PaperCut MF 9.3 (Build 7651)

New features:

• Re-design of the reports list: reports now include sample screenshots that show what they will look like and what kind of information they will contain.
• New reports showing printing information by paper area (useful when using the by paper area charging model): Printer usage – paper area summary and Shared account printing – paper area summary.
• Option to define a list of groups in addition to those in the network user directory via an additional-groups.txt file.
• New language translations: Croatian and Czech.

Enhancements:

• The office and department fields will now be imported when synchronizing PaperCut with an LDAP server.
• New advanced option for bulk user actions: apply operation to users whose balance equals a given amount (to complement the existing less than and greater than options).
• New filter options for ad-hoc reports, including parent account name and parent account PIN/code options on shared account reports, and department and office options on others.
• Allow a job to be canceled from the advanced account selection popup by closing the dialog (rather than pressing the Cancel button).
• New filter option for the User List: show only disabled or enabled users.
• Introduce a filter for the Shared Account List with several filter options, making it easier to find particular shared accounts. Also allow searching for shared accounts by code in the quick find box.
• Add an example for calling the web services API using Python.
• Add an option to the user client config file to specify the default account selected when the standard account selection popup is shown. The previous account selection is now also remembered and used as the default selection the next time a popup is shown.
• Added the ability to copy charge rate settings between printers.
• New server-command and web services API to run a batch user data import. This can be used to schedule an update of user data from a text file, for example after user data has been updated by a third party system.
• New server-command and web services API to delete a printer, or all printers on a specified server. This can be used to batch delete printers after a print server migration.
• A log message is now written to the App. Log when a print job times out after being in a hold/release queue too long.
• Scheduled reports now include the report date range in the email subject and body.
• Smoother animations in the web interfaces.
• Updated Chinese, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish translations.

Fixes:

• Don’t allow access to the Schedule / Email Reports page if a limited administrator does not have the Access reports section right.
• Fixed the user client to correctly display the “Register new user” link when internal user registration is enabled.
• Improved client print popup reliability for sites with inaccurate DNS servers.
• Fixed problem that could occur when using a custom currency sign and a custom number of decimal places.
• Fix problem running the report Group printing – printer job type summary.
• Allow virtual print queues to be selected when specifying administrator rights and when displaying jobs in the web based release station.
• When looking up shared accounts by PIN and there is a sub-account with a globally unique PIN, require the use of the parent PIN to charge to it (e.g. 123-456 instead of just 456.
• Fixed the user web interface defaulting to the interface for mobile devices when using the Opera browser.
• Fixed issue running reports in a Turkish locale. Did you know that an uppercase i is not I in Turkish?
• Fix PDF reports not displaying some Slovene characters.
• Linux installer: make sure which is installed. Yes, some distributions leave it out.
• Improved our spelling ability.

Printer compatibility improvements:

• Added support for the GDI driver on RISO HC3R-HC5500 printers.
• Improved grayscale detection on the Lexmark X945e.
• Fixed some page count and page size issue seen with Adobe products on the Mac with some driver combinations.

Copier / Device Integration:

• Preview access to embedded application for Konica Minolta devices supporting OpenAPI 2.3 or newer.
• Add a quick find box to the devices tab. This makes it easier to find a device by name when there are many in the list.
• Allow per-device card number regular expressions. This can be useful where multiple types of card readers are used and they read card numbers differently.
• New admin rights: Access devices section and Change device settings. This allows limiting an administrator’s access to seeing device settings and running reports from a device’s page, but not changing any settings.
• New report: User print and copy breakdown – summary, shows a breakdown of copying and printing for each user.
• VCA: added the ability for users to self-register an internal user account directly from the device.
• Allow device filters to be copied to other devices using the Copy settings from device to device feature.
• New option to automatically release held jobs jobs when logging into a device.
• All devices now prevent user login when the device has been disabled from the administration interface.
• New Filters & Restrictions page for devices, including group based access controls.
• Sharp OSA: option to restrict color photocopying based on group membership.
• Xerox embedded: general improvements and fixes.