GAIA Print Charger™
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Version 2.4 Release Notes
Released 28-May-2004

Required Maintenance Date: 01-May-2004

This major update contains the following new features and fixes:

1. A Release Station module has been added to hold jobs for users until they are present at the printer. The module will run on a Windows computer adjacent the printer and allow users to print or cancel their jobs. This module is licensed per release station similar to the copier licence. An evaluation licence will allow you to test one release station.

2. The number of printers supported per server has been increased from 60 to 1024 making it virtually unlimited for large schools and universities. The service will start as many processes as necessary to monitor all printers. A consequence of this, however, is that the service must be restarted when new printers are added.

3. 4 new paper sizes can now be detected.

4. Users can now be added to a global group instead of removed to deny internet access.

5. The Administration program has been updated to:

   1. Add extra columns to the print jobs lists to display colour and/or duplex status.

   2. Add Graph buttons to the User and Dept Print Jobs and Internet tabs.

   3. Extend the service account name that was previously limited to 20 characters.
   4. Fix program access security that was denying access for all groups when both groups and users were defined.
   5. Fix the extract print jobs option that sometimes failed to extract all jobs for all printers in the range.
   6. Fix the manual internet charging option that was not charging for start dates when the day was less than 10 and the data base path contained spaces.
   7. Fix the user internet summary by group report that was using the print balance instead of the internet balance to select users to report.
   8. Add /multi command line switch to allow multiple instances for terminal services.

6. The Client program has been updated to:

   1. Extra columns have been added to the print jobs lists to display colour and/or duplex status.
   2. Graph buttons have been added to the Printing and Internet tabs.
   3. Fix problems where department codes being typed in were not being validated correctly.
   4. When hiding the department list, codes had to be typed in uppercase.
   5. Close all network connections when it is idle and check for a network connection before all database access. This is in response to users who unplug their laptop without closing the client or logging off.

7. The following problems were fixed:

   1. Jobs were charged but remained in the queue when using the monitored/output monitoring method.
   2. Page size and colour detection was not correct for some PCL5 drivers.
   3. Charging was unreliable for the the monitored/output monitoring method under Windows 2003.
   4. N-up printing for EMF spooling when the n-up was set in printer properties instead of the application was not always detected.
   5. New users were being added to the database regardless of the "Auto Add" option.

Version 2.4 Updates

These updated modules fix problems reported in the V2.4 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 11-Aug-2004, you already have all these updates.

Gaia Print Monitor V2.4.4 (Released 14-Sep-2004) [867KB]

1. Modifications to support PCL6 version 3 used by the HP Laserjet 3500.
2. Modifications to allow the release station to operate with the dual queue monitoring method.
3. Modifications to continuously retry when client communications are interrupted.
4. Fixed charging to user when the printer was set for no charging but the page cost table contained charges.
5. Fixed costs on department charging transactions when the default printer charge was set to zero.

Gaia Print Charger Administration V2.4.1 (Released 11-Jun-2004) [2.50MB]

1. The command line interface sometimes reported errors when updating balances during busy Internet charging periods.

Gaia Net Monitor

1. ISA 2004 support. Contact us for a patch to support ISA 2004's log file names or upgrade to V2.5.

Gaia Payment Manager V2.2.0 [1.66MB]

A few customers, especially university departments, who don't have administrator rights to their network, have found it difficult to setup and use the program access features introduced in V2.3 Gaia Administration. If you are affected, you might like to download this Payment Manager module from the previous version. It does not give you access to as many options as the current version but may be easier to setup in your situation.