Printer's Plan version 2024.08 Service Release Notes Follow

Printer's Plan Service Release Version 2024.08:

This article outlines the new features, improvements, and fixes implemented since the initial release of the 2024.00 version of Printer's Plan. To see a listing of the features of the initial release please refer to the following article: 2024.00 Release Notes

New Features - Large Format Printing:

Document Size Changes

On a large format item, if there is a change to the document size a new alert will appear:

On this alert, if you click Yes (recommended) then all the large format material services on the item will be updated to use this new size. Clicking No will maintain the existing layout parameters previously established. Please note, this alert will only appear when a new document size is entered. If the Width and Height fields are reversed, this alert will not appear.

Large Format Materials without a Default Material Size

Large format materials can now be set up without requiring a predefined material size. This can be accomplished by leaving the Size field of a Large Format Medium service empty:

When this material is selected on an item, in the layout window, the size field will be editable. Initially, this size will be set to the item's document size:

This size field can be modified to the size of the material, by entering either a roll width or the size of the flat sheet:

Once the size of the material is entered, the layout of the item will be recalculated based on this new dimension.

Fixes and Improvements:

Fix: On a large format job, under certain conditions (typically when a large format service was auto-added to a job), the number of Up on a large format material was set to zero, this caused a pricing discrepancy. This is now fixed.

Fix: On a large format paneling job, if all of the following conditions were true then there was a pricing discrepancy:

  • The medium service (roll or flat) is set to multi-panel on the item.
  • The medium service is set to 'No-Print'.
  • The medium service is configured to charge based on the Total Document Area.
  • If there is a printed material on the job (along with the non-print material), and this material is also multi-paneled then the pricing for both materials is correct as long as the number of panels for both materials is the same. If the number of panels is different, the calculation for the non-print material is incorrect.

This pricing discrepancy is now fixed.

Fix: In the New Item(s) window, setting the Copy from Templates>All as the default selection did not save. This is now fixed and the selection will be saved as the computer's default.

Fix: If an item on a quote had additional quantities separated by a comma (instead of the space), the Job Link view of this item would not be displayed. This is now fixed and the item will now be properly displayed.

Fix: If one of the customers in the Customers table had a null (empty) parent number then some of the Print Reach Central pages would not work properly. This is now fixed and a null parent number will no longer cause these issues.

Fix: The following conditions caused a discrepancy on a Job Link quote for a Large Format item:

  1. The difficulty setting of the material was set to a value other than Normal:  
  2.  The item included multiple quantity pricing.

When these conditions were true, the additional quantity pricing did not account for the increased difficulty level. This is now fixed and the additional quantity pricing will include this factor.

Fix: When displaying a job via Job Link, in some scenarios an item with multiple papers did not reflect the correct price for additional quantities. This is now fixed.

Fix: When copying and pasting an Order as a new Order, if the original order had a payment, then the payment note stored in the Customer Memo field was copied to the new order. This is now fixed and the payment note is no longer copied to the new order.

Fix: The Job Status column in My Plan displayed the status number and not the status name. This is now fixed and the column will display the status name.

Fix: In some instances, if the end-user rearranged the columns on a list (for example, Orders> In Progress) and then printed the list on the screen, the totals at the bottom of the page may not have matched up with the correct column header. This is now fixed.

Fix: When using Job Link to send a quote, if the Job Link email was configured to automatically attach a PDF version of the Quote the print options for this quote did not use the default settings of the document.  This is now fixed and the PDF version of the quote will use the default print options for the document.

Fix: Fixed an issue relating to the custom Job Status options for Template Jobs. If the sort order of the Status options for Template Jobs was altered, for example, moving "Digital Printing" to the top of the list, there was an issue in the New Item window -- template items no longer showed up with the correct template status option. This is now fixed and the template status option will list the correct items. 

Fix: There was an issue where the Invoice Printed count on a job was increased when generating a PO document. This is now fixed and the Invoice Printed count will no longer increase when a PO document is created.

Fix: When processing a Quick Sale payment using a payment terminal, if the initial payment failed, and then the transaction was processed again successfully, under this scenario any Program Fees related to the transaction were duplicated. This is now fixed.

Fix: When creating a Purchase Order, document the cost amounts were not merged to the document, this is now fixed.

Fix: When emailing a PDF document, in some cases, the correct logo file was not being used. This is now fixed.

Fix: When the My Jobs Only option was enabled for a user, after copying a job as a new job, if either of the following conditions were true then an incorrect job may have been printed/emailed:

  • Copy and Paste a job to the same job type where the job's CSR differs from the computer's default CSR.
  • Copy and Paste a job to a different job type where the job's CSR is different than the computer's default CSR and the copy and paste options are not set to update the CSR.

This issue is now fixed and the correct job will be printed/emailed.

Fix: If a template item included a paper service where the 'Print As' field was empty the pricing request API did not return a price, this is now fixed.

Fix: On the Deposit and A/R payment window the employees listed in the Processed By field will now be listed by their sort order. The computer's default CSR will still be the initial record selected in this field:

Fix: On the About Caliper window, the 'Show me more examples' button will now open the Paper Caliper Help page:

Improvement: In the Settings>General Settings> Shop Options window there is a new Time Zone field. The selection in this field will impact all users connected to the Printer's Plan database:

Improvement: The Printer's Plan API was updated to allow Print Reach Central to filter the Payment History by multiple Payment Methods.

Improvement: The Printer's Plan API version (2/09/24 and later) includes the latest enhancements to the large format pricing engine.

Improvement: Created additional logging for the SAGE integration.

Improvement: On a Quote, if an item has multiple quantity pricing, and the item is copied within a job, if a new quantity is entered the program will now recalculate the price of the item at this quantity. Previously, the item did not get repriced on a quantity change.

Improvement: Some of the user-specific configuration settings have been moved from the Windows registry to a new Config file. This change allows the Printer's Plan settings to be maintained in the event a user changes to a new computer. The only user setting that will remain in the registry is the path of the configuration file.

Improvement: On Cloud Hosted Printer's Plan, when using the PlanPDF print driver to generate PDF files for emailing PDF attachments, the registry settings of the PlanPDF driver are now automatically updated to match the settings in Printer's Plan. Previously this setting had to be manually configured in the registry.

Improvement: In the Web.config file of the Printer's Plan API there is a new setting that stores the location of the Printer's Plan ShippingConfig file. This setting on the Web.Config file has the following format:

<appSettings>
          <add key="ShippingConfigFilePath" value="[ShippingConfig.txt file path]" />
</appSettings>

Improvement: To improve the performance of the Printer's Plan database the following fields are now indexed in the Jobs table: 

  • DateProof
  • DateDue
  • DateShipped
  • DateReorder
  • DatePayDue
  • DatePaid
  • CSR
  • SRep
  • TaxNo
  • BuyerNo
  • JobTag
  • TermsNo

 

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