GAIA Print Charger

V1.5 Release Notes
Released 27-Oct-2000

Required Maintenance Date: 01-Oct-2000

 

This major release contains the following:

  1. Monitoring can now be achieved using a single printer queue. The output printer method is still retained for use when you want to redirect the jobs to another computer.
  2. Epson printers using the ESC/P2 language are supported.
  3. Page size, colour and duplex are now detected. (Colour detection is not available for Postscript). The first few characters of a user transaction identifies the paper size, and whether colour and/or duplex was specified.
  4. A new page cost table has been added to the printer definition on the Charging tab. This allows you to specify black, colour and duplex page costs for different paper sizes.
  5. The Setup Wizard now sets up monitoring using a single printer without an output printer.
  6. New setup options have been added to:
    a. Allow you to specify other domains to search when the user is not found in the local domain.
    b. Add a user transaction when a job fails.
    c. Allow the department name entered into the popup client to be hidden like a password.
    d. Automatically backup the database every day.
    e. Allow a username to be passed to the web balance inquiry program. This enables the system manager to inquire on any user over the web.
  7. The maximum number of printers that can be monitored on a single server has been increased from 32 to 60. However, this is a theoretical rather than a practical limit and we do not recommend you load a single server with this many printers.
  8. When adding receipts, the user list now sorts correctly by Full Name.
  9. A problem where the Adjust Balance window did not close if the option "Create User Transactions" was not enabled has been fixed.
  10. The monitor now handles documents with names up to the maximum allowed by Windows of 260 characters.
  11. A client notification message now remains as the top window and is not hidden under other windows.
  12. Client messages are no longer truncated to 255 characters.
  13. A problem where the client on Win 9x displayed a 'Path not found' error for some usernames containing periods has been fixed.
  14. A new option has been added to the File menu to allow you to test the popup client from the server.
  15. Vertical scroll bars have been removed from all list boxes and replaced with VCR style navigation controls at the bottom of the boxes. Previously, the scroll bars on the list boxes did not operate as expected because the list boxes are page loaded. That is, the records are only read when requested by the user and the operating system did not know the number of records to be displayed so it was unable to calculate the scroll thumb stop points.
  16. The client on a workstation running multiple protocols no longer displays duplicate messages if you cancel the first message very quickly.
  17. A problem where multiple copies for some HP4000 series printers were not being detected has been fixed.

Upgrading

If you are upgrading, you must check that your registration maintenance date is at least the date shown above. The product will not run if your registration has a maintenance date prior to the release date. To upgrade your maintenance, contact us.

Upgrading will not affect your existing database

Installation

If you are upgrading from a previous version
1. Stop the GAIA Print Monitor service on all servers using the copy to be upgraded.
2. Close the Administration and Payment Manager applications.
3. Close the Balance Inquiry and Print Client application on all client workstations.

Run the file you downloaded to expand it into an empty directory, then run Setup.

If you are upgrading, the installation procedure will default to the current folders.