaticly.
• Page lenght was not correct for the TTK 300dpi models.

Driver version 4.3.60

Updates:

• Correction of barcodes which failed 4.3.xx version of drivers tests.
• When you use "File->Export->Export to Printer" and "For Standalone" method printer displays an error and does not print.
  This happens when label contains internal barcodes and printer with EasyPlug language is used.
• Barcode fonts vanished instead of being imported.

Driver version 4.3.59

Updates:

• Microsoft Vista operating system is not mentioned in the text file that is distributed with the driver.
• Stocks were not imported if user didn't view the stocks dialog beforehand

Driver version 4.3.56

Updates:

• Barcode ratio values are not shown in Barcode Fonts dialog. This only happens when you are editing existing barcode font.

Driver version 4.3.55

Updates:

• Cut position control is always availabe now, but the command is sent just when the cutter is used. With this control user can change the cut position for max. +/-30 dots.
• Spooler crashed during the installation, if there were any printers allready installed on the system.
• Fixed barcode positions so interpretation is visible and outside of barcode.

Driver version 4.3.54

Updates:

• While installing a printer driver on certain systems the spooler crashed.
• Inf changes as suggested by DTM testing
• When using RLE compression graphics can come out too large.
• "delete" button was enabled even if the barcode/command fonts list was empty. This is fixed now.
• Export of barcode fonts didn't work properly unless user clicked on barcode fonts tab before exporting them. This is fixed now.
• Graphics are in some cases larger then they need to be making label size incorrect.
• Increased timeouts for better printer status response times
• Barcodes with '"' character on EPL printers are not printed.
• Slow printing occurred when a Not Accessible printer was found on a network. Printer status was also not received immediately.

Driver version 4.3.53

Updates:

• Fixed LAN port monitor User interface name so it doesn't call the wrong one
• Status for printers (that use bidirectionaal communication) was not correct when the printer was not physicaly connected to the computer. Status was changing between Not Accessible and Ready

Driver version 4.3.52

What's new:

• New functionality enabled by EasyPlug extensions:
  Counters Increment/Decrement
  Unicode
  Character spacing
  Bold/Italic fonts
  

Driver version 4.3.51

What's new:

• Driver can now override the default document settings of some applications with driver default settings (set up in printer spooler)
• EasyPlug extensions support for counters and standalone fields

Updates:

• When using 'Export to Printer' command in labelling software, terminator character ('#G') is missing. This applies to EasyPlug printers with 'alternate escapes' enabled.

Driver version 4.3.50

What's new:

• Downloaded TrueType fonts can now be recalled in Unicode format.
• PrnInst is copied from H:\NiceDist\EXEs\PrnInst\PrnInst.exe

Updates:

• Added recognition of OEM file labels
• First four blocks cannot be written in Philips I-Code SLI tag.
• Darkness controll for multiple print heads was not possible from labeling software.

Driver version 4.3.08

What's new:

• Updated contents.

Driver version 4.3.07

Updates:

• After viewing the Help file CHM file was locked and because of that reboot was needed to complete the installation. New version of driver will not lock the CHM any more and because of that reboot is not needed.
• Incorrect publisher is set in Status Monitor installation

Driver version 4.3.06

What's new:

• Barcode fonts and command fonts are now stored in registry.

Updates:

• Added defines for handling darkness from NL for each available print head separately.
• Printing did not work on nonbidirectional printers. Printer Error was displayed the whole time

Driver version 4.3.05

What's new:

• ...it is year 2007 now...

Updates:

• Fixed texts on dialogs
  Added hourglass icon when port monitor is attempting to connect
  Added option to use IP that you can't connect to at that moment
• Printing did not work when bidirectional was enabled

Driver version 4.3.04

What's new:

• "Stocks" tab is hidden where it's not working.
• New Port monitor is added to the distribution
• On Windows Vista there is warning displayed if user doesn't have appropriate permissions to create (or write to) certain driver files.
• Old HLP help file format was exchanged for new CHM file format.
• Added parameters so user, when downloading driver from web, can see if printer is BiDir, RFID, has counters, export and download.

Updates:

• When user changed printer's port, the printing was no longer possible until reboot.
• IP is not show in 64 bit systems due to small buffer size
• Port monitor now uses correct (64 bit) interface file on 64bit systems.
• Installation did not go through when upgrading from old printer driver, if the user had the driver connected to the Advanced Port Monitor (LAN)
• Print job was not sent to printer in certain cases. The job needed to be manualy deleted from spooler and the spooler needed to be restarted to print at all
• Bug fixed, where some changes on stocks updated default umprintable area values.
• Chech language disabled
• Avery Stocks have a negative or an extremely huge value in the unprintable area editbox
• Spooler memory size is increasing to infinity

Driver version 4.3.03

Updates:

• Spooler crashed, if user had multiple bidirectional printers using the same port, while using a status monitoring application

Driver version 4.3.02

Updates:

• Stocks were not imported properly or were not shown immediately after import.

Driver version 4.3.01

What's new:

• Korean language added.

Updates:

• Driver does not show all stocks in 'Stocks' combo box on 'Options' dialog. Missing stocks have heights that are near the maximum printer's limit.

Driver version 4.3.00

What's new:

• Corrected max label height for following printers: ALX 924, ALX 925, ALX 926, ALX 925 RFID, ALX 926 RFID, AP 7.t 200 dpi, AP 7.t 300 dpi, DPM - 04, DPM - 05, DPM - 06, DPM - 05 RFID, DPM - 06 RFID, TTX 600 200 dpi, TTX 350 200 dpi, TTX 350 300 dpi, TDI 6. Speed settings were corrected for 64-05 RFID. For DPM - 06 RFID max. material width was corrected.
  

Updates:

• Changed window handling so that port monitor setup windows can appear on Vista

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