Released: Apr 11, 2011

Updates in this release

Updates in 4.0

• A complete and re-written labeling engine.
• An unified object model which will allows you to create ONE label and print it to either ZPL or EPL printer getting the SAME output printing.
• Added preview thermal labels without needed a physical printer. It is useful for testing as well as developing.
• Added Print Orientation feature. You can now print ThermalLabel objects in Portrait and Landscape orientation with 90, 180 & 270 degrees rotation.
• Added exportation of PrintJob & ThermalLabel objects to raster images in formats like PNG, BMP, GIF, JPEG & TIFF (including multipage TIFF).
• Added exportation of PrintJob & ThermalLabel objects to Adobe PDF without the need of any third-party software.
• Added Caching feature to ThermalLabel items to improve printing performance.
• A new BarcodeItem object with lots of new features.
• Added a new dithering method for auto-thresholding based on Otsu method. It is used for ImageItem objects.
• You can print or send commands to a stream object.
• Added Buffering feature to PrintJob class. Buffering allows you to control how the processed printer commands in the PrintJob object are sent to the printer.
• You can now specify the printer name as well as the connection timeout when using network printing.