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PaperCut MF 12.0 (Build 16338)
Posted on 19 January 2012 12:19 PM

New features:

  • Conversion Filters - This feature provides the functionality to convert color jobs to grayscale and simplex jobs to duplex. E.g. convert jobs on high volume printers to duplex to save paper, automatically convert emails printed in color to grayscale.
  • New Executive Summary report providing organization-wide summary statistics and environmental impact.
  • The user web interface has been updated with a new modern look.
  • PaperCut has a new icon!

Enhancements:

  • Added support for a new custom dashboard widget to display customer/site specific messages/notices to administrators.
  • Web Cashier:
    • Operators can now look up users by card number (including though use of an attached card reader).
    • When a purchase would take an unrestricted user's balance below $0, a confirmation message is now displayed.
  • When restarting the application server on large sites the reconnection of secondary servers is now staggered to prevent high load.
  • New advanced print scripting scripts and snippets:
    • snippet for denying jobs printed out of hours
    • script to convert email printing to grayscale
    • when printing a large job, ask the user if they would like to automatically convert to duplex to save paper
  • New translations for Danish and Polish, plus significant updates to French and Spanish.
  • Internet control: Added a config option to swap the sent and receieved bytes parse from proxy log files.

Fixes:

  • Fixed problem using Web Cashier with Swiss Francs.
  • Fixed problem when logging in to the PaperCut App for iOS if the username is entered containing uppercase characters.
  • Disallow printer scripts setting the print job costs to NaN (not a number). This resulted in failing to record the print job.
  • Fixed display of printer hardware check related screens in some languages.
  • Fixed issue disabling pay stations from the Devices tab in the administration interface.
  • Fixed the Rates page in the user web interface to display only printers.
  • Fixed minor status reporting problem when testing shared account imports.

Printer compatibility improvements:

  • Fixed page count detection for TOSHIBA e-STUDIO 855 PostScipt duplex jobs with odd numbers of pages.
  • Improved page size detection for Adobe InDesign documents printed to Xerox PostScript printers from Mac.
  • Fixed page count detection for HP LaserJet M4345 MFP PCL6.
  • Improved grayscale detection in Sharp PostScript printers.
  • Added page size detection for NEC MultiWriter 8250N printer.

Copier / Device Integration:

  • Value loader devices supporting user self-registration: Added an option to use the swiped card number as the username of the created user.
  • Sharp Onboard/Embedded (OSA): Fixed a problem that could cause the "Unable to enable device" error that could appear if the user double clicked the "OK" button on the account confirmation screen.
  • Xerox Onboard/Embedded (Network Accounting / JBA): Enforce the group-based access controls to login to the MFP device.
  • Xerox Onboard/Embedded (Xerox Secure Access): Added support for USB card readers supported on some recent Xerox MFPs.