Black Ice Software is proud to announce the Printer Driver version 16.65 with new features to Trim whitespace around pages, Crop margin or an area on pages, or split documents into pieces after a specific number of pages.

The new Trim whitespace feature is designed for the Oil and Gas Drilling industry to convert Well logs to TIFF or PDF. Each Oil and Gas Well Log has a unique length and using the same long page size when printing can result in a large white space on the bottom of the page. The Trim whitespace feature will now remove the unwanted empty white area.

The Trim feature supports color, black and white, and grayscale. One can configure the Printer Driver to Trim the whitespace based on the grayscale intensity. By using the grayscale intensity, the document will automatically be trimmed up to the first occurrence of a configured intensity.

The new Crop margin and area feature is an efficient way for users to automatically crop, or cut away the unwanted areas and borders of the printed pages.

Also included in this release is The Split Documents feature, which allows users to split the printed documents after a specific number of pages.

The new Split feature can be useful in situations such as printing invoices, where the invoices are saved as a large multipage document. Users can now split the invoices into separate Tiff or PDF files with a single print job.

Final improvements include, added improvements for registration on systems that utilize Bluetooth Network Connections and new licenses validation which reduces the network traffic by 50 percent compared to previous releases.

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

DATE: 08-16-2021
Version: 16.65 (revision: 2699)

• Added feature to the printer drivers to trim whitespace around page content (#14188)
• Added new Page Formatting tab to the Printer Manager (#14305)
• Switched X1 Printer Drivers to subscription based licensing
• Improved performance of online license validation (#13808)
• Stability improvement for registration and license validation on systems that use Bluetooth Network Connections (#13979)
• Decreased file size and increased quality of 8-bit grayscale PDF output (#13873)
• Stability improvement for printing into image formats with the "Enable advanced printing features" option disabled (#14217)
• Added suffix to output file names when using the "Exact filename" option without the "Overwrite the existing file" option and the output file already exists (#13864)
• Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.1.732
• Updated JPEG DLL to version 12.82.806
• Updated TIFF DLL to version 12.83.819
• Updated eLicense dll version to 6.22.280

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