Godex - Windows printer driver

Driver version 5.1.01.4360

Updates:

• Fixed possible labeling software crash issue when loading older labels.

Driver version 5.1.00.4326

Updates:

• Fixed issue where Cancel before print could not be set back to "No".

Driver version 5.1.00.4306

Updates:

• Solved problem with multi-thread printing (sometimes the stream is not correct).

Driver version 5.0.00.4197

Updates:

• Driver help for barcode font "y dimension" updated.

Driver version 5.0.00.3897

What's new:

• All the drivers are now digitaly signed to allow installation on Windows 8.

Driver version 4.6.78.3840

Updates:

• In some rare cases driver crashed when printing a Code128 barcode. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.6.77.3808

What's new:

• Following models added to distribution: EZ2050, EZ2050 GEPL, EZ2050 GZPL, EZ2150, EZ2150 GEPL, EZ2150 GZPL, RT200, RT200 GEPL, RT200 GZPL, RT200i, RT200i GEPL, RT200i GZPL, RT230, RT230 GEPL, RT230 GZPL, RT230i, RT230i GEPL, RT230i GZPL, G300, G300 GEPL, G300 GZPL, G330, G330 GEPL, G330 GZPL, G500, G500 GEPL, G500 GZPL, G530, G530 GEPL and G530 GZPL.
  Thermal transfer mode disabled for EZ-DT2 GZPL and EZ-DT4 GZPL models.

Driver version 4.6.76.3790

Updates:

• Fixed occasional Spooler crash when printing Word document with very long filename.

Driver version 4.6.76.3782

Updates:

• Advanced Port monitor can now be added by using Windows Add New Port Type option.

Driver version 4.6.76.3772

What's new:

• User can now manual encode the Code128 when doing export to printer or general export with ZPL models.
  For this feature also NL must be updated (build after July 10th 2012).

Driver version 4.6.76.3766

Updates:

• When doing Export to SAP from labeling software the line with variable definition should not be present, like it is when doing Export to printer.
  This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.6.76.3763

Updates:

• Port monitor now reconnectes to printer after lost connection

Driver version 4.6.74.3714

Updates:

• Numeric GS1Databar barcode types no longer have data size requirements

Driver version 4.6.73.3690

Updates:

• Maximum expansion for Code128 on ZPL printers is set to 20

Driver version 4.6.72.3662

What's new:

• Applicator option added to Godex printers. Option enabled only on EZ-2xxx Plus and EZ-6xxx Plus series.

Driver version 4.6.71.3635

What's new:

• Date and time fileds are supported in GS1 barcode on ZPL printers. New date formats were added.

Driver version 4.6.69.3612

Updates:

• Driver update didn't preserve settings for all installed printers. This is fixed now.

Driver version 4.6.67.3555

What's new:

• RTC is now supported inside EAN-128 barcode on EPL printers.

Driver version 4.6.67.3533

What's new:

• Operation mode now supports a new option called "Stream".

Driver version 4.6.66.3658

Updates:

• In some case of printing big graphics (color on 64-bit OS for example) the graphic elements could be missing. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.6.66.3436

Updates:

• Obsolete monitor.inf files were removed from drivers that still had them

Driver version 4.6.66.3392

What's new:

• Removed warning message for special ports, when installing printer driver with Printer Installation Wizard.
  
  If connected to standard Windows TCP/IP port then show warning message.

Driver version 4.6.66.3379

Updates:

• Error message shows when doing Export to RedPrairie or General Export and on the label UPC or Postnet barcode was used.

Driver version 4.6.65.3360

Updates:

• Printer error detailes were missing while printing. The status reporting issue was limited to NicePrintQueue, Enterprise Print Manager(EPM) and NiceLabel.

  
  

Driver version 4.6.64.3290

What's new:

• Advanced TCP/IP port monitor now supports connections to names as well as IP addresses.

Driver version 4.6.64.3284

What's new:

• UPC-A is sent without check digit to the ZPL printer, because printer add the check digit by itself.
  UPC-E has been already work in this way. The reason is that old ZPL printers take the last 11 digits for data and not first 11 digit (of 12) for data.

Driver version 4.6.64.3252

What's new:

• Pause printer command added in Batch printing actions

Driver version 4.6.63.3224

Updates:

• Rotation option on userinterface and QR and MicroQR barcode font rotation now work correctly

Driver version 4.6.62.3190

Updates:

• Spooler crash when changing printer port while printing was fixed.

Driver version 4.6.62.3187

Updates:

• Cutting after specific number of labels now works from all software.

Driver version 4.6.62.3170

What's new:

• If user sets the RFID transponder offset in the printer setup, this could cause a problem with the printer because the offset causes, that much of the label does not get printed whenever the elements is sent after the RFID command. Everything that is send before the RFID command, prints fine. Now we have change the print stream, that RFID command is always the last of all elements. In this case there is no problems with the print getting cut off.

  
  

Driver version 4.6.62.3156

Updates:

• Custom settings for unprintable now work correctly

Driver version 4.6.59.3002

Updates:

• Printer ports are now properly shown in Options dialog.

Driver version 4.6.59.2995

What's new:

• Changed font for Chinese Windows to SimHei.

Driver version 4.6.52.2832

What's new:

• User is now able to select the option for internal RTC which allows printer to use the time read from RTC when the label is printed and not use the time of first label. The option could be found on "Advanced Setup > Other" dialog.

Driver version 4.6.51.2800

What's new:

• Czech, Lithuanian and Ukrainian languages are now supported also in all NiceDrivers.
  
  

Driver version 4.6.51

What's new:

• Wrong command is used for locking RFID tag.

Driver version 4.6.50.2773

Updates:

• When printing from standard Windows application (like Microsoft Word) and using page rotation (Landscape and/or rotate 180), positions of graphic were shifted relative to internal elements.
  Shift size depends on page dimensions, shift direction depends on rotation.
  

Driver version 4.6.50.2756

What's new:

• Updated EPC RFID commands.

Driver version 4.6.49.2747

What's new:

• PrnInst utility was updated so that long INF file structure is supported.

Driver version 4.6.49.2611

Updates:

• When trying to preinstall drivers on Windows 7, user got an "Environment incorrect" error message. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.6.48.2645

What's new:

• Added Aztec and GS1 Datamatrix barcodes. GS1 Datamatrix barcode works from NiceLabel version greater than 5.2.2865. Please check also your printer's firmware version if support these barcodes.

Driver version 4.6.48.2644

Updates:

• Memory slots correction for P4T and RP4T. Only Flash RAM is available from now on.

Driver version 4.6.48

What's new:

• PDF417 code was not able to rotate. This is supported now.
  Also positioning of rotated 2D codes is corrected. (PDF417, Datamatrix)

Driver version 4.6.47.2580

What's new:

• Godex's new printer language GZPL support added. Following models added: EZ-DT2 GZPL, EZ-DT4 GZPL, EZ-1105 GZPL, EZ-1305 GZPL, EZPi-1200 GZPL, EZPi-1300 GZPL, EZ-2200 Plus GZPL, EZ-2300 Plus GZPL and EZ-1100 Plus GZPL.
• Godex EZ-2200 Plus GEPL and Godex EZ-2300 Plus GEPL models added to distribution.
  Added missing USB PnP ID's for following models:
  Godex EZ-1100 Plus GEPL, Godex EZ-1105 GEPL, Godex EZ-1200 Plus GEPL, Godex EZ-1300 Plus GEPL, Godex EZ-1305 GEPL, Godex EZ-DT2 GEPL, Godex EZ-DT4 GEPL, Godex EZPi-1200 GEPL and Godex EZPi-1300 GEPL

Driver version 4.6.47.2571

What's new:

• Cancel before print option added to ZPL printers. Command cancels all format commands in the buffer. It also cancels any batches that are printing.

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 4.6.43

What's new:

• Godex HD90 printer added.

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 4.6.37.2258

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.6.33.2236

Updates:

• All 1D barcodes on EPL printer do not have limitation for maximum height set to 600dots anymore. Limitation is now set to 1200 dots.

Driver version 4.6.22

What's new:

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

Driver version 4.6.14

Updates:

• Macros 05 and 06 on Datamatrix are now supported on printer models with ZPL and DPL printer language.

Driver version 4.6.08

What's new:

• Following models added : EZPi-1200, EZPi-1300, EZ-1105 and EZ-1305.

• Following GEPL models added : EZ-1100 Plus GEPL, EZ-1200 Plus GEPL, EZ-1300 Plus GEPL, EZ-DT2 GEPL, EZ-DT4 GEPL, EZPi-1200 GEPL, EZPi-1300 GEPL, EZ-1105 GEPL and EZ-1305 GEPL.
  

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 4.6.03

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:

• Added Rotation to parsed text in command fonts

Driver version 4.6.00

Updates:

• Printing process was stopped during heavy duty printing.

Driver version 4.5.42

What's new:

• Driver print speed optimization

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 4.5.32

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.

Driver version 4.5.13

Updates:

• 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

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

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:

• New printers: EZ-2S, BZB-2

• 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

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)

Updates:

• ^ character can now be encoded in Code128
• FNC1 is not encoded correctly in Datamatrix barcode.

Driver version 4.4.73

Updates:

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

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 4.4.67

What's new:

• Implementation of Rfid Read and store for ZPL printers

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.
  
  

• New Godex supported printer models are:
  EZ-1100 Plus
  EZ-1200 Plus
  EZ-1300 Plus
  EZ-2200 Plus
  EZ-2300 Plus
  EZ-6200 Plus
  EZ-6300 Plus
  

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:

• 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.

• New Japanese translation for Printer Install Wizard

Driver version 4.4.63

Updates:

• 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

Updates:

• 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

What's new:

• Following models added to family:
  EZ-6200, EZ-6300, EZ-DT2 and EZ-DT4

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 4.3.70

What's new:

• Currently Godex driver prints graphics elements with store -> recall way. But with this type for every graphic printer "beeps" which is very annoying. Now it is implement new type of graphic printing called ?Direct print? which works without ?beeping?. This type of graphic printing is selected by default.
  
  
  

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.

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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