PaperCut Version 10.1 released

 Just a month after the release of PaperCut version 10 we now have a new version to play with.

Version 10.1 brings us some great new features including advanced scriptting, custom printer fields, an update to the mac client and new reports.

The biggest news here is the Advanced scripting feature. Your script can do a whole host of things including checking details of the job and influencing what happens to it. Some examples:

• 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.

Plus those of you using a Copicode IP can now allow users to associate a new card with their PaperCut account or replace their existing card (I know some of you have been waiting for that)

You can find the newest download links on our product demo pages.

25 February 2010 – PaperCut MF 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.

New report for 3rd party payment hardware: reconciliation for all devices in one report.

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.

Copier / Device Integration:  

CopiCode-IP:

• Update to firmware version 1.2.9 from 1.2.8, which includes support for associating cards at the terminal. When enabled this feature allows users to associate a new card with their PaperCut account or replace their existing card.
• Fixed a problem where the copy costs were not displayed with the correct number of decimal places.

Ricoh ESA: new embedded application versions for both SDKv2 an SDKv4 devices. Changes include:

• Fixed a problem that could cause a white screen to appear, requiring the embedded application to be restarted.
• Modified the account search by code to be more consistent with other account code searches (e.g. in the user client and on other devices).
• Fix a problem that could occur when the device is configured as a release station only (i.e. no copy tracking enabled).
• SDKv4 devices:
  • Fixed problems with card readers and copying that can occur after device awakes from sleep/offline state.
  • Improved support for Mifare cards encoded with hexadecimal card numbers.
• SDKv2 devices: improved copy count detection.

New 3rd Party Hardware Payments API allowing hardware integrators to support Pay and Release cash payments at release stations.