PaperCut MF 9.5 (Build 8168)

New features:

• Ricoh ESA: improved version for newer models (models supported ESA SDK v4) with many additional features such as “zero stop” (stop jobs as soon as user runs out of balance), support for card readers and improved copy count detection.
• New manager mode pop-up designed to allow authorized users to perform printing as other users and allocate to accounts. It also allows various cost adjustments to be applied to jobs. A common use for the manager mode popup would be in school/college print rooms where staff print on behalf of other users. See the Client Tool section of the PaperCut NG product tour for a screenshot.
• Allow self-registration of internal users using swipe cards in the pay station / release station.
• Add support for CyberSource payment services in the payment gateway module.
• New reports showing a breakdown of copying vs printing: Shared account print/copy breakdown – summary, Group print/copy breakdown – summary
• Added a new report Shared account security access that lists the shared accounts that each user may access.
• New options for release stations to better support small, high resolution screens and touch screens: option to display links as buttons, option to scale the size of all elements.
• Added more ad-hoc report filters to several reports.
• Added the ability to remove all user balance information (balance history graph, transaction history) from the user web pages. This may be useful in corporate environments where the focus is on account/department tracking.
• Added new filters to the Jobs Pending Release page in the user web interface: document name, workstation name.
• New filter for print log tables: minimum and/or maximum pages.

Enhancements:

• Improved the charge rates functionality to allow additional cost adjustment types, including per job and per page adjustments. The charge rates feature has been renamed to cost adjustments. Cost adjustments may now be defined at both the global and printer level. This simplifies the configuration when all/most printers have exactly the same adjustments.
• More flexible quota custom scheduling options, including wildcards for the year and month.
• Added support for importing user card numbers from the Active Directory description field.
• The frequency of administrative email error alerts is now configurable via the Options tab.
• Display the username of the logged in user in the release station.
• Off-the-glass copying now updates the page and job counters displayed on a user’s details page.
• Add support for sending WinPopup/msg notifications from Windows Server 2008.
• The ad-hoc report department and office filters now accept entering multiple values (a comma separated list), allowing reports to show data from several chosen departments or offices.
• Added a new filter to the user list page to show users who do not belong to any groups.
• New client tool option to disable notification area balloon tips (and use dialog boxes instead).
• The user web interface will now indicate when a user’s printing is disabled.
• The icon next to users in the user list now indicates when a user’s account has been disabled.
• When an invalid line is detected in a shared account import file the warning message now lists the associated line number.
• Added an option to expand the group selection list on shared account security settings so that very long group names can be displayed.
• Improved documentation regarding setting up PaperCut in a clustered server environment.
• Log the IP address of failed login attempts in the application log.

Fixes:

• Improved reliability of pop-ups and notification delivery on networks using IPv6 and IPv4 concurrently.
• Improved stability on Novell OES Linux.
• Improved reliability of Find Me Printing and job redirection on Novell OES Linux.
• Improved reliability of Find Me Printing on servers using virus scanners that can interfere with the print job redirection.
• Fixed issue in the web based release station where status messages would not disappear.
• Fixed problem displaying web widgets and Vista gadgets in regions that use a comma as the decimal separator.
• Improved user client authentication pop-up reliability for Mac workstations using an HTTPS proxy.
• Fixed a rare case where a driver bug may have incorrectly caused a job to be flagged as partially printed – not refunded.
• Improved reliability of restoring database backups that contain invalid unicode characters.
• Fixed an issue that could cause installation on Linux systems to take a long time.
• Fixed problem running the Shared Account List CSV report with a large number of accounts.
• Fixed a potential issue that could occur when PaperCut connects to SQL Server before SQL Server has fully initialized.
• Fixed issue where the “last updated” date shown in the database statistics area on the About page may not be correct.
• Fixed possible issue on Linux in the setup wizard when detecting what kinds of user directories are available.
• Fixed various documentation and interface wording and typos.

Printer compatibility improvements:

• Page count improvement for recent PCL driver versions for the Canon iR2220/iR3320 PCL5e.
• Improved support for analyzing unicode documents printed on the Ricoh MP 6000.
• Improved page-level color detection on Linux.
• Improve color detection for Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN and other PCL5 printers.
• Fixed duplex detection issue seen on Lexmark X945e printers.
• Fixed duplex detection issue when using external duplexer on the Utax 3316 and the Kyocera C5025N.
• Fixed duplex detection issue seen occasionally on Ricoh Aficio MP C4000 MFDs and related devices when using PCL drivers.
• Improved page size detection from CAD jobs using Nemetschek print drivers.

Copier / Device Integration:

• Ricoh ESA:
  • Improved version for newer models (models supported ESA SDK v4) (as described above).
  • Added the ability to customize header logos and colors.
  • Improved user interface to allow users to switch between copy and print release or select another account without re-logging in.
• Added a workaround to a bug with the Boscop VCA that could cause very large credit amounts to be added to user accounts.
• Boscop VCC devices: changed default vend timing to be compatible with the older version 1 devices.
• Improved recoverability of Boscop VCC/VCA and Xerox devices when the PaperCut external database goes down.
• Sharp OSA:
  • Improved logging of jobs re-printed from the device’s hard drive store.
  • Fixed a problem that could stop users from starting a 2nd copy job after a long copy job completed.
  • Fix a problem that could stop a user copying if a previous user authenticated but did not press the “OK” button to enable the copier.
  • Better support for multiple job queuing under one login session.
  • Improvement to the appearance of the start screen logo on AR series devices.
• Konica Minolta OpenAPI:
  • Added support for duplex detection.
  • Added tracking for advanced features such as direct copy/printing from workstations and via the internet.
• CopiCode-IP: Change the default authentication option to card and identity number, and to not require a PIN.