Install and Configure Printer Driver easily
Black Ice ColorPlus Printer Driver installation takes only a few minutes, and once it's installed, the ColorPlus printer driver can be used just like any regular printer. To use the ColorPlus printer driver, just print to the ColorPlus printer driver from any Windows application.
Easily configurable silent MSI installers are available from InstallShield or Microsoft, for large-scale mass deployment.
Convert To PDF and TIFF From Any Windows Application
One can print to the Black Ice ColorPlus PDF Printer Driver from any Windows application capable of
printing, for example, Adobe Reader, MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook, Image
Viewers, Internet Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome and more!
The ColorPlus Printer Driver converts documents to PDF, PDF/A, TIFF, JPEG, HTML, PNG, and many more
formats from any Windows application capable of printing.
Optical Character Recognition for Scanned documents
Black Ice ColorPlus PDF Printer Driver is capable of converting scanned documents, such as Fax, TIFF,
DICOM, JPEG into an editable text file by using Optical Character Recognition.
It is widely used as a form of digital document processing for documents stored in Image file format
such as Fax, TIFF, DICOM, JPEG, PDF, to store, archive any kind of document such as invoices,
medical records, sales receipts, mail, or scanned documents.
Supported Operating Systems
Client
Windows 11 64 bit
Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 8.1 32/64 bit
Windows 7 32/64 bit
Server
Windows Server 2025
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2012
Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop
VMware Horizon + ThinApp
VMware VCenter
Microsoft RemoteApp
Microsoft Hyper-V, Hyper-V VDI
The Printer Driver supports ARM processor based devices.
MSI Installer for large scale deployment
The MSI installer for Printer Drivers designed for large scale deployment in Active Directory environments. With the Printer Driver MSI installer System Administrators can create custom configurations for every User on the system and register or activate the printer driver. The MSI installer will greatly simplify mess deployment and eliminates the need for customers to build custom installations.
New InstallShield MSI installers! No .NET framework installation required!
The Black Ice Printer Drivers are also available in a form of InstallShield MSI installers. The new InstallShield MSI installer does not require .NET framework to be installed on the computers, bypassing the security vulnerabilities of the .NET framework. The new InstallShield MSI installer comes with the same functionality and features as the regular Microsoft MSI installer.
For InstallShield MSI installer availability, please contact sales@blackice.com.
The MSI installer is compatible with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft SMS/SCCM, Zenworks, and Marimba.
The MSI install has the following installation features:
- Upgrade the Printer Driver without reboot while preserving the user settings using the MSI installer
- Automatic silent installation
- Automatic register/activate the Printer driver with a serial number
- Install the Printer driver for evaluation.
- Configure installation target directory.
- Configure the connection to license server with proxy server.
- Attempt to discover automatic proxy
- Use HTTP proxy
- Use SOCKS proxy
- Rebranding - Change the printer driver display name to a user-defined name
- Configure the default printer.
- Keep the user current Default Printer (default).
- Set Printer Driver to be the Default Printer for current user only.
- Set Printer Driver to be the Default Printer for every users
- Pre-configure the Email Sending feature feature.
- Pre-configure the Upload to HTTPS feature
- Pre-configure the Upload to FTPS-FTPES feature
- Pre-configure the Upload to DATABASE feature
- Enable or disable the Printer manager
- Add Agent (Task printers) printers.
- Pre-configure single or multiple Agent printer for a specific task.
- Pre-configure the printer driver using the configuration ini file.
- Such as file format, output directory, and more. Every feature of the printer driver can be pre-configured.
- Use Profile file to Configuration the printer.
- Hide Printer driver Printing Preferences Tab(s) from Users.
- Hide the Upload and Email Options from Users on the Printer driver Printing Preferences.
For example:
msiexec /i "[PATH]\BlackIceColorPlus.msi" CUSTOMINI="[PATH]\BuAiniNT.ini" REGNUM="XXXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX"
Please contact sales for more technical details on the MSI installer at sales@blackice.com.
Printer Driver MSI Installer Logging Registration Process
The Black Ice Printer Driver MSI Installer includes detailed logging of the registration process, in order to facilitate System Administrators and System Integrators to determine the success or failure of the automated Printer Driver Registration, in large scale deployments. The improved registration logging in the Printer Driver MSI Installer creates a BiPDMSIRegistrationDataLog.txt named log file automatically in the User’s temp folder.
(for example: c:\Users\Administrator\temp\BiPDMSIRegistrationDataLog.txt)
Requirements and Supported installation methods
Supported Installation methods using Group Policy Deployment;
- Assign to Computer (silent install)
- Assign to User (silent install)
- Publish
Additional supported installation method;
- Installation from command line (cmd.exe)
Requirement;
.NET framework 4.0 or higher (Only required for Microsoft MSI installer)
MSI Installers are available for the following Document Converter Printer Drivers:
- ColorPlus Printer Driver for both Desktop and Server
- ColorPlus X1 Printer Driver for both Desktop and Server
- PDF Printer Driver for both Desktop and Server
- PDF X1 Printer Driver for both Desktop and Server
- TIFF/Monochrome Printer Driver for both Desktop and Server
- TIFF/Monochrome X1 Printer Driver for both Desktop and Server
MSI Installer samples are available for OEM Printer Drivers!
For InstallShield MSI installer availability, please contact sales@blackice.com.
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