PaperCut MF 10.3 (Build 10448)

New features:

• Advanced print scripting:
  • New recipe for copyright sampling. This script demonstrates the use of advanced techniques such as sampling, using functions and multi-step user interaction.
  • New recipe to confirm printing of color emails.
  • New recipe for redirecting a job with confirmation.
  • New advanced recipe to require that users enter an approval code before printing (e.g. printing must be approved by a teacher).
  • New snippets for checking printer group and user group membership.
  • Added an option to speed up the process of displaying a sequence of multiple prompts to a user.
• Added support for card+PIN authentication at release stations (in addition to the existing card only authentication).
• New payment gateway module for Blackboard, including pay-and-release support (pay for printing at a release station).
• New hold/release paper saving reports, showing jobs that were held in a hold/release queue and never printed (i.e. either cancelled by the user or timed out).
• New server-commands and web services APIs for:
  • Adding and setting printer groups.
  • Adding and setting printer custom fields.

Enhancements:

• Visual improvements to the release station, particularly on Windows systems using the “classic” look/theme.
• Removed the use of many “modal” dialog boxes in the release station. This makes the interface more touchscreen friendly.
• Re-vamp the print job status column to more clearly indicate various printing, charging and refund states.
• Printers may now be filtered by their last usage date.
• Scheduled reports may now be edited, rather than requiring they be re-created.
• Release station manager access may now be delegated as an admin right (via Options → Admin Rights).
• Ad-hoc shared account reports now include group filters, allowing data to be limited to users from a given group.
• Include embedded copier copier usage in the Physical printer usage reports.
• Display the device make/model, serial number and toner level information if available for embedded devices.
• Web Print: Improved reliability of handling of Microsoft XPS documents on slow systems.
• Environmental impact reports now display the total sheets and total pages statistics.
• Added a check to prevent more than one copy of the release station software from running on the same system at the same time.
• Improved speed of releasing jobs from the hold/release queue when they’ve been awaiting release for over 60 minutes.
• The “CutePDF Writer” virtual printer is now ignored by default on Windows print servers.
• Improved error messages when runtime errors occur in advanced print scripts.
• Included documentation to support our enterprise customers using Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2 Failover Clustering Management.
• When a new license is installed, apply device licenses immediately without requiring a restart of the application server.
• Improved support for Mac 10.6 when using the client software on systems also configured to use a SOCKS proxy.

Security:

• To conform with PCI security compliance best practice, HTTP directory listings have been turned off (URLs hosting static content like images, CSS, scripts, etc.).

Fixes:

• Fixed client startup issue seen on some Mac 10.6 systems using a login hooks.
• Improved reliability of Find Me Printing and load balancing on servers using virus scanners that can interfere with print job redirection.
• Fixed problem with the top-up card wizard that could cause British Pound signs to display incorrectly in the generated cards. This fix requires re-installing the card wizard.
• Fixed problem with IE8 that stopped the virtual queue settings from being displayed when enabling a printer as a virtual queue.
• Fixed issue on some browsers where report pages could only run one report before needing to be refreshed.
• Reports run from data tables (job log, user list etc.) will now correctly show any applied filters in the report header.
• The reports “Group printing – shared account summary” and “Shared account configuration” now include the shared account codes, if configured.
• Fixed potential issue that could on Mac print servers where canceling a job could result in the queue being paused.
• Fixed problem editing print print log records that could incorrectly change the job’s grayscale flag even though color options weren’t changed.
• Fixed issue where users logging in with uppercase usernames could not request refunds.

Printer compatibility improvements:

• Added support for some Brother MFC range devices including the Brother MFC-6490CW.
• Added support for new RISO drivers such as the RISO ComColor 9050.
• Added support for new model Zebra label printers such as ZDesigner TLP 2844.
• Fixed N-up detection issue as seen on Lexmark T654 devices using PostScript drivers.
• Improved PCL6 page-level color detection for recent Ricoh and Konica Minolta drivers. E.g. Ricoh Aficio MP C5000 and Konica Minolta C652.
• Improved grayscale detection on Mac OS X drivers with Xerox Phaser 7500DX and related drivers.
• Improved high copy count detecting on OCE plotters.
• Improved N-up detection on Toshiba devices using PostScript drivers.

Copier / Device Integration:

• Added a new embedded/onboard copy, fax and scan tracking solution for HP devices via the Chai SOE DSE platform. For more information and supported devices see the HP MFD Integration tour page.
• Added a new embedded/onboard copy, fax and scan tracking solution for Toshiba devices. For more information and supported devices see the Toshiba MFD Integration tour page.
• Boscop Virtual Cash Controller: Improved behaviour when a restricted user logs on and no copier pricing has been configured. In this situation the VCC immediately terminates the session, but now a warning message is displayed explaining the configuration problem.
• CopiCode-IP: Upgrade to firmware version 1.2.9a from 1.2.9. This resolves an issue with the new MyID cards and varying card lengths.
• Ricoh Onboard/Embedded (ESA):
  • Users can now associate cards with their login at the device (“card self-association”).
  • Improved reliability when the application server becomes unavailable or during network outages. In some circumstances, the application could hang/lock and stop working (sometimes resulting in an “SC997 error”).
  • Improved reliability of copier page count detection on SDK v2 devices.
• Sharp Onboard/Embedded (OSA):
  • Users can now associate cards with their login at the device (“card self-association”).
  • Limit device web page access to the device internal administrator username and password.
  • Added option to bypass the account confirmation screen when logging in.