Black Ice Software has released the most recent Printer Driver version including critical updates for system Administrators. One of the significant improvements for Administrators is in the speed of the “Save setting (configuration) for all users.” Savings settings for all users is now significantly faster in Domain environments saving time and improving usability, especially in large environments.

Black Ice Software customers have reported encountering “bottlenecks” while printing on Windows servers with 25 -50 users.
This occurs when the server only has one Document Converter available on the system that all users have to print to.

For Example:
If user A prints a 500 page document and user B a 50 page document the print jobs all are sent to a single document converter queue.

User B must wait for User A’s document to complete printing and will remain in the queue until User A’s job is complete. Since printing is sequential on a single printer driver, even though everyone sees an available printer, the print jobs are queued up by the spooler.

The Solution is to set up parallel multi-port printing; each port has its own queue, and the printing speed can be tailed for any environment and workload.

With parallel printing with multi-port printer drivers, users A, B C D …. See the a single printer and can print to the same printer simultaneously. The print jobs are then sent though the printer driver in parallel at the same time (no longer waiting in the printer queue). This unique technology from Black Ice Software resolves the long wait times for users print jobs to complete and appear in the desired folder, all without adding additional complexity for end users.

Single Printer Parallel Driver with Multi-ports

High capacity volume printing is achievable by using the Black Ice Software parallel printer driver technology.

Explore other Multiple-printer parallel printing technologies from Black Ice Software.

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

• Stability improvement for retrying registration in the Printer Manager in case of a connection error (#12380)
• Stability improvement for removing both 32 bit and 64 bit drivers when driver package information is missing from the registry (#12441)
• Stability improvement for listing agent printers in Printer Manager (#12445, #12446, #12506)
• Stability improvement for saving settings for all users in Printer Manager and DCCM (#12550, #12552)
• Stability improvement for listing printers in the Printer Manager (#12438, #12599)
• Stability improvement for trying to edit or delete Agent Printers that are currently printing (#12601, #12603)
• Stability improvement for detecting Black Ice Printers (#12597, #12598)
• Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Manager (#12507, #12547, #12522, #12602)
• Minor user interface improvements for the Printer Driver interactive installer (#12600)
• Updated Manuals

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