ZEBRA - Windows printer driver

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 4.6.48.2642

What's new:

• Additional CPCL commands added. If user selects "Feed label after writing" and "Delay before feed" additional commands LABEL, SET-TOF and FORM are sent to printer.
  Also page width and memory size for P4T and RP4T printers was increased.
  

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 4.6.46.2550

What's new:

• Added 128 bit EPC Gen2 tag

Driver version 4.6.45.2523

What's new:

• Zebra KR403 printer added.

Driver version 4.6.44.2471

What's new:

• WYSIWYG is improved for unicode fonts.

Driver version 4.6.43.2448

Updates:

• RFID read and store functionaliy added to RZ 400 and RZ 600 models

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 4.6.41.2378

What's new:

• Japanese translation update.

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 4.6.34.2273

Updates:

• Zebra 170Xi4 printer models (200 and 300dpi) had switched resolution information. This is corrected now.
  Also PnP ID is switched.

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 4.6.15

What's new:

• Following printers added:
  110Xi4 203 dpi, 110Xi4 300 dpi, 110Xi4 600 dpi, 140Xi4 203 dpi, 170Xi4 203 dpi, 170Xi4 300 dpi, 220Xi4 203 dpi, 220Xi4 300 dpi, LP 2824 Plus (EPL), LP 2824 Plus (ZPL), TLP 2824 Plus (EPL) and TLP 2824 Plus (ZPL).

Driver version 4.6.14

Updates:

• Macros 05 and 06 on Datamatrix are now supported on printer models with ZPL and DPL printer language.
• For some commands Orientation parameter (landscape/portrait) was ignored and this should not happen, because width and height are related with orientation setting. This is corrected now and correct dimmensions are sent to the printer.

Driver version 4.6.11

Updates:

• Default Media Type is corrected on some ZPL models:
  ZM400-200dpi ZPL - (Thermal Transfer)
  ZM400-300dpi ZPL - (Thermal Transfer)
  ZM400-600dpi ZPL - (Thermal Transfer)
  ZM600-200dpi ZPL - (Thermal Transfer)
  ZM600-300dpi ZPL - (Thermal Transfer)
  H 2824-Z (Thermal Transfer)
  LP 2824 Plus (ZPL)  - (Direct Thermal )

Driver version 4.6.09

What's new:

• USB PnP Id's added for following models:
  HC100, QL 220 Plus, QL 320 Plus, QL 420 Plus, RW 220, 170PAX2 203DPI, 170PAX2 300DPI, R110PAX3 203DPI, RZ400 200DPI, RZ400 300DPI, RZ600 200DPI and RZ600 300DPI.

Driver version 4.6.08

Updates:

• Export to Red Prairie included some redundant characters (EF BB BF). Now they are excluded from the stream when exporting label to Red Prairie.

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 4.6.06

Updates:

• Enlarged User Mode field to 64bytes. It was not big enough for newer Gen2 tags.

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.
• Zebra RZ400 and RZ600 are RFID printers so RFID is enabled in the labeling software.

Driver version 4.5.42

What's new:

• Driver print speed optimization

Driver version 4.5.41

Updates:

• Maximum print width for Zebra ZM600 - EPL is corrected to 168 mm.

Driver version 4.5.40

What's new:

• Added support for permanent Locking of Rfid tags

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

What's new:

• New mobile printers P4T, P4T ZPL, and RP4T ZPL were added to the Zebra printer drivers.
  Also RZ400 200DPI, RZ400 300DPI, RZ600 200DPI and RZ600 300DPI models were added.
  

• Nice Zebra distributions merged into one.
• New RZ RFID printers.

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 4.5.31

What's new:

• Added Electornic Article Surveillance for Rfid some printers

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:

• EPL language support different expansion range. Native EPL printers  support range 1-40, but Esim from Intermec support 1-15.
  Also the WYSIWYG for all 4-rotations has been corretced.

• 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:

• 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)
• New Zebra HC100 printer
• Added printers: GK420d, GK420t, GX420d, GX420t, GX430t, GK420d EPL, GK420t EPL, GV420d, GV420t, GX420d EPL, GX420t EPL, GX430t EPL
  

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 4.4.71

Updates:

• Error happened when encoding Gen2 RFID EPC field on R110Xi printer with latest firmware.

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.
  
  

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:

• Zebra ZM400 600dpi has used 203dpi information. Now it is corrected to 600dpi.
  Zebra ZM600 200dpi has used 300dpi information. Now it is corrected to 203dpi.
  Zebra ZM600 300dpi has used 203dpi information. Now it is corrected to 300dpi.
  
• 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
• On Zebra ZM600 printers there ware wrong limitations for print width and user was able to print just 4 inch wide label. Now it is corrected to 6.6" (168mm)

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:

• Zebra H 2824-Z printer added.

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.
• 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 4.3.71

What's new:

• Fowing Zebra printers added:
  ZM400-200dpi ZPL, ZM400-300dpi ZPL, ZM400-600dpi ZPL, ZM600-200dpi ZPL, ZM600-300dpi ZPL, ZM400-200dpi EPL, ZM600-200dpi EPL
  This printers support also Unicode Swiss internal font.
  

Driver version 4.3.70

What's new:

• ZPL printers that supports RFID have additional Operation Mode enabled called RFID on Advanced Setup dialog.
  User have to select this mode if he is using RFID Tag on the label, because in other case the driver will overwrite printer settings with other operation mode.

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 4.3.57

Updates:

• Driver does not set the correct RFID type for the printer.

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.
• Zebra S4M are left positioned and not center positioned printers.
  There has been used an offset as for center positioned printers so the element positions ware wrong. This is corrected now.
  

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 4.3.52

Updates:

• Below Zebra ZPL models support just RAM and FLASH memory modules: S300,A300,T300,PA400,PT400,PA403,PT403,S400,S500,S600,T402,DA402,TLP 3844-Z,R4Mplus,R-140,R-402,R2844-Z,S4M-200dpi ZPL,S4M-300dpi ZPL,OS-214 Zip,X-2000 Zip,R-400 Zip

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:

• New RFID tags added to Zebra R110Xi HF models: TI - ISO15693 - 256bit and 2048bit, Rafsec - ISO15693 - 1024bit, Infineon - ISO15693, Philips - ISO15693

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:

• EAN14 barcode is not printed on printers with CPCL printer language.
• 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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