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Drivers by Seagull

Spring 2006
 

New Features in
"Drivers by Seagull" 7.0.3 (and 7.0.2)

This summary covers new Drivers by Seagull features in versions 7.0.3 (released in early April) and 7.0.2 (released in early February). As always, the latest drivers can be downloaded for free from our web site.

If you need more information on which driver versions first supported a given feature, please see

Drivers by Seagull Version History

New Printer Models (February and April)
Support has been added for a variety of the latest printers from cab, Citizen, Datamax, Intermec, SATO and Zebra.

Expanded RFID Printer Support (February and April)

  • UCODE EPC 1.19 tag support added for Monarch and Avery Dennison printers.
  • EPC Gen 2 tag support added for printers from Avery Dennison, Intermec (IPL), TEC and Zebra (ZPL).

Please refer to the table on our web page showing all currently supported RFID models and standards.

Printing Preferences Offer Enhanced Multi-user Capabilities (April)

  • Printing “Preferences” are now saved from one terminal services session to the next (including on Citrix). Previously, due to a shortcoming in Terminal Services, there were situations where the driver settings would not be maintained between sessions.
  • Preferences may now be optionally shared among all users on a network.
  • Printing preferences may now be shared between all documents. Changes made from within the Window Printers Folder to the default printing preferences will then take precedence over any settings saved with the document.
  • Improved network security support allows system administrators to restrict which users may modify printing preferences.

Support for Improved BarTender Export Functions
for Code 128 and UCC/EAN-128 (April)
The following bar code capabilities were already a part of BarTender’s normal Code 128 support. The functionality has now been extended to include BarTender-generated printer code templates (PCTs). (A PCT is special printer code that is output from BarTender and then modified by and printed under the control of other software.)

  • When exporting printer code templates containing Code 128 bar codes from BarTender 7.74 (and higher), the printer driver can now make optimal use of any fixed Code 128 code set modes or auto encoding modes supported by the printer.
  • With UCC/EAN 128, the initial FNC1 character will now be included when appropriate.
  • When printing UCC/EAN-128, the printer driver will now take advantage of printers that support formatting the human readable with parentheses and/or spaces.

Enhanced Cutting and Media Handling (April)
New or improved media handling features have been added to numerous printer families. While these features are available to any application that prints from Windows, they were written so you can take particular advantage of them from BarTender.

Please see BarTender’s new features page from this newsletter for more details on enhanced cutting and media handling.

For More Information

Don’t forget, there is a wealth of printer driver information available on our main printer driver web page, including update history, a list of the latest supported models, and (as always) free downloads:

Main "Drivers by Seagull" web page
 

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