Century - Windows printer driver

Driver version 4.6.65.3360

Updates:

• Printer error detailes were missing while printing. The status reporting issue was limited to NicePrintQueue, Enterprise Print Manager(EPM) and NiceLabel.

  
  

Driver version 4.6.64.3299

Updates:

• Speed setting above 10"/s didn't work properly. This is fixed now.

Driver version 4.6.64.3290

What's new:

• Advanced TCP/IP port monitor now supports connections to names as well as IP addresses.

Driver version 4.6.63.3224

Updates:

• Rotation option on userinterface and QR and MicroQR barcode font rotation now work correctly

Driver version 4.6.62.3190

Updates:

• Spooler crash when changing printer port while printing was fixed.

Driver version 4.6.62.3187

Updates:

• Cutting after specific number of labels now works from all software.

Driver version 4.6.62.3156

Updates:

• Custom settings for unprintable now work correctly

Driver version 4.6.60.3059

What's new:

• Cut/Strip position option has been enabled no matter on selection of issue mode. It could be selected with batch or strip mode for issue on driver's advanced setup dialog.
  The GUI has been updated in a way that batch mode is selected always when the cutter is used. Strip mode cannot work together with cutter.

Driver version 4.6.59.3008

What's new:

• New batch action is implemented. User have now an option for action after last label in a batch, and new option (just cutter option has been available for now) is "Pause printer". This option is available just from labeling software and could be used now on TEC or Toshiba printers.

Driver version 4.6.59.3002

Updates:

• Printer ports are now properly shown in Options dialog.

Driver version 4.6.59

What's new:

• Changed font for Chinese Windows to SimHei.

Driver version 4.6.55.2911

What's new:

• Positining on Toshiba/TEC 600 DPI printer has been updated.

Driver version 4.6.51.2800

What's new:

• Czech, Lithuanian and Ukrainian languages are now supported also in all NiceDrivers.
  
  

Driver version 4.6.50.2773

Updates:

• When printing from standard Windows application (like Microsoft Word) and using page rotation (Landscape and/or rotate 180), positions of graphic were shifted relative to internal elements.
  Shift size depends on page dimensions, shift direction depends on rotation.
  

Driver version 4.6.49.2747

What's new:

• PrnInst utility was updated so that long INF file structure is supported.

Driver version 4.6.49.2611

Updates:

• When trying to preinstall drivers on Windows 7, user got an "Environment incorrect" error message. This is corrected now.

Driver version 4.6.48

What's new:

• PDF417 code was not able to rotate. This is supported now.
  Also positioning of rotated 2D codes is corrected. (PDF417, Datamatrix)

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 4.6.41.2364

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 4.6.37.2258

Updates:

• Uninstall of printer with Printer Install Wizard did not work on Windows 2003 (x64) system

Driver version 4.6.34

What's new:

• Setting for RFID position adjustment has been added to the advanced settings dialog on TOSHIBA/TEC printers.

Driver version 4.6.31.2187

Updates:

• When encoding RFID data to TEC printer and Error was displayed on the printer.

Driver version 4.6.24

Updates:

• User can now select any "Aspect Ratio" in Labeling software on Datamatrix barcode for TEC or TOSHIBA printers. Printer will print this barcode as internal element. Depend on barcode aspect ratio, Datamatrix is printed as square or rectangle.

Driver version 4.6.23

Updates:

• 600 dpi TEC printers have resolution basically 609 dpi.

Driver version 4.6.22

What's new:

• Build number is now part of version information in About dialog

Updates:

• 2D barcodes (Datamatrix, PDS417,..) ware missing after printing the first page. This is corercted now.

Driver version 4.6.14

Updates:

• 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 4.6.01

Updates:

• Added Rotation to parsed text in command fonts
• When continuos paper is used command Q0001,0 is not correct. It should be Q{page_height},0.

Driver version 4.6.00

Updates:

• Printing process was stopped during heavy duty printing.
• RFID Data write is corrected for "non Gen 2" tags. Address parameter is described with 3 digits and Tag type is corrected.

Driver version 4.5.42

What's new:

• Driver print speed optimization

Driver version 4.5.41

What's new:

• Added Rfid Permanent Locking for Tec Printers
• PnP ID's have been added for Century printer models below:
  Eagle 4,
  Falcon 4 Plus (203 dpi),
  Falcon 4 Plus (300 dpi),
  Falcon 6 Plus (203 dpi),
  Falcon 6 Plus (300 dpi),
  Falcon 4D Plus (203 dpi),
  Falcon 4D Plus (300 dpi),
  Falcon DT2,
  Falcon DT4,
  Hawk 4D,
  Hawk 4 (203 dpi),
  Hawk 4S (203 dpi)
  

Driver version 4.5.39

What's new:

• Following printers added:
  Hawk 4D, Hawk 4 (203 dpi), Hawk 4 (300 dpi), Hawk 4S (203 dpi) and Hawk 4S (300 dpi).

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 4.5.35

What's new:

• New Century printer model are added into Century distribution:
  Century Falcon 4 Plus 203dpi
  Century Falcon 4 Plus 300dpi
  Century Falcon 6 Plus 203dpi
  Century Falcon 6 Plus 300dpi
  Century Falcon 4D Plus 203dpi
  Century Falcon 4D Plus 300dpi
  Century Falcon DT2
  Century Falcon DT4
  Century Falcon 8
  

Driver version 4.5.34

Updates:

• Postnet barcode fonts can no longer have their width changed.

Driver version 4.5.33

Updates:

• Rfid setup and tag position settings removed from the stream send to the printer.

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 4.5.09

Updates:

• 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 4.5.03

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:

•  - 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)

Driver version 4.4.73

What's new:

Updates:

• Uninstall of driver package failed when running a 64bti system.

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'.

Driver version 4.4.67

Updates:

• Variable elements no longer erase random part of labels.

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:

• Obsolete commands are sent to the printer when encoding Rfid tag
• Leading zerros are missing in one parameter in Rfid Lock command

Driver version 4.4.60

What's new:

• Changed file info for Printer Install Wizard

Updates:

• Default value for Always use default settings is not correct when instaling it the driver with a configuration file attached.

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

Updates:

• EndDocument escape was sent even when there was no StartDocument.
• 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 4.3.72

Updates:

• Sometimes a print stream is not send to the printer, and it stays stuck in the spooler
• Error occured when encoding to Gen2 Rfid tags

Driver version 4.3.70

What's new:

• Currently Godex driver prints graphics elements with store -> recall way. But with this type for every graphic printer "beeps" which is very annoying. Now it is implement new type of graphic printing called ?Direct print? which works without ?beeping?. This type of graphic printing is selected by default.
  
  

Updates:

• Error occurred when variable internal text element was placed on the label and in the database some records were empty. In this case text from previous label was repeated.
  This error was present only on some printers.
  

Driver version 4.3.63

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 4.3.56

Updates:

• 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:

• Spooler crashed during the installation, if there were any printers allready installed on the system.

Driver version 4.3.54

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.
• Increased timeouts for better printer status response times
• Slow printing occurred when a Not Accessible printer was found on a network. Printer status was also not received immediately.

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 4.3.51

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 4.3.07

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.

Driver version 4.3.03

Updates:

• 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

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