What's new in AutoPrint 8.12.12
Apr 15, 2024
- Improved Database access verification check during startup sequence
- Improved ZIP-file processing significantly accelerated after removing safety delay periods
New in AutoPrint 8.12.11 (Mar 15, 2024)
- New Deep print channel live test is available during setup.
- Checks the whole process path and provides a comprehensive print process report.
- Improved Computer name can be added to email reports
New in AutoPrint 8.12.10 (Dec 27, 2023)
- Fixed stability issue: frozen print channel activity after rare transient inter-process communication faults.
New in AutoPrint 8.12.9 (Dec 4, 2023)
- Stability update for handling rare but challenging situations after disturbed cloud folder access or
New in AutoPrint 8.12.7 (Oct 31, 2023)
- Improved: Printer status monitoring can be disabled. This allows AutoPrint to continue feeding the Windows printer spooler, while the physical printer is halted for user interaction.
New in AutoPrint 8.12.6 (Oct 18, 2023)
- Print channels now accept ZIP files as input. The entire contents are extracted and printed one after the other.
New in AutoPrint 8.12.5 (Jul 30, 2023)
- New Print jobs can be auto-routed to a defined backup print channel in case of a printer failure
- New TXT files can be directly send as raw data to special printers, like Zebra ZPL-code label printers
- Improved Possible stability issues during interrupted spooler-to-printer transfer handled
New in AutoPrint 8.12.4 (Apr 23, 2023)
- Improved Blocking issues in critical networks resolved. Especially while processing incomplete print-files and files with limited access properties, like read-only flagged files, the affected print channel was likely to enter a frozen state
- Improved The setup- and operating database can be moved from the Windows default folder to any user-defined location
New in AutoPrint 8.12.3 (Mar 26, 2023)
- New:
- Files in synchronized cloud attached folders are now recognized
- Improved:
- Minor changes in Setup - GUI
New in AutoPrint 8.12.2 (Mar 20, 2023)
- Improved:
- Print channel stability when directly feeding input files from slow web or cloud services or through web browsers has been significantly improved
New in AutoPrint 8.12.1 (Mar 15, 2023)
- New: Enhanced preview / print page setup window for more intuitive scaling work with higher precision
- New: Continuous system memory load balancing for improved OS stability under high concurrent printing loads
- Improved: Static objects like masks, watermarks or frames can now be freely positioned and scaled, opacity added
- Fixed: Several minor flaws in the setup flow
New in AutoPrint 8.10.1 (Feb 10, 2023)
- New Replaced graphic processing kernel including filters for excellent scaling quality
- New PDF-processing engine replaced to maintain current and future standard compatibility
- New Sleeping print channels can be activated for single jobs by command line parameter
- Fixed Rendering issues with new type of PDF-files containing QR-code objects
- Removed PDF 'Direct print' option, all PDF pages are now rendered into memory
- Changed Free License pattern now limited to 25 print-jobs per day rather than per application start
- Many minor GUI improvements
New in AutoPrint 8.6.2 (Nov 23, 2022)
- New: execution of an application-file/link added as possible error notification action (desktop-application mode only)
- New: static range of print-pages can be preset (print channel option for TIF/PDF multipage-documents)
- New: defined pause after each print process (print channel option)
- Fixed: encryption DLLs were not supplied through installer (email-host addressing)
New in AutoPrint 8.6.1 (Jun 14, 2022)
- Redesigned main GUI for a more informative print channel monitoring
- New: comprehensive live-help system added to the setup area
- New: barcode and QR-code objects can be added to all printed pages
- File sorting function improved (was disturbed after processing error situations)
- File mask including wildcards can be added to input file folders
- Latest Windows access policy updates do no more affect AutoPrint, when operated from different user accounts
- Improved: temporary printer access issues are now being handled more relaxed, rather than burst-firing error messages (E400)
- Fixed bug: input files were ignored after a temporary printer access (E400) recovery
- Further improved stability in high latency and web-based environments
New in AutoPrint 8.5.1 (Mar 19, 2022)
- A static input file name can be defined
- HTM(L) file type added to the scope of processed input file types
- Input files are being sorted by name at print channel operation start
- Operation under limited user account improved
- Different service owner accounts are better supported
- Virtual machines added to license agreement
New in AutoPrint 8.03 (Oct 7, 2021)
- Smaller setup window supports legacy server monitors.
- Process logging into local file AutoPrint.Log.
New in AutoPrint 8.01 (Jul 25, 2021)
- Completely rebuild processing engine for further improvement of speed and overall stability
- New multithreading and parallel processing kernel enables new speed dimensions on today’s multi-core CPUs. Print jobs are now being started instantly on file input rather than one job after the other.
- Each printer can be fed concurrently by multiple print-channels.
- Each print-channel can hold individual printer settings, like number of copies, paper size, print quality or output tray selection. This feature is now included in all 3 license types.
- New setup GUI for easier and faster print-channel creation.
- Live setup: during setup work the current print-channel processes remain active.
- No more desktop flickering on print-channels addressing different printers (application mode)
- Improved live processing monitor, for both, application mode and service mode
- New email notification option provides periodic and/or instant reporting on process summaries and eventual errors.
New in AutoPrint 7.06 (May 11, 2020)
- Advanced layout settings for raw text files:
- Codepage identifier if text is based on an ANSI character set
- Line spacing variable rather than 1.5 fixed
- Printer page order can be set to reversed (PDF-files only)
New in AutoPrint 7.05 (Mar 12, 2020)
- Optimized PDF-dataprint job organization:
- All pages of a multipage document are collected to one spooler print-job, when processed through intermediate bitmap graphics.
- Bug fix: minor memory leak fixed (eventually relevant after printing of thousands of documents, in Versions from 7.01 to 7.04).
New in AutoPrint 7.04 (Jan 28, 2020)
- Exchanged internal PDF-rendering unit, now from PDFium:
- Contains further speed improvements and adjustments related to recent PDF-standard developments
- Zero-length input files are being ignored (as option)
- Text input files can be interpreted as UTF16-LE type
- Print processing can be limited to selected types of input files
- Several further minor improvements and bug fixes
New in AutoPrint 7.03 (Sep 27, 2019)
- TIF-files rendering unit exchanged for improved compatibility and printing quality
- Random blank pages issue while printing multi-page TIF-files fixed
- Several further minor improvements
- Windows user default printer can be selected for print channel
- Reduced setup window size supporting small size monitors
- Several further minor improvements and bug fixes
- Print channel activity monitoring in the AutoPrint main screen
- Input-files may be drag&dropped directly from other file listings
- PDF-files may now be rendered down to the physical target printer bitmap size, resulting into higher processing speed and quality,
- especially for vector based drawings
- New internal bitmap processing level introduced resulting into new and more flexible scaling and merging options
- Semi-transparent (alpha-channel png-files) watermark images and borders can be added to the main graphics
- Individual watermark images and borders can be defined for each print-channel
- Completely changed and high quality print-preview windows
- Instant visual feedback for many graphic setup-options
- New Load balancing option allows shared printing through multiple printers
- Incomplete or corrupted print channel setups do no more accidently overwrite former almost perfect setups
- Many further minor improvements and bug fixes
- Updated internal PDF-rendering unit:
- Contains several speed improvements and some bug fixes related
- to PDF-data processing
- More flexible layout settings on the setup tab:
- Any individual paper size beyond the printer driver defaults can be defined
- AutoPrint can be set to ignore the current printers paper size
- Both items also help managing situations when printer-drivers are not accepting commands.
- Complete log files can be frequently saved without truncation.
- More flexible layout scaling on the application main page
- Added direct information and help links on the About window
- Graphic files can automatically be centered on paper
New in AutoPrint 3.07 (Sep 13, 2006)
- bug-fix: MS Wordviewer printout failed