Brady - Windows printer driver

Driver version 4.6.30.2157

Updates:

• Media Type selection enabled on printers without display and disabled on printers with display.
  

Driver version 4.6.26

What's new:

• Export to printer functionality is added for TSPL printers.

Driver version 4.6.15

What's new:

• New Brady printer models are supported:
  BRADY BBP11-24L
  BRADY BBP11-34L

Updates:

• Added options to turn off print optimization on printers using CAB printer language

Driver version 4.6.14

What's new:

• DPL printers have ability to print inverse text. This option is supported now also in NiceDrivers.

Updates:

• Macros 05 and 06 on Datamatrix are now supported on printer models with ZPL and DPL printer language.
• DPL printer will print unlimited labels quantity with quantity command  of 9999.

Driver version 4.6.13

What's new:

• Added new date/time options when using printer clock on CAB printers.

Driver version 4.6.11

Updates:

• Corrected printing of SSCC-18 barcode with variable data

Driver version 4.6.09

Updates:

• French translation have been updated for CAB driver language and also for some general driver dialogs.

Driver version 4.6.07

Updates:

• When exporting Code128 to the printer and using variable, the ZPL code use optimization build in the printer's firmware for optimized Code128 encoding.

Driver version 4.6.05

Updates:

• Driver sends "(00)+Data" instead of just  "00+Data" for SSCC barcode for correct encoding on ZPL printers.

Driver version 4.6.04

Updates:

• WYSIWYG for internal fonts is corrected for DPL printers.
• Brady BP 1244 and BP 1344 models have darkness range extended from 0..20 to 0..30.

Driver version 4.6.03

What's new:

• EPL printers can use option "KDU Repeat Prompt" when exporting label format to printer memory and using recall with KDU keyboard. With this option enabled, user will have to enter variable value on KDU keyborard on every recall. Option can be found on Advanced setup > Miscellaneous dialog.

Driver version 4.6.02

Updates:

• PDF417 barcode height maximum limitation is 99 and not just 24.

Driver version 4.6.01

Updates:

• Postnet barcodes has wrong expansions and are printed too big. This is corrected now and WYSIWYG is OK.
• Added Rotation to parsed text in command fonts

Driver version 4.6.00

Updates:

• Printing process was stopped during heavy duty printing.
• Barcode height is corrected for non-203 dpi printers.

Driver version 4.5.42

What's new:

• Driver print speed optimization

Driver version 4.5.40

Updates:

• Database fed empty elements from Labeling software are now printed correctly
• Offsets on CAB printers for perforation before/after label and cutting before label now allow negative values (-9.9mm - 9.9mm)

Driver version 4.5.39

Updates:

• PrnInst showed login window, even if the user running the application was administrator.

Driver version 4.5.38

What's new:

• New model added to distribution: Brady BBP81

Updates:

• TSPL printers now support also SHIFT command which can be used to fine-tune the entire label up or down from its current position.

Driver version 4.5.37

Updates:

• PrnInst can now be moved to any position (second monitor) and it will stay there. It will not jump back to its original position.

Driver version 4.5.34

Updates:

• Postnet barcode fonts can no longer have their width changed.

Driver version 4.5.33

What's new:

• Following models added to Brady distribution: BP-THT Precision 200, BP-THT Precision 300, BP-THT Precision 600, BP-PR 200 PLUS, BP-PR 300 PLUS, BP-PR 600 PLUS, PAM 3630, PAM 3660, MiniMark, BP-THT IP 300 and BP-THT IP 600.

Driver version 4.5.32

What's new:

• Graphic symbol font (GS) is supported now on ZPL printers.
  User can print Registered Trade Mark, CopyRight, Trade Mark, Underwriters Laboratories approval and Canadian Standards Association approval symbols with typing A,B,C,D or E for internal text.

Driver version 4.5.30

Updates:

• EPL printers sent cut offset in all cases (c commands). This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.5.14

Updates:

• User can use RTC offset from labeling software but the driver will send just offset in minutes for TIME format and days offset for DATE format.
  Hour/second/month/year offsets are ignored from the GUI.

• Fixed issue with forced optimization in non labeling software.
• Fixed issue with barcode fonts causing protocol error
• Added explanation for "Forced optimized printing" option

Driver version 4.5.13

What's new:

• Internal elements now get filtered out when not using labeling software and forcing optimization

Updates:

• Fixed issue with printing from word using forced optimization

• Datamatrix barcode can get negative coordinate in print stream, and also the size and WYSIWYG is not ok. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.5.12

What's new:

• Partial cut option is enabled on some TSPL models. With this option the label won't back feed when it is cut off.

Updates:

• User can select Automatic or Manual options for Job removing using keyboard in Printer Install Wizard
• There was wrong command sequance present in print stream when setting tear off/peel off/ cutter option. This is corrected now.
  There was added also cutter functionality of "Partial" cutter into some TSPL models.
• Fixed labeling software crash when turning off "Use Advanced printer driver interface".

Driver version 4.5.11

Updates:

• Fixed command sequence for export to printer

• Printer Install Wizard uninstallation of driver doesn`t remove all of the files from the SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\ folder.

Driver version 4.5.10

Updates:

• UCC/EAN128 barcode now produces correct command on EPL printers.

• Also barcodes now uses "SO2" command for first date/time offset and "SO32 command for the second and all further date/time offsets on the same label.

Driver version 4.5.09

Updates:

• Barcodes in labeling software with prompted contents are not exported correctly to the printer.

• Electonic Article Survailance was always disabled on Rfid printers
• Fixed printing of Datamatrix and QR barcode font with more then 255 character data
• Added automatic termination character for Maxicode barcode font data

Driver version 4.5.07

What's new:

• Added support for custom printer name after silently installing a printer driver from command line (/INSTPRN; /INSTMULTPRN)

Driver version 4.5.06

What's new:

• Printer Installation Wizard will be able to automaticly remove all jobs when updating printer

Driver version 4.5.05

What's new:

• Printer Install Wizard can start an application specified in the command line, after it closes.

Driver version 4.5.04

What's new:

• ZPL printers now use relative darkness escape (^MD) instead of absolute (~SD).

Updates:

• Fixed Advanced TCP/IP port to handle leading 0 in IP.

Driver version 4.5.03

What's new:

• Status monitor is able to detect port conflicts, when two printer drivers are using the same port for bidirectional communication with the printer.
  Also when user will delete or install a new printer to the system, Status Monitor will detect the change by itself.

Updates:

• When you disable the option "Use advanced printer driver interface" (in File -> Label Setup -> Printing tab) labeling software will crash with the error "GDI Failure, OK to continue?"

Driver version 4.5.02

Updates:

• PrnInst didn't set printer attributes correctly. This is fixed now.

Driver version 4.5.01

What's new:

• Turkish language added

Updates:

• Moved perforation commands in stream to avoid protocol errors

Driver version 4.5.00

What's new:

• New setting Printer default. If set, then printer will not send some settings from Options and Advanced Setup tab. This feature is useful for printers with LCD display where user would like to set printer parameters (speed, darkness...) manually.

•  - write MMF to alternative location (research)
   - update MemMaster to store files to this location
   - update driver to read from new location (make sure that the update will be backward compatible)

• New setting Printer default. If set, then printer will not send some settings from Options and Advanced Setup tab. This feature is useful for printers with LCD display where user would like to set printer parameters (speed, darkness...) manually.

• Added possibility of optimized printing of graphics from all windows software

Updates:

• ^ character can now be encoded in Code128
• FNC1 is not encoded correctly in Datamatrix barcode.
• Fixed printer error when printing different pages from windows software

Driver version 4.4.73

What's new:

• we need a utility that will completely delete the driver and all the files associated with the driver. Ideally, this would mean the registry entries as well. What we will do is to track what the ZUD uninstaller does and share that with you. This will demonstrate what we need the uninstaller to do.
  
  
  

Updates:

• Uninstall of driver package failed when running a 64bti system.

Driver version 4.4.71

What's new:

• Driver now sends driver settings only at the start of the print
  

Driver version 4.4.69

What's new:

• Checkbox "Enable bidirectional support" (Printer properties -> Ports) can now be unchecked automatically during driver installation, corresponding to the flag "Bidirectional" in .inf file.
  Bidirectional=0  =>  checkbox is unchecked.
  Bidirectional=1  =>  checkbox is checked.
  If this information is ommited, Bidirectional=1 is assumed.

Updates:

• Labelling software can now recall variables with more than 31 characters of data.

• When you click on the Help button in About dialog help is opened, but it is not linked to any page.

• Help on About dialog opens help page with contents 'This program cannot display the webpage'.
• Internal elements with Date/Time offsets in labelling application now print correctly. The problems occured on ZPL printers (applicators).

Driver version 4.4.68

What's new:

• Optimized driver printing

Driver version 4.4.67

What's new:

• Implementation of Rfid Read and store for ZPL printers

Updates:

• Fixed IMG compression for wide graphics

Driver version 4.4.66

What's new:

• There is possible in ZPL to print counter without leading zeros. This can be done with NL communication because this setting should driver get from NL.
  
  

Updates:

• Now user don't need to create a start value of "001" to count from 1..999 on ZPL printers with printer's internal counter, but can set just "1" and counter will not stay at just one digit like before. But user have to set in this case tha maximum length of counter to 3 ! In this case leading zero's will not be printed, so if you want leading zero's you still have to imput 001 for example.
  WYSIWYG for non-leading zero's counters is not accurate because the printer gets the maximum counter length data and this can not be improved.

Driver version 4.4.65

Updates:

• Export label to printer works now correctly also for prompted variables,

• EPL printers support now also day offset for internal printer clock.
  It is possible to use internal date & time also on barcode element from now on.

Driver version 4.4.64

Updates:

• Removed Help button as no help is available.

• Export to printer didn't work properly. There was a wrong slot number in the exported print stream.
• New Japanese translation for Printer Install Wizard

Driver version 4.4.63

Updates:

• Downloaded fonts allways print in the same size, even if you resize them.
• DL of graphics on LPT port doesnt work correctly, when printing you get an empty screen
• When user starts Printer Install Wizard the application is shown but without focus

• Changed default number for cutting to 1 label instead of 0.

Driver version 4.4.62

What's new:

• Added new cutter commands to support new PCU4 cutter unit.
• Added new options to some printers: ingnore label position, ignore paper end, top side same as bottom, single buffer mode, top to bottom offset
  

Updates:

• Command "c" (immediate cut) is not recomended and therefore it is disabled.
• Corrected Print mode setting command for export

Driver version 4.4.61

Updates:

• Rfid Read and Print is not working correct. When printing a barcode with values stored in the rfid tag, only a couple of "?" characters are printed.

Driver version 4.4.60

What's new:

• Changed file info for Printer Install Wizard

Updates:

• Default value for Always use default settings is not correct when instaling it the driver with a configuration file attached.

Driver version 4.4.55

Updates:

• Incorrect stream is sent to printer when encoding Rfid Gen2 tags

Driver version 4.4.53

Updates:

• Read and Store functionality is not enabled on Rfid printers

Driver version 4.4.52

What's new:

• DLL files for user interface translation did not include version info data.

Updates:

• Labels transfered from different systems now retain their driver settings.

Driver version 4.4.51

Updates:

• Increased lenght for filename and path in import and export of settings.
• POSTNET barcodes have a fixed height and width, but the interface allows the user to change these dimensions. 

Driver version 4.4.50

Updates:

• Import and export didn't work if filename and path exceeded the length of 80 characters while windows support 256 character lengths
  
• Click on "Stocks" panel caused error if stock list was empty. This is fixed now.

Driver version 4.4.30

What's new:

• - support for preinstall on all supported platforms

Driver version 4.4.01

Updates:

• EndDocument escape was sent even when there was no StartDocument.
• "Tear Off" adjustment edit field is enabled all the time, no matter which operation mode is used. Before it has been enabled just when "Tear Off" operation mode was used.
• If driver gets no separator character description for decimal number from the OS, driver puts a "+" or "," string as default character. The result was seen for page size (example)
  Now the dot character "." is set for default separator in this case.
  

Driver version 4.4.00

What's new:

• 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.
• In some rare cases streams sent to the printer had an extra "0" added in it.

Driver version 4.3.73

What's new:

• Recall added for Zebra printers.

Updates:

• Using 'Export to Printer' option in Labelling software creates wrong contents for maxicode barcodes. This only happens if barcode has variable contents.

Driver version 4.3.72

What's new:

• Implementation of Rfid Read and store for ZPL printers
• Added full Gen2 support for ZPL printers

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.3.71

Updates:

• Media type selection (Properties>Advanced setup>Other) has been added some time ago for all Datamax printers. But we have found some problems with this option for some printer models with display on printer's control panel. The problem is that printer resets itself when gets the command "KcXXX", so this option has been disabled for I-Class and W-Class printers.
  

Driver version 4.3.70

Updates:

• ^MMC command has been sent twice when exporting the label to the prrinter. This is corrected now and it is sent to the printer just once.
  ^MMC is a command for using cutter. If you select for "Operation Mode" Tear off the "^MMT" is sent and for Peel off "^MMP" command is sent.
• 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".

Driver version 4.3.63

What's new:

• Added data format accepted values for ZPL printers. Accepted values can be in ASCII or HEX format.

Updates:

• Port monitor crashed when setting up port details (IP and port number)

Driver version 4.3.60

Updates:

• 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:

• Advanced cutter option not working on some printers
• Applicator didn't work on PPLZ printers. This is corrected now.
• 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 available 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.

Driver version 4.3.54

What's new:

• Corrected speed settings for following models: TLP2844, LP2844, TLP2824, LP2824. Additional JJJ date mask was added for printers that support Julian Date.

Updates:

• While installing a printer driver on certain systems the spooler crashed.
• "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:

• 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 4.3.51

What's new:

• Driver can now override the default document settings of some applications with driver default settings (set up in printer spooler)

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.

Driver version 4.3.06

What's new:

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

Updates:

• Printing did not work on nonbidirectional printers. Printer Error was displayed the whole time

Driver version 4.3.05

Updates:

• Printing did not work when bidirectional was enabled

Driver version 4.3.04

What's new:

• 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.

Updates:

• When user changed printer's port, the printing was no longer possible until reboot.
• 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)
• Bug fixed, where some changes on stocks updated default umprintable area values.
• Drivers with Unicode fonts do not show internal fonts on Windows Vista.

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

Updates:

• Changed window handling so that port monitor setup windows can appear on Vista
• Codabar barcode for ZPL printers should have ratios 1:3, 1:2 and 2:5 enabled.

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