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Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver Changelog

What's new in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.63 Revision 3143

Apr 24, 2024
  • Added the export the every Agent Printer configuration option to the Printer Manager (#17343)
  • Stability improvements for uploading documents to the web, if the target URL contains ‘?’ characters (#17390)
  • Stability improvements for opening the Printing Preferences from MSIX applications or the Windows Settings on some systems (#17437)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.62 Revision 3139 (Mar 26, 2024)

  • More accurate page size calculations, fix for a thin white border appearing on the top on certain pages and fix for overlapping pages
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.5.760

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.61 Revision 3137 (Mar 19, 2024)

  • The Printer thread count is automatically set to 3 when updating the printer drivers from the old 1 thread installs.
  • Increased maximum document name from 64 characters to 255 characters when using the “Print to File” option, or specifying the output filename in the DOCINFO Windows API structure. (#17274)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.60 Revision 3130 (Mar 11, 2024)

  • The End-User Licensed Printer Drivers use 3 threads by default (#17177)
  • Added license information and registration button for Agent Printers in the Printer Manager (#16639)
  • Renamed “Searchable Compact PDF” file format to “Searchable PDF” (#17205)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.55 Revision 3119 (Feb 28, 2024)

  • Added the “Merge Documents window” feature to the OEM Printer Driver installers (#17202)
  • Removed the “Configuration Manager” dialog from the OEM Printer Driver installers (#17203)
  • Stability improvement for the Save As window on some systems (#17186)
  • More accurate page size calculations, fix for a thin white border appearing on the bottom on certain pages (#17207)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers (#17202, #17196)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.4.759

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.54 Revision 3114 (Feb 19, 2024)

  • Stability improvement for the Merge Document Window when printing from AutoCAD (#17167)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.53 Revision 3112 (Jan 10, 2024)

  • Stability improvement for printing certain Excel documents that are printed as multiple print jobs using the Merge Documents Window (#17025)
  • Stability improvement for printing from Notepad on Windows 7 systems (#17063)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.52 Revision 3110 (Jan 8, 2024)

  • Fix for duplicated text when printing already searchable documents into the “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format (#16991)
  • Stability improvement for the Merge Documents Window when printing certain Excel documents that are printed as multiple print jobs (#17025)
  • Stability improvement for printing certain barcode fonts (#17026)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Merge Documents Window (#17015, #17016)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.3.758

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.51 Revision 3104 (Dec 18, 2023)

  • Added support for specifying environment variables between % characters (#16958)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Merge Window (#16977)
  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 13.16.996, Tesseract version 5.3.3 (#14990)
  • Updated the Rebex components to version 7.0.8720 (#16660)
  • Upgraded the Printer Driver interactive installers (InstallShield) to version 2023 R1

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.50 Revision 3097 (Dec 6, 2023)

  • Added document preview to the Merge Documents Window (#16657)
  • Added feature to reorder the documents in the Merge Documents Window (#16657)
  • Stability improvement for printing certain 1-bit images into 8-bit Grayscale PDF files (#16952)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.2.757

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.48 Revision 3091 (Nov 30, 2023)

  • Stability improvement for using end-user-defined characters (with the Private Character editor) when printing to TIFF or other image formats (#16874)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI 64-bit installers when Microsoft Print Spooler service does not start after the update (#16788)
  • Added support for changing the output path using the “Print to file” option when printing (#16952)
  • Improved character width calculation accuracy for PDF files and Improved PDF/A compliance (#16645)
  • Disabled updating if Printer Driver was registered manually (#15887)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.1.756

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.45 Revision 3083 (Sep 11, 2023)

  • Added Print Preview feature with Overlay to the Printer Driver (#16681)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI installers when updating using the PTYPE parameter (#16731)
  • Updated the End User Software License Agreements in the interactive installers
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers (#16017)
  • Removed the Save License information window from the Printer Driver interactive installers (#16735)
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.38.326

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.43 Revision 3063 (Aug 14, 2023)

  • No changes

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.42 Revision 3057 (Jul 17, 2023)

  • Added license agreements of third-party components
  • Removed the Doc file format manuals from the Printer Driver installs

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.41 Revision 3056 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • Fixed handle leak during license checking (#16602)
  • Stability improvement for installing the printer drivers on 32-bit systems (#16631)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.40 Revision 3050 (Jun 19, 2023)

  • Added “Prompt the user to select the printer during printing” option to the Redirect Printing feature (#16469)
  • Stability improvement for detecting locked files in the Printer Driver installers (#16586)
  • Stability improvement for the printer driver uninstalling when the license subscription has expired (#16588)
  • Minor user interface improvements to the Header and Footer settings (#16487, #16488)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.35 Revision 3039 (Jun 7, 2023)

  • Added support for Windows ARM systems (#15786, #16460)
  • Stability improvement for using the “Upload to M-Files” feature without the “Upload through memory” option (#16508)
  • Minor user interface improvement on the manual registration dialog (#16545)
  • Stability improvement for changing printer settings from Windows 11 Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Printers & scanners (#16548)
  • Stability improvement for writing into the Windows event log when printing without administrative privileges (#16558)
  • Updated Document Imaging SDK DLLs to version 13.10.972 (#16468)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.3.0.750
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.36.324

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.34 Revision 3017 (May 23, 2023)

  • Added option to place a watermark or stamp to the top left, top right, bottom left or bottom right corner of the pages (#16467)
  • Removed page number suffix from the filename of the first printed page when printing into single-page formats (#16464)
  • Improved palette handling for 8-bit color and grayscale images (#16462)
  • Stability improvement for the 256-bit PDF encryption. In some cases Adobe Reader was unable to open the encrypted document (#16373)
  • Minor user interface improvements, the Printer Manager shows the Base Printer name for each Agent Printer (#16443)
  • Update Document Imaging DLLs in the Printer Driver from Visual Studio 2015 to 2022 (#16468)
  • Updated Document Imaging SDK DLLs to version 13.10.970 (#16468)
  • Minor user interface modifications on the Bates Numbering tab (#16513)
  • Updated Barcode DLLs to version 7.05.31 (#16441, #16442)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.9.747

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.33 Revision 2974 (Apr 6, 2023)

  • Added TLS 1.3 support for the “Upload document to FTP” feature (#16374)
  • Stability improvement for the “Force printer DPI” option when printing from applications that try to overwrite private printer settings (#16191)
  • Stability improvement for the PDF encryption. In some cases Adobe Reader was unable to open the encrypted document (#16373)
  • Stability improvement for the licensing on some systems (Error 41 during activation) (#16423)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.8.746
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.36.322

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.32 Revision 2960 (Feb 2, 2023)

  • Stability improvement for the Merge Window in the TIFF/Monochrome printer drivers (#16187)
  • Made some of the licensing related error messages clearer (error 35) (#15890)
  • Stability improvement for starting the Print Spooler service after installing the Printer Driver using the MSI installers (#16173)
  • Writing the Print Spooler status to the Printer Driver MSI installer logs at the end of installation (#16173)
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.34.310

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.31 Revision 2956 (Jan 25, 2023)

  • Fixed: The MSI installer custom action DLL functions are not called when another Black Ice product is already installed by the MSI installer and the product has a higher version number(Critical update) (16170)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.30 Revision 2953 (Jan 18, 2023)

  • Added support for PDF cover pages (#15953)
  • Updated the Cover Pages included in the X1 Printer Drivers (#16034, #16035, #16068)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers (#16015, #16016, #15790)
  • Added separate 64-bit Interactive and Microsoft MSI installers for the Printer Drivers (#14415, #15172)
  • Stability improvement for removing the Printer Manager during uninstallation when the Printer Manager is running (#16098, #16151)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.25 Revision 2921 (Dec 1, 2022)

  • Enabled the “Rotate Landscape image to Portrait” option even if the orientation is set to Portrait, because some documents may contain mixed landscape and portrait pages
  • Stability improvements for printing into the “XML with PDF Image”, “XML with BMP”, “XML with JPEG”, “XML with PNG” and “XML with GIF” file formats when group file generation is disabled
  • Stability improvement for the OCR text output file naming when using TIFF output file format
  • Stability improvements for saving the HTTP Upload settings in the Printing Preferences, if the provided settings are incorrect
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager’s Page Layout tab
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers
  • Added missing fonts information into the Debug log (.EDF file)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.20 Revision 2907 (Oct 12, 2022)

  • New OTP (One-Time-Password) Authentication Method added to the HTTP Upload feature (#15602)
  • Renamed Page Formatting tab to Page Layout in the Printer Manager, added Paper Size, Orientation, and Resolution options (#15647)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.15 Revision 2901 (Oct 3, 2022)

  • Performance improvements for creating profiles (#15688)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the custom file naming (#15646)
  • Added the Printer Driver type to the manual registration dialog (#15707)
  • Removed the incorrect “The evaluation period has expired” message from the Printer Manager that was shown when the subscription expired (#15764)
  • Removed the incorrect “The evaluation period has expired” message from the Printer Manager that was shown when the serial number was disabled (#15770)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the evaluation version (#15706, #15724, #15725, #15726, #15727, #15728, #15729)
  • Stability improvement for the subscription-based licensing (#15763)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.11 Revision 2881 (Sep 1, 2022)

  • The password dialog is shown immediately when the “Encrypt with password” option is checked on the Save As or Merge dialog (#15635)
  • The Printer Manager shows a warning to restart the printing applications after changing settings (#15620)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.10 Revision 2877 (Aug 30, 2022)

  • Added option to prompt the user for PDF password during printing (#15552)
  • User interface improvements for the PDF encryption settings (#15612)
  • Stability improvement for changing between HTTP and HTTPS upload protocols using the Printer Manager (#15517)
  • Improved error handling when uploading documents using HTTP or HTTPS (#15005, #15519)
  • Improved logging in the HTTP/HTTPS uploader utility (#15518)
  • Added missing error text for error 360 (Unable to open document for merging.) (#15351)
  • Added the “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR (.pdf)” file format to the Merge dialog (#15604)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.05 Revision 2857 (Aug 9, 2022)

  • Added support for opening TIFF and PDF documents generated in memory in the Black Ice Tiff Viewer without writing the files to disk (#15408)
  • Stability improvement for setting the HTTP Authentication Method using the INI file for the Upload to Web feature (#15384)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Upload to Database feature in the Printer Manager (#15460)
  • Renamed the HTTP tab to HTTPS in the Printer Manager (#15456)
  • Renamed the FTP tab to FTPS-FTPES in the Printer Manager (#15459)
  • Stability improvement for loading HTTP upload settings from profiles that were generated with older printer drivers (version 16.95 or older) (#15506)
  • Removed line separator from the HTTP uploader log files (#15513)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 17.00 Revision 2851 (Jul 13, 2022)

  • Added 256-bit AES encryption support to the PDF output file format (#14685)
  • Stability improvement for using SMTP server passwords that are 16 characters or longer (#15346)
  • Changes to static license validation for subscription-based licenses (#15332)
  • Stability improvement for activation and license checking on certain systems (#15304)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.6.743
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.33.304

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.95 Revision 2838 (Jun 15, 2022)

  • The Printer Driver writes an error to the Event Log, if a temporary font cannot be registered (#15248)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.94 Revision 2836 (Jun 8, 2022)

  • Previous SharePoint password is cleared correctly if a profile is loaded which does not include a SharePoint password (#15215)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.93 Revision 2834 (May 31, 2022)

  • Changed default log directory for the email sender and all uploader uilities to the “C:ProgramDataBlack Ice Software LLC\Logs” folder (#15202)
  • Changed “Register with different serial” button to “Register with a serial number” on license error dialogs (#15205)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.92 Revision 2831 (May 24, 2022)

  • Stability improvement for closing the “Database Variables” window in the Printer Manager Upload To Database tab (#15142)
  • Stability improvement for Uploading to Database, when the “Disable Output File” option is enabled (#15180, #15201)
  • Stability improvement for printing documents from Windows Service (SESSION 0) or to a Shared Printer, and Email Sending or the Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles, SharePoint uploader is enabled (#15181, #15182, #15183, #15184, #15185)
  • The printer driver writes an error to the Event Log, if it is unable to start the Email Sender or the Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles or SharePoint uploader utilities (#15150)
  • The printer driver writes an error to the Event Log, if it is unable to write the group file or the temorary group file for any of the utilities (#15157)
  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.98.926, Tesseract version 5.1.0 (#14990)
  • Changed “Register with different serial” button to “Register with a serial number” on license error dialogs (#15205)
  • Fixed links on the Printer Manager General tab (#15190, #15192)
  • Improved Agent Printer related error messages in the Printer Manager (#14886)
  • Fix for the OCR feature getting disabled if a profile file from a 32-bit system is imported to the 64-bit driver or vice versa (#15206)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.91 Revision 2817 (May 9, 2022)

  • Stability improvement for “Start Application”, “Save As” and other printer issues when printing from applications installed from MSIX packages on Windows 11. E.g.: Notepad, Paint (#15028)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.90 Revision 2814 (Apr 26, 2022)

  • Fix for license error 350 after registering manually (#15072)
  • Corrected copyright year on the Printer Driver About dialogs (#15059, #15060)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver MSI installers on higher scaling modes or high DPI screens (#15063)
  • Fix for enabling Content-Based Email Sending using the INI file (#15073)
  • Updated Email Sending Utility to version 16.40.2617
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.30.301

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.89 Revision 2806 (Mar 25, 2022)

  • Added MO:DCA output file format (#14917)
  • Stability improvements for saving HTTP Upload settings in the Printing Preferences (#15038)
  • Version checking improvements in the licensing (#14541)
  • Fix for inverted IOCA output images (#14917)
  • Updated TIFF DLL to version 12.97.919
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.29.300

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.88 Revision 2800 (Mar 18, 2022)

  • Added new feature to upload documents to SharePoint through memory (#13296)
  • Stability improvement for PDF file output when using content-based file naming (#14998)
  • Stability improvement for configuring the HTTP Uploader in the Printing Preferences (#14993)
  • Stability improvement for the HTTP Uploader if any parameter contains invalid characters (#14996)
  • Showing “License Type” and “Installed Version” in the Printer Manager About tab (#14275)
  • Showing the remaining days of the Subscription and Maintenance in the Printer Manager (#14276)
  • Minor text changes for the Printer Manager, if the Printer Driver is not registered (#14781)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.87 Revision 2782 (Mar 2, 2022)

  • Switched Printer Drivers to subscription-based licensing.

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.86 Revision 2780 (Feb 23, 2022)

  • Added “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format that lets one create searchable PDF files from non-searchable documents, to the PDF and ColorPlus Printer Drivers (#14919)
  • Fix for printing documents that are smaller than letter size to the “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR (*.pdf)” file format (#14927)
  • Added HTTP Basic Authentication method for the Upload to HTTP feature (#14488)
  • The Email Log, Debug Log and SharePoint Log will be automatically configured for the USERPROFILE folder in Printer Manager (#12686, #12687, #12684)
  • Stability improvement for starting applications that have a path that is longer 130 characters (#14934, #14935)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.85 Revision 2770 (Feb 14, 2022)

  • Added option to automatically remove blank pages from the printed document (#14183)
  • Fix for using the “Print page(s) inverted” feature with printer redirection (#14894)
  • Fix for using the “Print page(s) inverted” feature with image file formats other than TIFF (#14908)
  • Fixed broken PDF output when using the “Use filename from page content” option (#14902)
  • Fixed incorrect error message in the Printer Manager if the license is invalid (#14914)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.82 Revision 2765 (Feb 7, 2022)

  • Added new features to upload Text and OCR along with the printed document to FTP
  • Added new features to upload documents through memory to FTP
  • User interface improvements for the Upload to FTP feature by showing the supported FTP, FTPS, FTPES, SFTP security modes
  • Improved error reporting when using the Merge dialog
  • The Printer Driver writes an error message into the Windows Event Log, if the “Start Application” feature is enabled, but the application could not be started.
  • When changing file formats using the API, the Printer Driver automatically selects a color depth supported by the file format.

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.81 Revision 2750 (Jan 24, 2022)

  • Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver installers.

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.80 Revision 2748 (Jan 13, 2022)

  • Added “Do not show this message again” checkbox to the “Are you sure you would like to start merging” message box
  • Added a new feature to upload the Text Output to the database using the Upload To Database feature
  • Stability improvement for opening the print job properties from the Print Queue window
  • Renamed the “Save configuration” button to “Save configuration for every user” on the Printer Manager Administrator tab
  • Made error message clearer in case of a connection error during updating the Printer Driver
  • Improved performance of opening the PDF Settings Font page
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.27.294

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.75 Revision 2727 (Nov 2, 2021)

  • Added “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format that lets one create searchable PDF files from non-searchable documents (#14482)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.5.739

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.72 Revision 2722 (Oct 21, 2021)

  • Automatically optimizing the Photo Quality (Dithering) settings for faxing when the “Create Faxable Image” option is used. (#14479)
  • Added “204×196 DPI Fine Fax Downscaled” option, to make small text in certain documents bolder for faxing. (#14479)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.71 Revision 2720 (Oct 11, 2021)

  • Added Floyd-Steinberg and Jarvis-Judice-Ninke high quality (larger file size) and low quality (smaller file size) dithering (#14457)
  • Removed “Custom resolution” item from the list of resolutions. Custom resolutions can be added by clicking the Edit Resolutions button. (#14440)
  • Updated BiImgUser.dll to version 12.84.843
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.4.737

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.70 Revision 2714 (Sep 28, 2021)

  • Added Ordered Clustered dithering method to the printer drivers (#14338)
  • Stability improvement for printing with the Euclid Symbol font (#14272)
  • Added special Application Layer licensing for VDI installers (#14358)
  • Manual registrations are limited to the maintenance/subscription expiration date (#14264)
  • Removed unnecessary message box in Printer Driver MSI installers when canceling the manual registration (#14314)
  • Stability improvements for the Printer Manager, if the Print Spooler service is not running (#14362)
  • Stability improvements for the Printer Driver MSI installer, if the Print Spooler service cannot be started (#14427)
  • Updated BiImgUser.dll to version 12.84.827
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.2.734
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.23.286

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.65 Revision 2699 (Sep 14, 2021)

  • Added feature to the printer drivers to trim whitespace around page content (#14188)
  • Added new Page Formatting tab to the Printer Manager (#14305)
  • Switched X1 Printer Drivers to subscription based licensing
  • Improved performance of online license validation (#13808)
  • Stability improvement for registration and license validation on systems that use Bluetooth Network Connections (#13979)
  • Decreased file size and increased quality of 8-bit grayscale PDF output (#13873)
  • Stability improvement for printing into image formats with the “Enable advanced printing features” option disabled (#14217)
  • Added suffix to output file names when using the “Exact filename” option without the “Overwrite the existing file” option and the output file already exists (#13864)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.1.732
  • Updated JPEG DLL to version 12.82.806
  • Updated TIFF DLL to version 12.83.819
  • Updated eLicense dll version to 6.22.280

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.55 Revision 2665 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • Added options for setting the list of resolutions on the user interface or in the INI file (#13133)
  • Faster printing for image formats (#13862)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#13866, #13967)
  • Stability improvement for PDF encryption where PDF files could not be opened when some specific passwords where used (#13987)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.6.725
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.48 Revision 2647 (Mar 22, 2021)

  • Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808, KB5000809, KB5000822 or KB5000848.

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.46 Revision 2644 (Mar 12, 2021)

  • Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808 or KB5000848. (Fix for printing blank or broken pages.)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Printer Driver MSI installers (#13786)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.45 Revision 2642 (Mar 3, 2021)

  • Added Administrator option to the Printer Manager for configuring the visible Printing Preferences Tabs for all users (#13638)
  • Added Administrator option to the Printer Manager for exporting the current Printer Driver Configuration to INI file (#13638)
  • Fixed saving the Redirect Printing “Use Number of Copies”, “Collated/Uncollated pages”, “Scale to physical printable area or page” and “Print document as bitmap” options to Profile (.bip) and INI files (#13769)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.40 Revision 2628 (Feb 2, 2021)

  • Redesigned email sending window, added text formatting features
  • Minor user interface improvement for the “Exact filename from the registry” and “Exact filename from the INI file” filename generation options
  • Added option to the Redirect Printing feature to use the default printer of the user
  • Stability improvements for saving in the Printer Manager, if the email sending is set to SMTP, but the SMTP settings are not configured
  • Improved PDF output, fixed upside down images or pages in some rare cases
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.4.723
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.35 Revision 2603 (Jan 13, 2021)

  • Added content-based file naming feature (#12628)
  • Added option to remove specified text from the document name (#13518)
  • Added Maintenance/Support contract information to the Printer Manager General Tab (#13479)
  • Changed the file description and Copyright information of the Printer Driver Interactive installer (#13109)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.28 Revision 2558 (Oct 19, 2020)

  • Added filter and search feature for M-Files Multiple Select properties to be more user friendly (#13143)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.27 Revision 2552 (Oct 12, 2020)

  • Added support for paper sizes larger than 3276 mm (#13110, #13123)
  • New M-Files feature to allow displaying error messages in Silent Mode when uploading (#13116)
  • New M-Files feature to allow displaying success messages in Silent Mode when uploading (#13115)
  • New M-Files feature to use the original filename in Silent Mode (#13121)
  • Improvements for M-Files to display the destination Vault name when uploading (#13117)
  • Simplified M-Files Uploading: Users only have to configure the Vault, Document Class and Properties when uploading

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.26 Revision 2541 (Sep 30, 2020)

  • Added raw text datatype support to handle print jobs from legacy software systems (#12840)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.22 Revision 2512 (Sep 16, 2020)

  • Changing the printing preferences for Administrators also change the printer settings for the SYSTEM user (#12936, #13023, #13027)
  • Stability improvement for applying printer settings in the Pritner Manager (#13037)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.20 Revision 2506 (Sep 1, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for drawing transparent images in certain PDF/A documents (#12923)
  • The “Upload to FTP” feature only available in the X1 Printer Drivers (#12922, #12924)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver uninstallation (#12824)
  • Minor user interface improvements for Printer Driver MSI installer (#12820)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.2.719
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.20 Revision 2499 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for appending to PDF documents saved by Adobe Reader (#12360, #12878)
  • Stability improvement for the FrameRgn GDI function in the PDF output (#12860)
  • Stability improvement for saving into Linearized PDF format (#12868)
  • Improved image quality in certain non-letter sized PDF documents (#12870)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.1.718
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.18 Revision 2497 (Jul 24, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for printers disappearing when registering using certain serial keys (#12831)
  • Major performance improvements when opening the Printer Manager on certains systems (#12825)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.16 Revision 2476 (Jun 29, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for special OEM builds – installing a large number of parallel printer drivers on a single system (#12637)
  • Stability improvement including multiple email address in the content based email sending (automatically removing line breaks from email addresses) (#12655)
  • Added command line Proxy server parameters for the PDF Printer driver MSI Uninstaller (#12529)
  • Added HTTP Upload feature to the Printer Manager (#12570)
  • Added environment variable support for HTTP Upload feature parameters (#12213)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.15 Revision 2463 (Jun 10, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for retrying registration in the Printer Manager in case of a connection error (#12380)
  • Stability improvement for removing both 32 bit and 64 bit drivers when driver package information is missing from the registry (#12441)
  • Stability improvement for listing agent printers in Printer Manager (#12445, #12446, #12506)
  • Stability improvement for saving settings for all users in Printer Manager and DCCM (#12550, #12552)
  • Stability improvement for listing printers in the Printer Manager (#12438, #12599)
  • Stability improvement for trying to edit or delete Agent Printers that are currently printing (#12601, #12603)
  • Stability improvement for detecting Black Ice Printers (#12597, #12598)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager (#12507, #12547, #12522, #12602)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Driver interactive installer (#12600)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.12 Revision 2446 (May 5, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for the Merge Window when printing quickly (#12321)
  • Stability improvement for printing from BarTender (#12308)
  • Changed file format in the PDF common profile files to “Compact PDF” (#12314)
  • Stability improvement for the ApplyProfileFile function of the BlackIceDEVMODE.dll in the RTK, on 64 bit systems (#12303, #12305)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.04 Revision 2437 (Apr 21, 2020)

  • PDF Output size optimizations (#12293)
  • Added progress dialog when printing using the Save As dialog (#11903)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver installation when an older version of the printer driver exists on the system (#12225)
  • Stability improvement for setting default output directory for all printers during multi-printer installation (#12280)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.9.714

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.04 Revision 2425 (Apr 2, 2020)

  • Added license type (Special Edition or Regular) detection to installers (#12249)
  • Updated eLicense dll version to 6.15.251

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.02 Revision 2414 (Mar 25, 2020)

  • Added feature to the OEM Release and Demo installers to uninstall the Printer Driver without restarting the system (#12236, #12240)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.02 Revision 2414 (Mar 19, 2020)

  • Set default Color Depth of PDF and ColorPlus Printer Drivers to 24 bit (#12226)
  • Stability improvement for appending Image PDF files (#12060, #12224)
  • Stability improvement for detecting older Printer Driver files during installation (#12231)
  • Stability improvement for handling settings when printing from Microsoft Word after Updating on some systems (#12228)
  • Stability improvement for license checking while having intermittent internet connection issues (#12201)
  • Updated eLicesnse.dll to version 6.14.245
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.01 Revision 2404 (Feb 26, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for output directory access checking in the Printer Drivers (#12146)
  • Stability improvement for saving into JPEG LAB format (#12174)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 16.00 Revision 2396 (Feb 19, 2020)

  • For shared printers, output directory is now set on the Host computer by default, added option to set the directory on the Client (#11726)
  • Stability improvement for IPP printer sharing (#12101)
  • Stability improvement for setting printer redirection for Agent Printers using the MSI installer (#12100)
  • Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.77.752, stability improvement for the OCR feature on systems without AVX support (#12102)
  • Added the “Embed Windows fonts” value to the “PDF Settings” section in the printer driver configuration INI files (#12122)
  • Stability improvement for application starter utility not starting in some cases (#12100)
  • Added missing entries to the PDF Settings section of the default Printer Driver INI files (#12124)
  • The AppStarterEXEName INI file key is now automatically filled by the installers (#12133)
  • Stability improvement for updating ColorPlus Server 32 bit driver package on 64 bit systems (for printer sharing to 32 bit systems) (#12148)
  • Removed the Visual Studio 2005 redistribution files from the Printer Driver installers (#12144)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.99 Revision 2370 (Jan 16, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for redirecting printing from a shared Black Ice Printer to other shared printers (#11148)
  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.76.747, Tesseract release July 7 2019 V4.1.0 (#12076)
  • Updated version of PDF files produced by the Printer Driver to PDF version 1.7 (#11931)
  • Stability improvement for saving settings for all users in the Printer Manager and DCCM (#12074, #12078, #12087)
  • Stability improvement for detecting supported Black Ice Printers in the Printer Manager (#11322)
  • Minor user interface improvements in the Printing Preferences (#11937)
  • Minor user interface improvement for uninstallation using the MSI installers (#11044)
  • Minor user interface improvement for license activation (#12051)
  • Stability improvement for error code 304 in the Printer Driver MSI uninstallation (#12070)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.8.712
  • Updated Image PDF DLLs to version 12.77.750
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.98 Revision 2358 (Dec 9, 2019)

  • Minor user interface improvements for Upload To Database (#11938, #11863)
  • Displaying the Selected ODBC Data Source Driver name in Upload To Database (#11862)
  • Minor user interface improvements for Printer Driver MSI installers when an incompatible installation was detected (#11949)
  • Stability improvement for removing registry entries when shared printers are removed (#11945, #11970, #11971)
  • Minor user interface improvement for shared printers (#11973)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.97 Revision 2344 (Nov 21, 2019)

  • Added “Upload OCR and hOCR” feature to Upload To Database (#11898)
  • Added “Delete printed document after uploading” feature to Upload To Database (#11870)
  • Added “Display error message in silent mode” feature to Upload To Database (#11871)
  • Added INI file option to not write the “Number of Copies” key to the Group file (#11905)
  • Stability improvements for Upload to Database, when trying to upload a document without password (#11913)
  • Stability improvements for Upload to Database logging (#11908, #11910, #11915)
  • Minor user interface improvements for Printer Manager, and Upload To Database (#11907, #11911, #11916, #11918, #11920, #11921, #11914, #11930, #11932)
  • Stability improvements for Upload to Database when updating the Printer Driver (#11924)
  • Improved Upload To Database to support Environment Variables for the log file (#11912)
  • Stability improvements for Printer Manager update when the Printer Manager is opened (#11923)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.96 Revision 2327 (Nov 11, 2019)

  • Added Logging capability for Upload To Database (#11869)
  • Improved Upload To Database to allow users to save ODBC settings without password, and enter the credentials when uploading a document (#11872, #11873)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Upload To Database (#11868, #11848)
  • Stability improvements when the Database settings are not configured in Printing Preferences, but one tries to print and upload a document (#11882)
  • Stability improvements for Upload To Database, when printing the document to memory (#11885)
  • Stability improvement for the “Use first email address from page content” feature
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.95 Revision 2319 (Nov 6, 2019)

  • Added feature to Upload documents to database (#11838)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.91 Revision 2299 (Oct 31, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for the Merge window getting stuck on some systems (#11801)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Driver installers (#11752, #11751, #10039)
  • Added the maintenance expiration date checking to the Printer Driver Server update condition (#11799)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver registration (Error code 57) (#11809)
  • Updated eLicense.dll version to 6.10.235
  • Improvements for online license checking (computer validation for all users) (#11811)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.90 Revision 2299 (Oct 29, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for the Merge window getting stuck on some systems (#11801)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Driver installers (#11752, #11751, #10039)
  • Added the maintenance expiration date checking to the Printer Driver Server update condition (#11799)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver registration (Error code 57) (#11809)
  • Updated eLicense.dll version to 6.10.235
  • Improvements for online license checking (computer validation for all users) (#11811)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.90 Revision 2288 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • Added progress dialog when merging documents using the Merge Documents window (#11642)
  • Stability improvement for content based email sending and mail merge for certain documents (#11732)
  • Improved character positioning in the PDF output for some documents (#11725)
  • Improved page size accuracy of the PDF output (#11618)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.7.711
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.85 Revision 2280 (Sep 6, 2019)

  • Added the Printer Driver Update feature to Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers “pmd” extension is removed automatically from the document name (#11680)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.70 Revision 2266 (Aug 19, 2019)

  • Added the Printer Driver Update feature to Printer Driver interactive installers
  • Added the Printer Driver Update feature to Printer Driver MSI installers (#9544)
  • Stability improvement for using the OCR feature in high resolution on 32 bit systems (#11586)
  • Stability improvement for removing the content based/mail merge tags from the Text Output (#11589)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#11599, #11600)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.70 Revision 2254 (Aug 6, 2019)

  • Added option to the Printer Manager to save settings for all users (#11527)
  • Added “Custom layout” option to the Text Output (#11318)
  • Improved locking of the output TIFF file during printing to prevent applications from opening the file too early (Error 63 issue) (#11530)
  • Stability improvement for using the “Use Embedded Text” barcode feature with “Redirect Printing”, OCR or Text Output (#11555)
  • Added warning message to the printing preferences window to restart printing applications (#11529)
  • Added the OCRTARGETDIR parameter to Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers (#11422)
  • Added the PMTARGETDIR parameter to Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers (#11423)
  • Added CMS-1500 form to Cover Page Filler
  • Stability improvement for using the owerwrite option with the Cover Page Filler (#11560)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.5.709
  • Stability improvement for scaling in some objects in PDF format (#11478)
  • Improvements in rendering underlined text in PDF format (#11524)
  • Improvements drawing of images in PDF format in high resolution (#11525)
  • Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.71.732
  • Stability improvement for the “Closing filter” feature on some systems (#11533)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.65 Revision 2253 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • Added option to the Printer Manager to save settings for all users (#11527)
  • Added “Custom layout” option to the Text Output (#11318)
  • Improved locking of the output TIFF file during printing to prevent applications from opening the file too early (Error 63 issue) (#11530)
  • Stability improvement for using the “Use Embedded Text” barcode feature with “Redirect Printing”, OCR or Text Output (#11555)
  • Added warning message to the printing preferences window to restart printing applications (#11529)
  • Added the OCRTARGETDIR parameter to Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers (#11422)
  • Added the PMTARGETDIR parameter to Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers (#11423)
  • Added CMS-1500 form to Cover Page Filler
  • Stability improvement for using the owerwrite option with the Cover Page Filler (#11560)
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.5.709
  • Stability improvement for scaling in some objects in PDF format (#11478)
  • Improvements in rendering underlined text in PDF format (#11524)
  • Improvements drawing of images in PDF format in high resolution (#11525)
  • Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.71.732
  • Stability improvement for the “Closing filter” feature on some systems (#11533)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.65 Revision 2237 (Jul 9, 2019)

  • Updated the Cover Page Filler to version 1.05.343
  • Added the Barcode feature
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.62 Revision 2231 (Jun 18, 2019)

  • Added “Do not show this window again” option to the Save As dialog. (#11427)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI installers on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (#11428

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.60 Revision 2226 (Jun 11, 2019)

  • Added Cover Page Filler to X1 and OEM Printer Drivers (#10914)
  • Stability improvement for detecting administrator privileges in end user printer driver installers (#11305)
  • Updated the digital signature certificate in installers.
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.56 Revision 2216 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for printing custom (not listed) paper sizes (e.g.: printing from Microsoft Outlook) (#11374)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.55 Revision 2211 (May 29, 2019)

  • Added support for the “Generate output in memory” feature to HTTP uploading. (Uploading document without writing the document to disk) (#11306)
  • Stability improvement for detecting administrator privileges in end user printer driver installers (#11305)
  • Updated the digital signature certificate on software components.
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.04.225
  • Stability improvement for registration on Korean systems. (#11202)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.53 Revision 2140 (Apr 17, 2019)

  • Changed HTTP uploader window titles to use the printer name
  • Added second custom parameter to the HTTP upload feature
  • User interface improvements for the Printer Manager Barcode tab (#10723)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Printing Preferences dialog (#10666, #10667, #10668, #10669, #10678)
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.03.224
  • Stability improvement for registration on Windows XP (#10955)
  • Added transferable license handling for special installers (#10275)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.52 Revision 2092 (Mar 6, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for proxy configuration when installing the driver using the Printer Driver Microsoft MSI installer (#10633)
  • Stability improvement for licensing on 64 bit systems
  • Updated 64bit eLicense.dll to version 6.0.2.221

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.52 Revision 2091 (Mar 1, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for proxy configuration when installing the driver using the Printer Driver Microsoft MSI installer (#10633)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.51 Revision 2086 (Feb 19, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for detecting state of the print spooler service in the Printer Manager (#10476)
  • Stability improvement for using the Merge Window with multi-port printers (#10468, #10498)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver Microsoft MSI installer when the user’s name contains space characters (#10525)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installer when installing font file for OCR (#10526)
  • Stability improvement for the OCR feature in Printer Drivers installed with the Microsoft MSI installer (#10550)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.50 Revision 2079 (Feb 7, 2019)

  • Added “Force paper size” option to the Printer Drivers (#10442)
  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.70.644, Tesseract release October 29 2018 – V4.0.0 (#10335)
  • Added Outlook 2019 support (#10379)
  • Updated Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook to version 9.1.3401
  • Stability improvement for the “Generate output in memory” memory feature, disabled output directory checking (#10440)
  • Stability improvement for missing images or blank pages in the output PDF files when certain raster operations are used during printing (#10432)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI installer for pressing enter key in registration window (#10456)
  • Added Print Image Watermark option to the Save As dialog (#10399)
  • Stability improvement for using the “Overwrite the exisiting document” option with Custom file naming (#10295)
  • Stability improvement for detecting state of the print spooler service in the Printer Manager (#10458)
  • Added “Number of Copies” key to the group file (#10013)
  • Added INI file option to configure the timeout value of the Merge Window (#10470)
  • pdated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.1.704
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.45 Revision 2065 (Jan 15, 2019)

  • Added Compact PDF file format (#9815, #10327)
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 3.0.0.703
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.41 Revision 2054 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • Supporting Windows Server 2019
  • Added the Multi-port feature to Licensed printer driver installers (#10287)
  • Stability improvement for the “Send printed document in email” feature, Outlook window appearing behind the printing application (#10331)
  • Stability improvement for printing documents containing very large number of images in parallel to PDF format (#10320)
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.9.701
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.30 Revision 2026 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • Significant change in how the printer driver is configured through the INI file. The changes will affect every OEM printer driver installation or any installation that uses the MSI installer with the INI file option. The binary “Flags”, “LaunchFlags”, “AnnotationFlags” and “WatermarkFlags” keys are replaced with easy to use key words (#10025)
  • Added option to Profile Manager tab to export current settings as a configuration INI file for customized installations (#9978)
  • Added “Display email sent successfully message” and “Display error message” options to the email settings (#10080)
  • Stability improvement for using environment variables in Header, Footer and Annotation text (#9929, #10027)
  • Stability improvement for End-User PDF printer drivers MSI installer for using PDF/A file format (#10085)
  • The file format drop down lists is made larger to show all the file formats without scrolling (#10074)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#9733)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.25 Revision 2003 (Aug 29, 2018)

  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.25 Revision 2002 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • Added Text Watermark and Text Stamp features for the Watermark/Stamp Tab of the Printer Drivers (#9928)
  • Stability improvement for handling 32 bit PNG images as watermark (#10010)
  • Added support for Unicode output file names for all formats (#9888)
  • Stability improvement for handling new line characters in content based email sending (#9608)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#9880)
  • Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.61.612 (#9888)
  • Added multi-printer support for Printer Driver MSI and InstallShield MSI installers (#9882)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI uninstallation when the network card is disabled (#9816)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver MSI uninstallation when the internet connection is disabled (#9723)
  • Updated Manuals
  • My rules tab hangs with cloud storage support

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.21 Revision 1982 (Jul 17, 2018)

  • Added Stamp feature for the Watermark Tab of the Printer Drivers
  • Disabled output directory access check when the output is disabled or generated in memory (#9827)
  • Stability improvement for InstallShield MSI when installing with serial number (#9840, #9839)
  • Minor user interface update for End-User printer drivers installer (#9823)
  • Minor user interface update for End-User printer driver MSI installers (#9750)
  • Stability improvement for aborting installation of the End-User printer driver MSI installers in case of registration errors (#4950)
  • Stability improvement for text output when printing certain corrupted documents (#9843)
  • Stability improvement for handling extensions in the Save As dialog (#9503)
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.7.697
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.15 Revision 1972 (Jun 27, 2018)

  • Simplified error handling when uninstalling End-User printer drivers
  • Stability improvement for error 305 during uninstallation of the End-User printer drivers using the MSI uninstallers
  • Improvements for serial number checking for MSI installers
  • Stability improvement for MSI uninstallers when aborting the uninstallation
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.6.696
  • Improved bitmap merging for PDF documents
  • Stability improvement for dithering when printing from certain applications
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.10 Revision 1964 (Jun 13, 2018)

  • Stability improvement for handling registration errors during Printer Driver MSI installation
  • Stability improvement for blank pages, when printing from certain applications and redirecting the output to another printer
  • Stability improvement for Text Output when using the “Add font information, position and style” formatting style
  • Added “Line Adjustment” INI file option for text output
  • Added “Embed Identity encoded CID fonts only” option to PDF font options
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.4.692
  • Stability improvement for font embedding when printing certain documents
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.04 Revision 1946 (Apr 27, 2018)

  • Stability improvement for the DLL version check

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.03 Revision 1944 (Apr 24, 2018)

  • Added option to DCCM to hide certain features from User on the printing preferences dialog.
  • Pages Per Sheet (N-Up)
  • Send printed document in email
  • Upload to FTP
  • Upload to SharePoint©
  • Upload to Web
  • Tooltips
  • Added DLL version check for the Printer Drivers
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.02 Revision 1936 (Apr 12, 2018)

  • Added “Pages Per Sheet” (N-Up) feature to the Printer Drivers
  • Added INI file options to hide resolutions from the user interface
  • Fixed Print Preview appearing color when 8 bit grayscale is selected
  • Changed default fax resolution to “Fine fax compatibility”
  • Stability improvement for closing email sender application when the SMTP server name is invalid
  • Updated elicense.dll to version 5.15.207
  • Manual registration window was not shown on some connection errors (43 and 44)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.01 Revision 1923 (Mar 29, 2018)

  • Stability improvement for License checking for Agent Printers in the Printer Manager

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.01 Revision 1915 (Mar 21, 2018)

  • Performance improvements for the Text Output
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.2.690
  • Fixed images appearing black when printing certain documents

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 15.00 Revision 1910 (Mar 8, 2018)

  • Added warning window to Printer Manager when an evaluation version printer is selected
  • Stability improvement for HTTP upload test when “Delete printed document after uploading” is checked
  • Added “Send each page as separate email” option to email sending
  • Changed priority of emails from Low to Normal when silent email sending is enabled
  • Performance improvement on some systems when the “Start Application” feature is used
  • Stability improvement for the “Use first email address from page content” feature
  • “[Read-Only]” text is removed automatically from the document name
  • Disabled the Outlook security popup window when sending emails
  • Added extended logging to Printer driver MSI installers
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.14.206
  • Stability improvements for version checking
  • Fixed error 37 during registration
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.99 Revision 1883 (Jan 22, 2018)

  • Stability improvement for text output even when the printed page contains no text
  • Added option to the HTTP upload feature to display error messages even in silent mode
  • Added custom error to HTTP upload feature, to allow customers to show personalized error messages (Error code 621)
  • Fixed “Merge Documents” window opening behind the printing application
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.1.688
  • Stability improvement for calculating character widths for certain documents
  • Updated elicense.dll to version 5.12.202
  • Made some error messages clearer
  • Licensing improvements
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.98 Revision 1830 (Oct 11, 2017)

  • The printer name, job ID and document name parameters are passed to every message capture event
  • Added the OCR event to Print to Memory samples
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.97 Revision 1807 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Added the ability for End-User printer drivers to be shared between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems
  • Added Bates Number field to Custom File Naming
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.9.0.686
  • Fixed drawing opaque background for some text records
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.96 Revision 1799 (Jul 27, 2017)

  • The “Enable Merge Window=1″ INI file option automatically enables merging by setting the BLF_APPEND flag
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.95 Revision 1791 (Jul 22, 2017)

  • Fixed page number in text output appearing in the end of the previous line instead of a new line
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.9.685
  • Stability improvement for drawing patterns

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.94 Revision 1790 (Jul 21, 2017)

  • Barcode text used for regular expressions now matches the Printer Driver’s text output more closely
  • Removed extension from document names when printing pdf documents
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.8.684
  • Improved rendering of lines with dash-dot-dot pattern

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.92 Revision 1788 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for appending documents using the save As dialog

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.92 Revision 1784 (Jul 12, 2017)

  • Minor user interface improvements for registration
  • Fixed Tooltips not appearing on the user interface when the Printing Preferences dialog is opened from Printer Manager or some other applications
  • Added option to the Printer Manager to enable or disable the Merge Window
  • Stability improvement for the custom file naming
  • Added Date and Time option to custom file naming
  • Stability improvement for printing EMF documents from shared printers
  • Stability improvement for uninstallations restarting the printer spooler service to avoid system restarts
  • Fixed Document Converter Configuration Manager shortcut
  • Added Cancel button for the waiting dialog of Document Converter Configuration Manager
  • Extended logging of Document Converter Configuration Manager
  • Stability improvement for the Delete files after uploading to SharePoint option
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.91 Revision 1768 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Added option to change the height of linear barcodes
  • Minor user interface improvements for registration

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.89 Revision 1741 (May 21, 2017)

  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.7.682
  • Stability improvement for printing from GhostScript
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.88 Revision 1740 (May 4, 2017)

  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.6.681
  • Stability improvement for handling unsupported GDI object types
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.87 Revision 1737 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for using the Printer Driver with Microsoft Word with 204×196 DPI Fine Fax mode
  • Minor user interface improvement in the DCCM
  • Improved startup speed of the DCCM
  • Stability improvement for checking for running instances in the DCCM
  • Minor user interface improvements in the Printer Manager
  • Minor user interface improvements on the Save as dialog
  • Improved startup speed of the Printer Manager
  • Minor user interface improvements on the Printing Preferences dialog Profile Manager tab
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver InstallShield MSI installers for using OCR parameter
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.5.680
  • Fixed upside down text in some documents
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.86 Revision 1721 (Apr 13, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for Printer driver installer for Windows Server 2008 64-bit
  • Minor user interface improvement in the DCCM
  • Minor user interface improvements in the Printer Manager
  • Stability improvement for DCCM for saving Tab preferences in the printer driver configuration ini file
  • Removed empty lines before pages in text output
  • Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.8.4.679
  • Fixed some images appearing black

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.85 revision 1716 (Mar 31, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for InstallShield MSI installation with Group policy

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.85 revision 1709 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Added ColorPlus InstallShield MSI installers
  • Added TiffMonochrome InstallShield MSI installers
  • Added PDF InstallShield MSI installers
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.84 revision 1698 (Mar 21, 2017)

  • Minor improvements on the new Printer Manager user interface
  • Stability improvement for mail merge and content based email sending (disappearing page content)

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.83 revision 1695 (Mar 17, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for End-User PDF Printer Driver installer
  • Stability improvement for running Printer Manager on Windows XP and 2003 systems

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.83 revision 1692 (Mar 15, 2017)

  • Completely redesigned Printer Manager
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.3.677
  • Fix for lines and brushes when printing certain documents from SAP
  • Stability improvement for uninstalling the Printer Driver using the MSI installers
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.82 revision 1675 (Feb 14, 2017)

  • Increased maximum custom parameter length to 8192 characters for the “Start Application” feature
  • Fixed Apply button on the printing preferences dialog not activating when the custom parameter is changed
  • Compatibility improvement for OCR on Windows XP and 2003 systems
  • Updated manuals
  • Updated OCR dlls to version 12.57.563

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.81 revision 1672 (Feb 10, 2017)

  • Minor user interface improvement in the MSI installers
  • Updated OCR dlls to version 12.57.559
  • Improved OCR accuracy
  • Stability improvement for empty print jobs (E.g.: Printing empty page from Notepad)
  • Minor user interface improvements
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.80 revision 1658 (Feb 2, 2017)

  • Upgraded build process for the drivers and installers
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.2.675
  • Stability improvement for printing into Editable XML and Editable HTML output file formats.
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.10.193
  • Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.08.30
  • Updated OCR dlls to version 12.57.554
  • Supporting Windows Server 2016
  • Added demo registration for printer driver MSI installers
  • Removed the Everyone and Just Me radio buttons from the user interface of the MSI installers
  • Stability improvement for resuming paused print jobs
  • Added support for <>, <>, <> and <> environment variables in the output folder for shared printers
  • Stability improvement for using period character in custom file names
  • Stability improvement for licensing in the OEM Demo Printer Drivers
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.76 revision 1619 (Jan 3, 2017)

  • HTTP Upload Utility user interface improvements.
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.08.187
  • Stability improvement for handling connection problems
  • Stability improvement for registration during installation on some Windows 2008 64 bit systems
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.76 (Dec 14, 2016)

  • Added filename generation option: “Use the Document Name with the Output Directory from an INI file”
  • Added option to Custom file naming to read the Output Directory from an INI file
  • The printer driver now generates an empty txt file for text output even if the printed page contains no text
  • Stability improvement for using the Counter field in Custom File Naming
  • in Black Ice Document Converter with multiple parallel printers
  • Stability improvement for Content Based Email Sending and Mail Merge when printing certain documents, including PDF files and Web pages
  • Stability improvement for the Text Output (In some cases the Printer Driver inserted extra space characters into the text output)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Drivers installation if the demo period is expired
  • Disabled the Windows 10 option, “Let Windows manage my default printer” in OEM Printer Drivers
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.08.187
  • Stability improvement for registration on certain systems
  • Stability improvement for uninstalling the printer driver after the registration number was entered instead of the serial number during manual registration
  • Stability improvement for uninstalling the printer driver MSI from Programs and Features if the printer driver MSI was installed using GPO
  • Added Upload to Web feature
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.76 (Dec 14, 2016)

  • Added filename generation option: “Use the Document Name with the Output Directory from an INI file”
  • Added option to Custom file naming to read the Output Directory from an INI file
  • The printer driver now generates an empty txt file for text output even if the printed page contains no text
  • Stability improvement for using the Counter field in Custom File Naming
  • in Black Ice Document Converter with multiple parallel printers
  • Stability improvement for Content Based Email Sending and Mail Merge when printing certain documents, including PDF files and Web pages
  • Stability improvement for the Text Output (In some cases the Printer Driver inserted extra space characters into the text output)
  • Stability improvement for Printer Drivers installation if the demo period is expired
  • Disabled the Windows 10 option, “Let Windows manage my default printer” in OEM Printer Drivers
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.08.187
  • Stability improvement for registration on certain systems
  • Stability improvement for uninstalling the printer driver after the registration number was entered instead of the serial number during manual registration
  • Stability improvement for uninstalling the printer driver MSI from Programs and Features if the printer driver MSI was installed using GPO
  • Added Upload to Web feature
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.75 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Added option X1 Printer Drivers to insert a page in front of the printed document with Barcode
  • Added multi printer install option to ColorPlus X1 printer driver installer
  • Added multi printer install option to MonochromeTIFF X1 printer driver installer
  • Added multi printer install option to PDF X1 printer driver installer
  • Stability improvement for concurrent printer driver detection
  • Minor user interface improvements on the Email Settings dialog
  • Performance improvement for printing some pages with extremely large amount of EMF records
  • Stability improvement for checking barcode size
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.74 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Tooltips stay enabled on the Annotation page of the Printing Preferences dialog even if Annotation is disabled
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.06.179
  • Stability improvement for registration with some VPN virtual network interfaces
  • Updated the License agreement

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.73 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Stability improvement for Bates Number and Annotation rotation
  • Added Unicode text support for QR barcodes
  • Changed Page, Annotation, Barcode and Bates Numbering rotation to clockwise
  • Removed raw file formats from the user interface by default
  • Added Tooltips to the Printing Preferences dialog
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.1.667
  • Improved performance of multi-threaded PDF printing
  • Updated the License agreement
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.72 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Stability Improvement for removing registry entries when uninstalling Printer Drivers
  • Stability Improvement for multi printer naming

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.71 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.0.661
  • Stability improvement for multi-threaded printing into PDF, HTML and XML formats
  • Stability improvement for Printer Driver installer if additional DLL files are locked
  • Bates number passed as application parameter includes the prefix and the padding characters
  • Stability improvement for saving the Computer Name, Timestamp, First Bates Number and Last Bates Number application parameters into profiles
  • Added multi printer install option to PDF printer driver installer
  • Added progress dialog for the installation of the Printer driver and for configuring the printer
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.70 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Added User Name, Computer Name, Timestamp, First Bates Number and Last Bates Number parameters to the “Start Application” feature
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.04.178
  • Stability improvement for registering with certain WiFi adapters (Error 41)
  • Stability improvement for multi-user, parallel license checking (Error codes 47 and 24)
  • Added new feature for DCCM to configure the Event Logging of the Printer Drivers
  • Added new feature for DCCM to apply settings as default for All Users and save to the INI file
  • Minor user interface improvements for DCCM
  • Improved printing Chinese and other unicode documents from Edge on Windows 10 to all formats
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.9.658
  • Stability improvement for printing documents that contain zero length text records
  • Improved printing Chinese and other unicode documents from Edge on Windows 10 to PDF format
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.69 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Stability improvement for the printer driver MSI installer when using the PRINTERNAME parameter with agent printer parameters
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.7.655
  • Stability improvement for printing using RAW data type
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.03.173
  • Fixed licensing related error messages in the uninstallers
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.68 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Stability improvement for using the “Overwrite the existing file” and “Rename the new file” text output options with custom file naming.
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.5.654
  • Fix for certain bitmap fonts
  • Stability improvement for certain applications that do not set the font during printing
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.67 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Stability improvement for printing landscape documents in 204×98 DPI from Notepad
  • Stability improvement for printing documents with varying page orientations
  • Added option to show FTP error messages or message box after successful FTP uploads
  • Added INI file options to hide FTP, SharePoint and Email options from the user interface
  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.4.650
  • Fixed missing characters when printing some documents that contain multiple fonts with the same name
  • Fix for documents that use certain bitmap fonts
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver 14.66 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.4.643
  • Fixed underlined and strike-through text when printing certain documents