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Black Ice Printer Driver Overview

The Black Ice printer drivers are highly optimized, feature rich document conversion tools which allows application developers and system integrators to harness cutting edge document conversion technology.  Any printable file can be converted into an image file such as TIFF, JPEG, PDF, EMF and more.  The Black Ice printer drivers support all available Windows platforms, from Windows 2003 through Windows 95.  Additionally, all of the Black Ice printer drivers are Royalty Free, meaning that an unlimited number of drivers can be installed without any additional licensing costs!

Available Printer Drivers

There are several available Black Ice printer drivers, allowing developers to pick and choose the printer driver(s) which best meet their needs.  For detailed information about a specific Black Ice printer driver, please select one of the following products, licensed by operating system.

Printer Driver Type

XP/2000/NT
(non Terminal Server)
2003, Citrix and Terminal Servers
ME/98/95
Monochrome TIFF Printer Drivers
Color Printer Drivers
PDF Printer Drivers
ColorPlus PDF Printer Drivers
EMF Printer Drivers

Key Printer Driver Features

The Black Ice printer drivers include a wide range of powerful features, such as extracting ASCII text or full control over the output directory and filename. The Black Ice Printer Driver key features are listed below:

Key Features

XP/2000/NT (Non Terminal Server) 2003, Citrix and Terminal Servers ME/98/95
Multiple supported file formats
Yes
Yes
Yes
Powerful programming interface
Yes
Yes
Yes
Fast printing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Extract ASCII text
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi page image generation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Full control over the output directory
Yes
Yes
Yes
Full control over the generated file name
Yes
Yes
Yes
Launch an application
Yes
Yes
Yes
Large paper size support
Yes
Yes
Yes
High resolution (DPI) support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Annotations support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Watermark support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bates Numbering
Yes
Yes
No
Redirect printing to additional printers
Yes
Yes
No

The Printer Driver API

The Black Ice printer drivers come with a powerful API called the Resource Toolkit or RTK, which includes several sample applications and utilities with full source code, written in C++, Visual Basic, C#.NET, Visual Basic .NET, Delphi, and more.

The Printer Driver API (RTK) ensures fast integration of the Black Ice printer drivers with the developed application, including changing printer settings programmatically, easy installation samples, etc.

Printer Driver API Features

XP/2000/NT (Non Terminal Server) 2003, Citrix and Terminal Servers ME/98/95
Real-time printing status notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change printer settings programmatically
Yes
Yes
Yes
Easy installation with custom settings
Yes
Yes
Yes
Programmatically control and query printjobs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Customizable user interface provided
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Plug-In Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Real Time Printer Driver Hook
Yes
Yes
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Printing without user interaction
Yes
Yes
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Batch Conversion
Yes
Yes
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