Printronix Auto ID Windows Printer Drivers

5.2.00.6860

• T6000 series supports additional RFID tag types. Before the update just EPC Gen2 (64bit) has been supported.

5.1.16.6615

• Improved positioning for barcode Code-39.

5.1.16.6562

• Printronix T6000 printer series is added into NiceLabel driver distribution.

5.1.16.6511

• Fixed spooler crash when printing from NiceLabel 2017 to a printer using Advanced TCP/IP port.

5.1.15.6474

• Port monitor crashed print spooler on the second print when using Advanced TCP/IP. This is fixed now.

5.1.13.6232

• Fixed issue with DNS IP resolution not working when printer network name is longer then 25 characters.

5.1.13.6196

• DD.MM.YY and DD.MM.YYYY (without space before year) are new printer RTC formats on DPL printers.

5.1.11.5971

• Fixed About dialog issue with garbage after name for printers with name >= 32 chars.

5.1.11.5958

• Added support for the Printronix T8000 printers. Following models added: Printronix T8204, Printronix T8206, Printronix T8208, Printronix T8304, Printronix T8306 and Printronix T8308.

5.1.11.5948

• New RTC date formats supported (MM.YYYY - 2 digit for Month and 4 digits for Year, YJJJ - 1 digit for Year and 3 digits for Day of Year ).

5.1.11.5791

• Fixed NiceLabel crash when changing the printer on Label Setup>Printer dialog and then disabling "Use advanced printer driver interface".

5.1.10.5692

• When updating drivers which have already defined their own stocks, barcode fonts or command fonts, PrnInst application failed with message box "List index out of bounds". This is fixed now.

5.1.09.5549

• Installer ends if user choose "don't install..." option in Windows warning dialog.

5.1.09.5544

• Add check box to gui. If checked the driver does not send any printer setup configuration to the printer.

5.1.08.5063

• Fixed issue where editing a stock causes an error message.

5.1.07.4926

• Printer Install Wizard supports silent installation of Port Monitor modules.

5.1.06.4818

• New languages supported are: Danish, Hebrew, Slovak and Portuguese (Brazil). Portuguese language is removed.

5.1.06.4815

• Language monitor will now retry sending data to printer 3 times before reporting an error to spooler.

5.1.06.4800

• PrnInst utility quits driver installation if user doesn't trust the publisher.

5.1.05.4788

• Driver settings are now correctly updated after being imported.

5.1.04.5100

• PrnInst didn't not work on folders with long path name. Current version support paths up to 260 (MAX_PATH) characters.

5.1.03.4633

• Help file was updated with a note that some applications can lock the driver and prevent it from being updated by a new version.

5.1.02.4507

• Fixed custom stocks selection in driver dialog: driver now correctly selects stock. This only applies to drivers version 5.1.02.4378.

5.1.02.4472

• On Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 users were not able to change language settings. Now they can change language settings if they have administrative rights.

5.1.02.4378

• Microsoft Access was reporting wrong paper names when custom stocks are defined in driver. Now it works OK.

5.1.02.4371

• After leaving an edit field the values in it are now correctly checked according to their specified minimum/maximum values and displayed in correct format for the selected measurement unit.

5.1.01.4429

• Printronix T2N 200DPI and Printronix T2N 305DPI printers are supported now.

5.1.01.4360

• Prevent occasional labeling software crash when loading labels created with NiceLabel drivers older than version 4.6.16.

5.1.01 4402

• Add a line stating the requirements needed for asian fonts to be printed correctly by the driver.

5.1.00.4354

• Cutter functionality corrected for printing from Windows applications and cutter set to cut every n labels.

5.1.00.4306

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

5.0.03.4221

• USB PnP added for PrintronixSL5304r MP printer.

5.0.03.4220

• Write tag command for RFID EPC Gen2 tags has been corrected. Now it is send always the length of data in bits and no more the maximum size of memory bank for specific data.

5.0.03.4192

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

5.0.03.4183

• 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.

5.0.00.4197

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

5.0.00.4015

• Gen2 240bit tag support added.

5.0.00.3897

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

4.6.78.3840

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

4.6.76.3792

• Wrong memory area from RFID tag was read for text or barcode field value. The whole syntax is corrected now.

4.6.76.3790

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

4.6.76.3782

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

4.6.76.3766

• 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.

4.6.76.3763

• Port monitor now reconnectes to printer after lost connection

4.6.74.3714

• Numeric GS1Databar barcode types no longer have data size requirements

4.6.72.3647

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

4.6.69.3612

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

4.6.69.3581

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

4.6.67.3555

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

4.6.66.3658

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

4.6.66.3436

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

4.6.66.3392

• 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.

4.6.65.3360

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

4.6.64.3290

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

4.6.63.3224

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

4.6.63.3217

• Users were unable to use hash (#) as text data when using internal fonts.

4.6.62.3190

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

4.6.62.3160

• User can now use Store/Recall functionality of the labeling software with latest Printronix driver. Also "Export to Printer" function can be used.The label template can contain fixed elements, variables connected to text or barcodes objects, internal counters, download graphics... At the recall time user can set the variable values and quantity.

4.6.62.3156

• Custom settings for unprintable now work correctly

4.6.59.3002

• Printer ports are now properly shown in Options dialog.

4.6.59.2995

• Changed font for Chinese Windows to SimHei.

4.6.52.2829

• 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.

4.6.51.2800

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

4.6.50.2773

• 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.

4.6.49.2747

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

4.6.49.2611

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

4.6.48.2718

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

4.6.48.2709

• 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.

4.6.45.2516

• When printing one label it is printed much quicker than in previous versions. Also when printing multiple labels, there is no more timeout delay (10sec.) before the last one is printed.

4.6.44.2492

• Following printers added:T5204R Energy Star, T5206R Energy Star, T5208R Energy Star, T5304R Energy Star, T5306R Energy Star, T5308R Energy Star, SL5204R Energy Star and SL5304R Energy Star.

4.6.43.2445

• 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.

4.6.41.2364

• Fixed occasional driver crash when printing extremely large graphics

4.6.41.2361

• Page preview icons in "Advanced Dialog" corrected.

4.6.41.2350

• Top and left print image offset added to printer settings.

4.6.37.2300

• Support was added for larger Gen2 EPC tags. User Data field can now except 512bytes of data

4.6.37.2258

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

4.6.34.2269

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

4.6.33.2236

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

4.6.30.2157

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

4.6.22

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

4.6.14

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

4.6.04

• 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.

4.6.03

• 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.

4.6.01

• 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

4.6.00

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

4.5.42

• Driver print speed optimization

4.5.39

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

4.5.37

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

4.5.35

• Following Printronix printers were added to distribution: SLPA7206, SLPA7208, SLPA7306, SLPA7308, SLPA8204 and SLPA8304.

4.5.34

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

4.5.30

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

4.5.14

• 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.

4.5.13

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

4.5.12

• 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".

4.5.11

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

4.5.10

• Changed positioning for 2D barcodes and for Code 128.
• UCC/EAN128 barcode now produces correct command on EPL printers.

4.5.09

• 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

4.5.07

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

4.5.06

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

4.5.05

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

4.5.03

• 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?"
• 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.

4.5.02

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

4.5.01

• Turkish language added

4.5.00

• 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)

4.4.73

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

4.4.69

• 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'.
• 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.

4.4.65

• Gen2 Rfid reading and printing did not work as it should. This is corrected now.
• Export label to printer works now correctly also for prompted variables,
• Encoding RFID data to User Data field on Gen2 tags did not work. This is corrected now.
• 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.
• When user prints the picture that was previously downloaded with MemMaster, picture is printed rotated 180 degrees. This is corrected now.For successful print from MemMaster on Printronix you need MemMaster version 5.2 which will be available in summer 2008.
• User can create Datamatrix and PDF417 barcode with minimim size of expansion=1. Before it was 4.Datamatrix maximum expansion factor can be 125.

4.4.64

• 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

4.4.63

• 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.

4.4.60

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

4.4.52

• DLL files for user interface translation did not include version info data.
• Labels transfered from different systems now retain their driver settings.

4.4.51

• 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.

4.4.50

• Import and export didn't work if filename and path exceeded the length of 80 characters while windows support 256 character lengths
• Fixed Y positioning of some 1D barcodes.
• Click on "Stocks" panel caused error if stock list was empty. This is fixed now.

4.4.30

• - support for preinstall on all supported platforms

4.4.01

• EndDocument escape was sent even when there was no StartDocument.
• Codepage fonts (selected in "International" dialog of driver settings) have wrong dimensions. This applies to printers with Printronix language.
• "Export to SAP" option in labelling software does not work on Printronix printers. Printer reports error
• 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.

4.4.00

• 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.
• UI for commands fonts works now properly also in Japanese language.
• Problems occured during the printing, because label width was not set up correctly
• In some rare cases streams sent to the printer had an extra "0" added in it.

4.3.72

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

4.3.70

• 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".

4.3.63

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

4.3.60

• Barcode fonts vanished instead of being imported.

4.3.59

• Microsoft Vista operating system is not mentioned in the text file that is distributed with the driver.
• Corrected positioning of 1D barcodes and following 2D barcodes: Datamatrix, PDF417, MaxiCode.
• Stocks were not imported if user didn't view the stocks dialog beforehand

4.3.56

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

4.3.55

• Corrected problem with RFID write command when printing multiple pages.
• 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.

4.3.54

• 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.
• Internal counter is supported for use with barcode and internal text.
• Corrected Y positioning for 0 and 180 barcode rotations.
• Increased timeouts for better printer status response times
• Barcode positioning has been corrected for better WYSIWYG.
• 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.
• Added new RFID tags to list of supported tags on MP2 printer models Avery ?IN? Antenna 915 MHz, Class 1 KSW ?PH58? Antenna, 868 MHz, UCode 1.19 Impinj ?Propeller? Antenna, 915MHz, Class Zuma (96 bit) Omron ?Wave? Antenna, 915MHz, Class 1 Rafsec 478, 915MHz, Class 1

4.3.53

• 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

4.3.51

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

4.3.07

• 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.

4.3.06

• Barcode fonts and command fonts are now stored in registry.
• Export to Pocket' option in labelling software does not work on some printers.
• Printing did not work on nonbidirectional printers. Printer Error was displayed the whole time

4.3.05

• Printing did not work when bidirectional was enabled

4.3.04

• 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.
• 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.

4.3.03

• Fixed missing graphics recalls in pages after the first one.
• Spooler crashed, if user had multiple bidirectional printers using the same port, while using a status monitoring application

4.3.02

• Barcode fonts are not printed
• Stocks were not imported properly or were not shown immediately after import.

4.3.01

• Korean language added.
• 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.
• Slew speed values have to be the same as general speed values. Corrections are made for 4 Printronix models: SL4M 203DPI SL4M 305DPI T4M 203DPI T4M 305DPI

4.3.00

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