A Document Conversion Tool by Black Ice Software

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 Vista. 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!
Operating Systems Supported

The Black Ice printer drivers are licensed by operating system. Each type of our printer drivers has versions for installing under Windows XP/Vista based machines, or Windows Terminal Server based machines.

Printer Drivers for XP/Vista

* 32 or 64bit Windows Vista
* 32 or 64bit Windows XP
* Windows 2000 Professional



Printer Drivers for Terminal Servers

* 32 or 64bit Windows 2008 Servers
* 32 or 64bit Windows 2003 Servers
* Windows 2000 Servers
(Terminal services MUST be present)
* Citrix Metaframe for Terminal Servers


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.

* 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:

* Multiple supported file formats
* Powerful programming interface
* Fast printing
* Extract ASCII text
* Multi page image generation
* Full control over the output directory
* Full control over the generated file name
* Launch an application
* Large paper size support
* High resolution (DPI) support
* Annotation Support
* Watermark support
* Bates Numbering
* Redirect printing to additional printers


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.

* Real-time printing status notification
* Change printer settings programmatically
* Easy installation with custom settings
* Programmatically control and query printjobs
* Customizable user interface provided
* Custom Plug-In Support
* Real Time Printer Driver Hook
* Printing without user interaction
* Batch Conversion

Licensing

The Black Ice printer drivers are all royalty free and are licensed per developed application, so you can incorporate them with your application without any additional license fees. The drivers are priced and licensed based on operating system type.

System Requirements

Windows XP/2000/NT Windows 2003, 2008, Citrix and Terminal Servers