TOSHIBA - Windows printer driver

Driver version 4.4.00

What's new:

• Bidirectional hooks in driver can now be disabled
• 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.
• Added support for status "printed" on certain printers when syncronized mode printing is used

Driver version 4.3.73

Updates:

• Stress test in DTM failed
• Driver can now report to labelling application that it supports 'Transportation Data Format Header' on structured MaxiCode barcode.
• RFID Database plugin - Excessive data is written to the database

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 4.3.71

Updates:

• Advanced Port monitor didn't handle errors on receive
  

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.
  

Driver version 4.3.63

Updates:

• Changed handling of printer capabilities to avoid DTM test failure
• Port monitor crashed when setting up port details (IP and port number)

Driver version 4.3.62

Updates:

• Punch offset is being sent if the label was made with older Avery drivers.
  Media type was not sent when punch offset was disabled.
  

Driver version 4.3.60

Updates:

• Correction of barcodes which failed 4.3.xx version of drivers tests.
• 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 4.3.58

Updates:

• Rfid field types IDs are set as consecutive numbers instead flags.
  - This will cause a backward compatibility issue with older labels. User will have to recreate the rfid elements on the label

Driver version 4.3.56

Updates:

• Following barcodes has been corrected:
  POSTNET 32, POSTNET 37, POSTNET 52, POSTNET 62, PDF417.
  Now all this barcodes are printed as graphics.
• 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.
• Inf changes as suggested by DTM testing
• "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:

• Fixed LAN port monitor User interface name so it doesn't call the wrong one
• 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 4.3.50

What's new:

• PrnInst is copied from H:\NiceDist\EXEs\PrnInst\PrnInst.exe

Updates:

• Added recognition of OEM file labels
• Darkness controll for multiple print heads was not possible from labeling software.

Driver version 4.3.08

What's new:

• Updated contents.

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.
• Incorrect publisher is set in Status Monitor installation

Driver version 4.3.06

What's new:

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

Updates:

• Added defines for handling darkness from NL for each available print head separately.
• Printing did not work on nonbidirectional printers. Printer Error was displayed the whole time

Driver version 4.3.05

What's new:

• ...it is year 2007 now...

Updates:

• Fixed texts on dialogs
  Added hourglass icon when port monitor is attempting to connect
  Added option to use IP that you can't connect to at that moment
• Printing did not work when bidirectional was enabled

Driver version 4.3.04

What's new:

• "Stocks" tab is hidden where it's not working.
• 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.
• Added parameters so user, when downloading driver from web, can see if printer is BiDir, RFID, has counters, export and download.

Updates:

• When user changed printer's port, the printing was no longer possible until reboot.
• IP is not show in 64 bit systems due to small buffer size
• 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)
• Print job was not sent to printer in certain cases. The job needed to be manualy deleted from spooler and the spooler needed to be restarted to print at all
• Bug fixed, where some changes on stocks updated default umprintable area values.
• Chech language disabled
• Spooler memory size is increasing to infinity

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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