PaperCut 10.1 (Build 9802)

New features:

• Advanced Scripting: The most powerful feature added to PaperCut yet! Advanced Scripting empowers administrators by allowing them to write scripts that execute when new jobs arrive. This opens up a whole host of possibilities such as:
  • Displaying a pop-up message if a user forgets to select duplex on large jobs.
  • Showing statistics on the environmental impact on large jobs via a fancy popup dialog.
  • Prompting the user to confirm large jobs before printing.
  • Automatically routing large jobs to more efficient high volume printers
  • … and much much more!
• Custom printer fields: To assist with printer management, administrators can define extra metadata fields for storing ad-hoc data. These fields may represent data such as asset numbers, last date of print service, owner, details of lease arrangements, etc. Fields may also be used in reports.
• The Mac client software has been enhanced to leverage the system-wide login hook for authentication. This means that in some situations the PaperCut client popup authentication dialog can be eliminated, avoiding the need for users to log in twice – once for the system and then again for PaperCut.

Enhancements:

• CSV reports with date and time representations will now be automatically recognized by popular spreadsheet applications.
• Support for monitoring locally attached printers on Novell networks. Remote queues mapped via IPP are now ignored so only locally attached printers are detected.
• The “Microsoft Office Document Image Writer” virtual printer is ignored by default on secondary server installs.
• Improved documentation on how to set up PaperCut in a Novell cluster.
• Improved the PDF version of the user manual – smaller font, less paper! (But you weren’t going to print it, were you?)
• Improved error message when server-command is attempted to be run with non-elevated privileges under UAC on Windows 2008/Vista.

Fixes:

• Fixed issue where the user client may in some situations consume excessive CPU if the –minimized option was turned on.
• Fixed a problem in Web Print where PDF files produced by OpenOffice may timeout with unknown error.
• Eliminated the “stale session” error that may have occurred when administrators attempted to log in using Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Printer compatibility improvements:

• Improved support for custom PostScript output produced by PeopleSoft.
• Improved stability when analyzing some Postscript spool files.