HSM Informatik AG (Switzerland) and Informatik Inc. (USA) join forces and present the latest in TIFF printer driver and PDF printer driver technology. Informatik Image Driver runs much faster and more reliably than other PDF drivers and TIFF drivers. It installs easily in less than 10 seconds and the program file is less than 500k. The multipage TIFF or serialized single-page TIFF output files are format compliant with the strictest industry standards, including Filenet, Dialogic, etc. Full support for Windows 2000, 2003 Server, XP, Windows Terminal Server, Citrix (special version).

Informatik Image Driver ( PDF / TIFF printer driver ) is a useful raster driver which creates TIFF and PDF files from any Windows application. It works like a standard printer driver. Simply send the Microsoft Word, PDF, Excel, text, etc. document to the TIFF driver (from the Print menu) and an industry-standard compressed multi-page TIFF or PDF file, or serialized single-page TIFF files are created.

With an optional addon formatting program you can also create JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, etc. and many different TIFF compressions (including TIFF Class F Dialogic and LZW), text annotations (with merge fields and placeholders), watermarks and other image manipulation.
The driver can be used to convert proprietary graphics formats; any file, any format that can be printed in Windows can be converted to a graphic file. Batch processing is possible in many cases with OLE Automation or with your own application. The driver is network supported.

Here are some key features of "Informatik Image Driver":

· Ultra-fast performance. Informatik's native driver creates the TIFF files directly, not via an intermediate conversion from bitmaps.
· One-step installation with Informatik's own install utility. Press a button and the driver is installed, typically in less than 10 seconds.
· Small footprint. The combined file size of the image driver is less than 500k, a fraction of the typical size of other TIFF printer drivers.
· The output TIFF preserves the page orientation and the page size of the input file.
· Unlike other drivers, Informatik Image Driver is capable of processing very large documents and practically unlimited multipage files.
· Standard Group 4 TIFF files, full packbit, B-Class G4 compatibility
· Compatible with FileNet TIFF format.
· TIFF Class F formats (complete set of standard specifications).
· Automatic file naming (source name, auto-numbering)
· Multi-page TIFF files
· Page serialization
· Page appending (for compatible formats)
· 24-bit color TIFF and JPEG output files (Versions 2.5+)
· Option for PDF file output (Versions 2.5+)
· Very large paper size, up to A0 size (Versions 2.5+)
· Sentinel file (done file) useful for batch processing (Versions 2.5+).
· Support for Windows Terminal Servers, Citrix and Remote servers (Windows 2000/2003/XP version only, also NT4 with SP5 in most cases, but try it out first)
· Page counter and other features for batch processing
· Post-application (launch of application after print job)
· Optional add-on program for dozens of other options, like most common graphics formats, sizing, text annotations, watermarks, etc.


Limitations:

· The unregistered version blanks out small portion of upper left corner of output.