Ranger Print Manager: Release Information

Ranger Print Manager v2.3

New Features:

Windows 2003 is now fully supported. Previously, job attributes like paper size, colour and duplex were sometimes not detected.

The Administration program has been updated to:

• Run on all Windows operating systems 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/   2003 (features not supported by 95/98/Me are disabled).
  
• A Program Access table has been added to the browse menu and toolbar allowing you to limit access to the GAIA Print Charger Administration. This made the Payment Manager application redundant so it has been removed.
  
• Added an "Apply Now" button to scheduled adjustments to allow the adjustment to be manually applied.
• Changed the "Purge Users" option to allow selection of users by group or those not in the domain database. This allows you to delete users   who have already been removed from the domain in NT4 or Active Directory.
  
• Add Graph buttons to the Printers, Copiers and Net History browse lists.
 
• Save the window sizes and locations between runs.
• Fixed the Global Wizard that was not always setting correct group initial balances.
• Fixed the Purge Department Transactions option that was not deleting all transactions prior to the selected date.
• Added an option to set the time between low net balance notifications.
• The Payment Manager has been removed. Now you can setup Program Access controls for the full Administration program instead.
• The Print Client now prompts for confirmation before closing to stop users accidentally closing it and then being unable to print.
• The Web Administration and PIN change procedures now use template html files like the web inquiry to format the pages for display to users, allowing you to customize them for your site.
• Previously the maximum size of a customized web page was 4KB. There is now no limit.

The following problems were fixed:

• Only the last scheduled balance adjustment was being applied.
• The print monitor service sometimes stopped for EMF jobs containing an unusual combination of attributes.
• User authentication failed for copy charging in the User/Dept code format when a PIN length of zero was set.
• Message boxes in the Administration and Print Client programs now display correctly on Windows XP.
• N-up printing was not being detected for some Lexmark postscript drivers.
• Many sections of the on-line help file have been rewritten and updated.
• Ranger Print Charger has been combined with Net Charger to provide a similar means of restricting and accounting for users' Internet usage time.
• Net Charger is not included in the standard Ranger product suite, it can however, be purchased from Gaia (Australia) and activated via an updated licence key. Contact Sentinel for details.

Net Charger features:

• Simultaneously monitor Microsoft Proxy Server 2, Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and Squid on Linux.
• Optionally deny access to the proxy server when a user runs out of credit. Automatically allow access again when their balance is positive.
• Date and time of last access for users and departments.
• lexible charging rates based on destination.

Charging rate modifiers based on client address.

Extensive logging.

See http://www.printcharger.com for more information