The Black Ice Printer Drivers Installer can be used to generate a custom INI file for both custom OEM installers or for custom MSI installers instead of manually editing the INI file. The Printer Drivers Installer has a built-in feature to generate custom INI files through the usual installation process of the Black Ice Printer Drivers.
To create a custom INI file one needs a system to perform a manual installation of the printer driver to configure the printer with the desired features and functions.
Start a standard manual installation process of the printer driver. During the installation process the Configuration Manager window will be displayed. Select the Custom Config option and click the Next button.
The second Configuration Manager Window will be displayed, click on the Custom Printer Driver Configuration (default for every user) button on the middle of the screen.
The Printer Driver Printing Preferences window appears with the available printer driver feature Tabs. One can manually configure desired options for every Tab. Once every Tab is configured, click on the OK button to close the Printing Preferences and the installation continues.
Click on the Next button, and follow the instructions to complete the Printer Driver installation.
Once the Installation is finished successfully, the Installer generates the customized INI file in the following directories:
On 32-bit operating systems
c:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\W32X86\
c:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\W32X86\3\
On 64-bit operating systems
c:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\
c:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\3\
For specific name for a Printer Driver INI filenames please see:
For Windows Desktop systems.
BuCiniNT.ini - for the Color driver
BuAiniNT.ini - for the ColorPlus driver
BuEIniNT.ini - for the EMF (metafile) driver
BuMIniNT.ini - for the TIFF (monochrome) driver
BuPIniNT.ini - for the PDF driver
For Windows Server systems.
BuCIniTS.ini - for the Color Terminal Server driver
BuAIniTS.ini - for the ColorPlus Terminal Server driver
BuEIniTS.ini - for the EMF Terminal Server driver
BuMIniTS.ini - for the TIFF Terminal Server driver
BuPIniTS.ini - for the PDF Terminal Server driver
NOTE: In case of Demo OEM Printer Drivers the INI file names are different. The NT is replaced with ND, and the TS is replaced with TD. For example in case of ColorPlus OEM Demo: BuAiniND.ini for Desktop, and BuAiniTD.ini for Server.
The generated INI files can be copied and used for custom MSI Installations for large scale deployments, or to export/import custom configurations between systems.
There are some infrequently used features of the printer driver that cannot be configured through the printer driver’s Printing Preferences user interface. These features still require manual editing of the INI file. For specific information about the Printer Driver INI please see The Printer Driver INI Files section in the Printer Driver Resource Toolkit manual.