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Version 2.1 Release Notes
Released 12-Mar-2003

Required Maintenance Date: 01-Feb-2003

This update contains the following new features and fixes:

1. The installation procedure has changed to use the Windows Installer. If you are upgrading from a previous version, please un-install that version before installing V2.1

2. The workstation installation option has been removed. To run GAIA Print Charger Administration from a workstation, create a shortcut to the GPCharge.exe program on the server and specify the database location with the path= parameter.

3. Added options to:

   1. Automatically print receipts with user defined heading information on either page or narrow printer.

   2. Notify users of a low net balance using  the Print Client or Windows messaging.

   3. Specify how charges affect user and department balances and whether to maintain separate print/copy and net balances.

   4. Save the database location on a web server for the Web Administration or Inquiry programs.

4. Removed options to:

   1. Specify the way the Overdraft Limit was applied. The overdraft is now simply added to the current balance to determine if a user can print/copy or access the net.

   2. Create user and department transactions; transactions are now always created.

5. Changed reports to:

   1. Fix sub totals on the Net Transactions Summary and Detailed reports.
   2. Allow for user names starting with underscores.
   3. Enhance the receipt report with:
      1. An option to allow range selection by time as well as date.
      2. An option to restrict the report to those receipts entered by a particular operator.
      3. Added the Entered By username to the report.

6. Fixed problems where:

   1. Sometimes the "No records to report" message was displayed for reports less than one page.
   2. The Net Monitor service would sometimes stop when analysing Squid logs and added more checking of result codes.
   3. Specific site entries in the net charges table were not always being recognized and the default charge was being applied.
   4. Copier connections over a WAN could be disconnected by network devices without the server being notified. Further connection requests then failed until the service was restarted.
   5. The PIN change procedure returned an error unless the user had write access to the database. Users now only require read access.
7. Added a Details tab to the About window to display the version of all modules.
8. Added a Paste button to the registration window to paste in a registration from the clipboard.
9. Changed the Net Charging History list to show MB instead of KB and rearranged columns.
10. Added a timestamp for the last time the charges were updated
11. Changed the lookup of users during automatic addition to search all trusted domains.
12. Added a test option to the web balance inquiry and restored the tags that were available in Net Charger V1.
13. Added logging of command line parameters to a new command line log file.
14. Changed page counting of Epson jobs to correctly handle remote mode commands.
15. Improved detection of colour in Postscript jobs for Windows 2000 supplied drivers. Non Windows 2000 Postscript drivers remain unsupported.
16. Added a message DLL to translate product specific event log messages.
17. Limited the number of consecutive error messages written to the print monitor log file.

Version 2.1 Updates

These updated modules fix problems reported in the V2.1 release. You are advised to download and install them only if you have the problem described or if requested to do so by GAIA Support. Otherwise you should wait for the next full release of the product. To install an update, copy the module to the folder where you installed the product and replace the original file.
If you downloaded the full product since 17-Jun-2003, you already have all these updates.

GAIA Print Monitor V2.1.7 (Released 16-Jun-2003) 845KB]

1. Fixed adding new users to the database with an automatic UserId if the option is set.
2. Fixed detection of PCL colour jobs printed in grayscale.
3. Fixed detection of A3 in Postscript for Phaser series printers.
4. Fixed a problem where users with a negative balance could print if the balance options in File/Options/General/Balances had never been set.
5. Fixed detection of colour in PCL6 for documents with images but no text.
6. Fixed colour detection for Xerox PCL6 from MS Photo Editor.
7. Fixed a problem where some department balances were reduced when the department balance option was set to add.

GAIA Print Charger Administration V2.1.4 (Released 26-May-2003) [2.12MB]

1. When the option to use a single balance was set, a user who had been removed from a group was not added back again when their balance was adjusted.
2. When using a single balance, the combined balance is now displayed in the print column and the net balances are hidden.
3. The Low Net Balance Amount field was not being set for users when group properties were applied.
4. The Low Print Balance Amount field had been omitted from the group properties screen.

GAIA Net Monitor V2.1.4 (Released 27-May-2003) 726KB]

1. When the option to use a single balance was set, a user who had been removed from a group was not added back again when their balance was adjusted.
2. The print balance instead of the net balance was sometimes affected for net charges.
3. Charging to a department affected the user balance instead of the department balance.
4. In some circumstances, users were added with the default group instead of their correct group.

GAIA Print Charger Payment Manager V2.1.2 (Released 04-Apr-2003) [1.56MB]

1. When the option to use a single balance was set, a user who had been removed from a group was not added back again when their balance was adjusted.
2. When using a single balance, the combined balance is now displayed in the print column and the net balances are hidden.
3. Reports have been updated to match those in GAIA Print Charger Administration.
4. The security options that were broken in V2.1.1 have been fixed.

GAIA Print Client V2.1.1 (Released 21-Mar-2003) 1.11MB]

1. The time field in Net Transactions was not displaying correctly.