Black Ice Software has released printer driver version 15.99 to redirect printing to network shared printers! This feature provides flexibility for network administrators to further simplify print management and printing.

From the print server (Host) one can share out the Black Ice virtual Printer driver to desktop PCs. Also on the Host the Black Ice virtual Printer driver can be configured to redirect client print jobs to Shared network physical printers. On the print server, with a dozen or more printers, each physical printer can be assigned to a Black Ice Agent (Task) printer that can be shared out to users (Clients). The Administrator does not have to manage countless physical printer drivers for different Windows platforms (32 bit 64 bit, win 10/8/7/ Win Servers 2016/2012R2/2008 R2) for compatibility.

The newest release also includes updated Tesseract OCR engine version 4.1 which provides more accurate recognition of OCR data on document and faster performance. In addition the Tesseract OCR engine includes countless bug fixes.

There are additional improvements to the MSI installer error reporting to improve large scale deployment.

The complete list of improvements in the latest Printer Driver includes the following:

• Stability improvement for redirecting printing from a shared Black Ice Printer to other shared printers (#11148)
• Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.76.747, Tesseract release July 7 2019 - V4.1.0 (#12076)
• Updated version of PDF files produced by the Printer Driver to PDF version 1.7 (#11931)
• Stability improvement for saving settings for all users in the Printer Manager and DCCM (#12074, #12078, #12087)
• Stability improvement for detecting supported Black Ice Printers in the Printer Manager (#11322)
• Minor user interface improvements in the Printing Preferences (#11937)
• Minor user interface improvement for uninstallation using the MSI installers (#11044)
• Minor user interface improvement for license activation (#12051)
• Stability improvement for error code 304 in the Printer Driver MSI uninstallation (#12070)
• Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.8.712
• Updated Image PDF DLLs to version 12.77.750
• Updated Manuals

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