Chrome OS

New features:

• Account Codes - Prompt every time
  
  End users can now be prompted to enter an accounting code for every print job submitted. More information about how to configure this can be found here https://support.directprint.io/hc/en-gb/articles/4406428412951

• Dynamic QuickCodes

  Dynamic QuickCodes are made up of three sub-types:

  1. Fixed expiry, where the QuickCode has a validity window, ideal for conference printer access, for example.
  2. Duration access, where a QuickCode grants access to one or more printers for a specific duration e.g. 1 hour at a time.
  3. Single-use, where a QuickCode can be used once only, think voucher.
     
     
  Find out more here - https://support.directprint.io/hc/en-gb/articles/150001224106
  
  

Improvements:

• Edge Print
  It's now possible to attempt to route jobs via the local network before falling back to print via the cloud:
  1. Always route jobs via Edge Print (default) - This mode will send all print jobs for Edge-enabled printers via the cloud regardless of whether the user has direct IP connectivity to the printer.
     
     
  2. Attempt local printing first, fall back to Edge Print - This mode will attempt to send all print jobs for Edge-enabled printers directly, if local/direct printing fails, then the print job will be sent via the cloud.
  Please see the last section in this support article to discover how to enable configure this setting.
   
• Redundancy - You can now have multiple Edge Nodes logged in on the same Edge Account to provide redundancy. The Edge Nodes must have network connectivity to their assigned printers. The ability to define Multiple nodes is coming.
  
  
• Multiple Accounts - You can now set up multiple Edge Print Accounts. This is useful when you want a dedicated account to handle print jobs for a specific location as an example.

Bugfix:

• Fix relating to resource appearing offline network layer wake on LAN fix.

New features:

• Managing user-specific data - Administrators can now set user data such as PIN numbers or accounting codes via Google Workspace.
• directprint.io Accounting Codes - Enhancements to directprint.io Accounting Codes (dept codes) which provides a prompt for users to select defined accounting codes.
• LPD printing and Windows LPD print service support - directprint.io now supports the LPD protocol for direct printing to printers and to Windows LPD services.
  • LPD URIs may be manually specified in the admin console.
  • Direct Printing Example: lpd://10.4.5.6:515/raw.
  • LPD Windows Server Example: lpd://10.4.5.6:515/followme?spool=true

Improvement:

• Edge Print authorization, polling, and general stability improvements based on customer feedback.
• Edge Print Reciever - When the directprint.io app is configured in an Edge Print Reciever mode, a small yellow downwards arrow is displayed to highlight that it's in receiver mode. 

Bugfix:

• Some reports of multiple jobs being printed. Seems to be PCL6 printing only affected. Issue related to collating & copies (PDL level copies, PJL level collate) causing multiple copies.
  
  

New features:

• Edge Print.

Improvement:

• The full document name is shown when hovering over the print job in the print queue.

Bug fix:

• No longer printing unwanted multiple print jobs when PCL5 driver set.
• Refreshing the printer list always gets latest changes from administration updates.

New features:

• Added EPL Zebra support, fixed Terminal release bugs.
• Added  Zebra ZPLII support
• Improved page size detection collate and copies commands in postScript encoder
• PCL5mono: Improved paper size detection & auto output tray selection, 
• Improved accounting code input
• Edge print beta - sender and receiver
• Dymo LabelWriter Print Server

New features:

• Added PCL3GUI full job encoder
• New URF encoder capable of SGRAY_8 raster - support for brother label writers
• macOS release
• Dymo LabelWriter 450 support
• POS printers - Epson, Star receipt printers

New features:

• Streaming print mode: By default pages are sent when they are ready to be consumed by the printer, this is a major change vs the original prepare-all -> send all model. The result is that print send speed has increased significantly.
• PostScript encoder memory reduction. PostScript printing now requires a fraction of the printer memory it did before. For example HP LJ 3015p no longer gives ‘out of memory’ errors when using PostScript.
• PCLm support - driver now supports PCLm compatible printing.
• directprint.io connection test, ‘Settings and Client info’ contains a connection test to directprint.io services.
• Hardware copies are now automatically activated wherever possible. Manual copies is the exception, the ‘Hardware copies’ option will shortly be removed from directprint.io admin panel.
• Feature trials available in this version - please contact support if you would like to trial these features.

• Print bridge mode (origin trial only). Customers with ‘DMZ’ Chromebooks can now use a print bridge to proxy print requests from the DMZ Chromebook/edipoint network to a printer LAN.
• Support for receipt printers: Star TSP100iii (ethernet), Epson T88v (USB)
• Support for Dymo Wireless label writer

Bugfixes:

• Aggressive backgrounding of Chrome extensions in Chrome. Eliminated print/preview failures due to app script backgrounding.
• Missing printer lists - fixed due to backgrounding issue.

Bugfixes:

Policy defined (QuickCode JSON) driven printer configs onload improvements - printers were previously not showing in the list in Ephemeral mode.

New features:

Support for Secure printing on Sharp MX Range Printers with Sharp Document Security Kit installed

Bug fixes:

Slow conversion to mono on/after Page 3 issue solved.

Slow backside rotation issue on/after page 6 resolved.

New features:

• Editable PIN and Department code within the directprint.io app under the ‘Settings and Client Info’ link.
• Improved PPD parsing and advanced options selection to allow all printer advanced features such as Staple, Fold, Tray select, etc. See directprint.io for more details.

• See Advanced printing options in Chrome print dialog
• Faster & less memory-intensive PostScript document conversion
• More reliable IPP printing to low-end printers, smaller IPP chunk size now defaults.
• Large PIN popup option for on-printer secure print release - see directprint.io for more details
• Longer filename and username options in secure printing
• Xerox secure printing on Altalink, Workcenter, Versalink range of printers (XPIF support).
• Failed print job auto-delete: If a document remains unprinted for 1h then it will be automatically removed from the print queue in the client.

Note 1:

On the first run (any only 1st run) users may have to reselect the printer from the ‘See more’ printers dropdown option in the Chrome print dialog.

Uses will likely experience the Chrome printer spinner on screen for about 10 seconds before the printer list becomes available.

The last used printer and the list of commonly used printers will likely have been removed or if still present, when selected cause the client to select ‘Save As PDF’ from the short dropdown menu in the print preview.

Steps to resolve: Select ‘See more’ and reselect the printer from the long printer list to resolve any issues.

This change is due to internal printer IDs changing within the software to avoid potential ID clashes (security).

User journey outlined below: