PaperCut 9.0 Release Candidate (Build 6998)

New features:

• Load balancing: Spread print load over fleets of group printers.
• Find-Me Printing: Intelligent routing of print jobs to release stations at large sites.
• Printer toner level reporting and notification for supported network printers.
• Added 6 new reports:
  • User printing – printer summary
  • Printer usage – user job type summary
  • Physical printer usage – summary
  • Group environmental impact – summary
  • Department environmental impact – summary
  • Office environmental impact – summary
• Added various new filter and sort options to the existing reports.
• Revamped networking code (implemented using latest Asynchronous IO technology) offering greatly improved scalability. PaperCut can now support tens-of-thousands of simultaneous user clients even when running on standard 32-bit server hardware.
• Across-the-board performance improvements.
• The Internet bandwidth control module is now included as standard rather than licensed separately.

Enhancements:

• Improved presentation on LCD screens with use of anti-aliased fonts in user client and release station.
• Show the report filtering parameters in the Excel/CSV report headers.
• Added more reports to the list that support scheduling via email.
• Added an option to charge all printing to a print queue to a single shared account (overriding any user settings).
• Include total/summary information in the “Printer usage – logs”, “Printer usage – job type summary” and “Printer usage – job type summary” reports.
• Improved client popup reliability on workstations with names longer than 15 characters.
• Do not display the “Cards” tab when TopUp/Prepaid cards are not enabled.
• Changed default configuration so that printing is automatically refunded if the jobs are cancelled within 24 hours (Previously was 60 minutes).
• Novell: Automatically register printers with the server at install time.
• Linux: Improved reliability of user client start script.
• Added support for additional online banking payment service in the payment gateway module.
• Improved error messages displayed to users under various circumstances (e.g. when the PaperCut external database is unavailable).
• Improved error message when access is denied to the web service interfaces.
• Various improvements to error logging to help assist problem diagnosis.
• Various documentation improvements.
• Updated translations for Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Spanish, Italian and Czech.

Fixes:

• Fixed a problem with Excel/CSV where some numeric values were not exported properly in some European regions.
• Fixed some minor problems with the web widgets.
• Allowed the LDAP BaseDN to be blank. This allows searching of servers that have multiple root nodes (seen on some Novell eDirectory sites).

Printer compatibility improvements:

• Improved page count detection for Brother HL 4040.