The Group File Header section of the group file contains information about the print job as a whole. The section below will explain each component of the group file from the previous section. Lines in bold are the lines taken directly from the group file.
[Color Printer]
The printer driver type. The printer driver type can be Monochrome, PDF, Color, or Metafile.
Image Format=JPEG
Image format can be
Microsoft Bitmap format - “BMP"
Paint Brush format - "PCX"
Intel format - "DCX"
- "TIFF Group 3 1D No EOL"
- "TIFF Uncompressed"
- "TIFF Group 3 2D"
- "TIFF Group 4"
- "TIFF Packed"
- "TIFF LZW"
- "TIFF JPEG"
- "TIFF Group 3 1D"
- "CALS"
- "RAW TIFF Group 3 1D"
- "RAW TIFF Group 3 1D No EOL"
- "RAW TIFF Group 3 2D"
- "RAW TIFF Group 4"
- "JPEG"
Color Fax Format - "JPEG L*a*b"
"Extended Metafile"
- "PDF"
Append Image Enabled=No
The “Append Image Enabled” field shows that the printer driver generated a single file with multiple images in it, or a separate file for every page. If a single file is generated with multiple images then there would be a single image per page. Also the file name will be repeated for every page in the Page section of the group file. See detail below.
Bits Per Pixel=24
The “Bits Per Pixel” field shows the generated image color depth. The values can be 1 for monochrome, 8 and 24 for color images.
Print status=Printing finished successfully
The printed job status. In case of failed printing an error message will appear in the status field.
The message “Printing started” is shown when printing begins
The message "Printing finished successfully" shown on successful printing.
The message "Internal error 99" followed by two numbers shown when an internal error occurs. Please contact technical support with error number for details.
The message "Out of memory" shown when the driver fail to allocate memory. Resolution is to add more physical memory and make sure that there is enough disk space for virtual memory.
The message "BUTIFF.DLL cannot be loaded" shown if driver failed to load the TIFF32 DLL.
The message "JPEG32.DLL cannot be loaded" shown if driver failed to load the JPEG32 DLL.
Number of Copies=2
The Black Ice Printer Drivers do not generate multiple documents based on the Number of Copies value specified during printing, however the Number of Copies value is written into the group file. The Number of Copies value is only written into the group file if the value is larger than 1. Please note, some applications may send multiple separate print jobs, or send duplicated pages to the driver instead of setting the Number of Copies value. In these cases, the Number of Copies value is not set in the group file.
Total number of pages=3
The total number of pages printed in the print job.