METO - 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 5.0.03.4192

What's new:

• QR barcode is supported on DPL printers.
  Prefix and suffix enabled for counters.

Driver version 5.0.03.4183

What's new:

• Date offset is now supported on RTC for DPL printers. Offset is set in days.
  The limitation is one RTC variable with offset on the label.
  Offset does not work with time variable because of printer firmware limitation.

Driver version 5.0.02.4086

Updates:

• Removed head up functionality for all Toshiba/TEC printers except SX models. This option is enabled on driver's advanced setup dialog just on SX printers.

Driver version 5.0.02. 4074

What's new:

• Internal counter can be used now also on barcode elements for Toshiba TEC printer language. This is not true for 2D barcodes.

Driver version 5.0.00.4197

Updates:

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

Driver version 5.0.00.3962

What's new:

• Tear bar adjustment functionality in Toshiba/TEC driver's advanced properties causes random paper jams because it does not perform head-up when reversing and forwarding the label.
  This is updated now with additional head up option on advanced setup dialog.

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 4.6.76.3790

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 4.6.76.3763

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 4.6.72.3647

Updates:

• German translation for Tear Off Distance was Abrißabstand, which was wrong. We corrected this translation to Abrisskante.

Driver version 4.6.69.3622

What's new:

• Additional sensor type option is supported: Reflective (manual threshold)

Driver version 4.6.69.3612

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.6.69.3581

Updates:

• DPL Vector fonts (CG Times, CG Triumvirate) printed from other Windows applications and not from labeling software were positioned wrong. This is corrected now.

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 4.6.66.3486

Updates:

• Fixed issue with parts of previous graphics remaining on label when printing variable true type text

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 4.6.65.3360

Updates:

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

  
  

Driver version 4.6.64.3299

Updates:

• Speed setting above 10"/s didn't work properly. This is fixed now.

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 4.6.63.3224

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 4.6.62.3156

Updates:

• Custom settings for unprintable now work correctly

Driver version 4.6.60.3059

What's new:

• Cut/Strip position option has been enabled no matter on selection of issue mode. It could be selected with batch or strip mode for issue on driver's advanced setup dialog.
  The GUI has been updated in a way that batch mode is selected always when the cutter is used. Strip mode cannot work together with cutter.

Driver version 4.6.59.3008

What's new:

• New batch action is implemented. User have now an option for action after last label in a batch, and new option (just cutter option has been available for now) is "Pause printer". This option is available just from labeling software and could be used now on TEC or Toshiba printers.

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 4.6.55.2911

What's new:

• Positining on Toshiba/TEC 600 DPI printer has been updated.

Driver version 4.6.52.2829

Updates:

• In old driver peel and dispense option didn't work if label present sensor check box wasn't checked. This is corrected now. If user selects peel or dispense, label present sensor check box is automatically checked.

Driver version 4.6.51.2800

What's new:

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

Driver version 4.6.50.2773

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 4.6.49.2747

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 4.6.48.2718

Updates:

• Cut on last element is available only if no sensor is selected.

Driver version 4.6.48.2709

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 4.6.43.2445

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 4.6.41.2364

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 4.6.34.2269

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.6.34

What's new:

• Setting for RFID position adjustment has been added to the advanced settings dialog on TOSHIBA/TEC printers.

Driver version 4.6.31.2187

Updates:

• When encoding RFID data to TEC printer and Error was displayed on the printer.

Driver version 4.6.30.2157

Updates:

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

Driver version 4.6.24

Updates:

• User can now select any "Aspect Ratio" in Labeling software on Datamatrix barcode for TEC or TOSHIBA printers. Printer will print this barcode as internal element. Depend on barcode aspect ratio, Datamatrix is printed as square or rectangle.

Driver version 4.6.23

Updates:

• 600 dpi TEC printers have resolution basically 609 dpi.

Driver version 4.6.22

What's new:

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

Updates:

• 2D barcodes (Datamatrix, PDS417,..) ware missing after printing the first page. This is corercted now.

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 4.6.04

Updates:

• Printing internal Maxicode and PDF-417 now works.

• The internal date/time fields could only be used with the internal fonts Datamax1 and Datamax2. When you used any other internal font (including CG Times), the internal date/time didn't get printed. This is corrected now.

• WYSIWYG for internal fonts is corrected for DPL printers.

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.
• RFID Data write is corrected for "non Gen 2" tags. Address parameter is described with 3 digits and Tag type is corrected.
• Barcode height is corrected for non-203 dpi printers.

Driver version 4.5.42

What's new:

• Driver print speed optimization

Driver version 4.5.41

What's new:

• Added Rfid Permanent Locking for Tec Printers

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 4.5.33

Updates:

• Rfid setup and tag position settings removed from the stream send to the printer.

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 4.5.09

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 4.5.03

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

What's new:

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'.

Driver version 4.4.67

Updates:

• Variable elements no longer erase random part of labels.

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 4.4.62

Updates:

• Obsolete commands are sent to the printer when encoding Rfid tag
• Leading zerros are missing in one parameter in Rfid Lock command

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 4.4.52

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.
• 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 4.3.72

Updates:

• Sometimes a print stream is not send to the printer, and it stays stuck in the spooler
• Error occured when encoding to Gen2 Rfid tags

Driver version 4.3.70

Updates:

• Error occurred when variable internal text element was placed on the label and in the database some records were empty. In this case text from previous label was repeated.
  
  This error was present only on some printers.
  
• 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

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:

• 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:

• 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

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.

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

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