PaperCut NG - 10.0

New features:

• Printers may now be assigned to groups. This allows administrators to group, report and manage printers by any attribute. Groups are administrator-defined and can include classes such as type, make, physical location and work area amongst others.
• The user client software has moved out of the 1990's and into 2010 with a graphic and GUI effects makeover. It now sits nicely with the "glassy" look found in modern operating systems.
• Our team of developers in Japan have been busy and this release includes a full Japanese translation - both the end-user and administrator interfaces. Japanese is the 20th non-English language now supported in PaperCut. Welcome to our growing user base in Japan!
• On Windows systems common/popular virtual printers such as PDF writers and virtual faxes are now ignored from monitoring by default. This change will assist organizations supporting locally attached printers by minimizing custom configuration required to ignore virtual printers found on desktop systems.

Enhancements:

• Improved admin login speed when multiple admins login simultaneously.
• Various documentation improvements including areas such as Web Print, clustering, SSL key generation and Find Me Printing.
• Improvements to Find Me Printing and load balancing to handle a mix of color and grayscale physical printers. Now if the destination physical printer is configured as a "Grayscale Printer" all jobs released to this printer will be logged and charged as grayscale.
• Find Me Printing with web based release: when there is only one target queue when releasing a job, the queue is no longer automatically selected. This is important in some cases to provide the user information about where their job is going.
• Users' balance is no longer displayed in the Jobs Pending Release section of the user web interface if users are not allowed to view their balance.
• Improved error reporting when using server-command or the XML web services APIs.
• Fixed problem with Web Print when the maximum upload size was set to exactly 2048MB.
• Improved support for Windows 64-bit systems via the updated 64-bit add-on pack.
• Updated 3rd party libraries and components providing improved performance and reliability.
• Streamlined the initial setup wizard by removing the module selection step. This step was redundant for the majority of organizations.
• Various improvements to debug logging to assist diagnosing problems.

Fixes:

• Fixed problem in Web Print that could allow two instances of the Web Print process to run simultaneously. This would result in subtle problems and confusing behavior.
• Mac/Linux: Fixed issue where administrator printer error notifications may not have worked with CUPS print queues.
• Improved robustness of submitting Web Print jobs when the system clocks of the primary server and sandbox server are significantly skewed or in different timezones.
• Fixed error when creating and enabling new shared accounts based on a disabled template account.
• Improved integration with Mac print queues to avoid sending multiple print notifications to the application server.
• Linux: Improved reliability of print job canceling/refunding when jobs fail to print using CUPS printer classes on old versions of CUPS.
• Mac: Addressed permissions issue on the server log directory that may result in new logs not being created in selected situations.

Printer compatibility improvements:

• Improved page counting on OKI CXXXX series printers using PCL5 drivers when printing in duplex.
• Improved plot size detection from output from Autocad in PCL6 format.
• Improved support for RISO HC3R-HC5500 with GDI drivers.
• Improved page size detection support for PDF documents printed via a Mac workstation and server.
• Improved support for custom driver options provided by the Xerox Phaser 7400DX Postscript driver.
• Improved tracking of ArchiCAD 12 plots.