DATAMAX - Windows printer driver

Driver version 4.6.48.2709

What's new:

• Imaje Compact 4 printers support now also DPL (Datamax Programming Language) and they are supported also in NiceDrivers.
  New models added to distribution: DATAMAX Compact4 Mark II, DATAMAX Compact4 Mark II 300DPI, DATAMAX Compact4 Mobile Mark II and DATAMAX Compact4 Mobile Mark II 300DPI.

Updates:

• If user selected batch cut (cut at the end) the printout was not OK. This has been corrected and it looks the command for cycle cutter did not work correctly: Because of that it has been removed.

Driver version 4.6.43.2459

What's new:

• Datamax E-4205e Mark II and E-4304e Mark II printer models are supported.

Driver version 4.6.43.2445

What's new:

• User is now able to change administrator settings without reopening driver properties dialog as an elevated user. A click on the shielded button and entering the credentials is all that is needed.

Driver version 4.6.42.2390

What's new:

• All I-Class printers except I-4206 and I-4208 now support also G memory slot which is internal FLASH. Also memory slots correction for SV-3210 and SV-3306 models.

Driver version 4.6.41.2364

Updates:

• Fixed occasional driver crash when printing extremely large graphics

Driver version 4.6.41.2361

What's new:

• Page preview icons in "Advanced Dialog" corrected.
  

Driver version 4.6.38

Updates:

• When user without Administrative premissions was trying to use PrnInst, it just stalled.

Driver version 4.6.37

Updates:

• Uninstall of printer with Printer Install Wizard did not work on Windows 2003 (x64) system

Driver version 4.6.34.2269

Updates:

• Time format hh:mm:ss is not supported.

Driver version 4.6.30.2177

Updates:

• PnP ID numbers have been corrected in a way that LPTENUM and USBPRINT PnP ID is described just once in Datamax.inf file for each printer model.

Driver version 4.6.30.2157

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.6.22

What's new:

• Build number is now part of version information in About dialog

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 4.6.05

Updates:

• When using variables (counters + prompt variables), counters should be numbered separately with ID1..10.

Driver version 4.6.04

Updates:

• WYSIWYG for internal fonts is corrected for DPL printers.
• Counter definition should not be present when exporting to SAP (*pnl and *itf file). Of course just in case that counter is not used on the label format.
  

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:

• DMX M-4308 Mark II models has problems with positioning of elements on the label. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.5.39

Updates:

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

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 4.5.31

What's new:

• USB PnP Id's added to Datamax printers. For printers DMX ST-3210 and DMX SV-3210 it was only corrected.

Driver version 4.5.13

Updates:

• If user tryed to print label with large graphics on Mark II models, there was a chance that printer run out of memory.

Driver version 4.5.12

Updates:

• User can select Automatic or Manual options for Job removing using keyboard in Printer Install Wizard
• Fixed labeling software crash when turning off "Use Advanced printer driver interface".

Driver version 4.5.11

Updates:

• 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

What's new:

• Following printers added: Compact4, Compact4 300DPI, Compact4 Mobile, Compact4 Mobile 300DPI, Nova4, Nova4 300DPI, Nova4 TT, Nova4 TT 300DPI, Nova6, Nova6 TT, Nova8

Driver version 4.5.09

What's new:

• Following printers added: Compact4, Compact4 300DPI, Compact4 Mobile, Compact4 Mobile 300DPI, Nova4, Nova4 300DPI, Nova4 TT, Nova4 TT 300DPI, Nova6, Nova6 TT, Nova8

Updates:

• 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

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

Driver version 4.5.00

What's new:

•  - 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.

Driver version 4.4.73

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.4.69

What's new:

• - RLE graphics compression is added
  - inline graphics
  - binary transfer
• 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'.

Driver version 4.4.66

What's new:

• New dot positioning is implemented. User is able to change between new (in dots) and existing (1/10 mm) positioning with command y22.

Driver version 4.4.65

Updates:

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

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 4.4.60

What's new:

• Changed file info for Printer Install Wizard
• Two new printers added:
  M-4206 Mark II
  M-4210 Mark II
  

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.4.52

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.

• When using printer template export in File->Export menu of labelling application you get the following error: "An error occured during printer template export".
  This problem applies to EasyPlug and Labelpoint printers, templates that use "Variables" field and labels with variable Unicode fonts.

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

What's new:

• Store/Recall funcionality corrected for M-Class printers.

Updates:

• EndDocument escape was sent even when there was no StartDocument.
• 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.
• In some rare cases streams sent to the printer had an extra "0" added in it.

Driver version 4.3.73

Updates:

• There was a bug found on barcode SSCC18 (EAN/UCC128, Code128), because in case of string "338386009002153746" two bytes "02" in the middle of the data stream causes printing character " (colon). This is corrected now.

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:

• 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:

• 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

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.3.60

What's new:

• "Layout outside label" is no longer treated as an error. It will only show up as a warning.

Updates:

• Barcode fonts vanished instead of being imported.

Driver version 4.3.59

Updates:

• Driver didn't handl RSS unprintable character encoding
• 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

What's new:

• 10 new Datamax printer models are supported:
  DMX H-4212
  DMX H-4408
  DMX H-4310
  DMX H-4606
  DMX H-6210
  DMX H-6308
  DMX H-4606X
  DMX H-6212X
  DMX H-6310X
  DMX H-8308X
  

Updates:

• Spooler crashed during the installation, if there were any printers allready installed on the system.

Driver version 4.3.54

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.
• Increased timeouts for better printer status response times
• 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

What's new:

• Some printers have built in web server (for setup purposes) and labeling application can now display this information.

Updates:

• Nonprintable characters (characters below ASCII 32 like , , ) in barcodes are not correctly encoded for Labelpoint printers.
• 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

What's new:

• Printer default value can be used for X and Y position offset for printers with Labelpoint printer language.

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.
• Settings section on Advanced dialog changed.

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.

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:

• Darkness and speed settings are ignored for Labelpoint printers.
• 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

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