ExtremeZ-IP 5.0 (Released: February 2007)

* Added Print Accounting features to the standard Print Server. Print Accounting allows administrators to

* Require end-users to enter accounting codes before printing, right from within the Mac OS X print dialog

* Track and allocate costs incurred when using expensive printing resources such as color printers or proofers

* Validate codes immediately against a centralized list to enable printing

* Log jobs to a central repository, which is then exportable in a tab-delimited format

* Track key characteristics in each log such as job name, user name, time and date of printing, number of copies, page size, number of pages, size of job in bytes and the print queue that was used

* Configure account codes in real time with no client side changes; configure codes with customizable labels control whether codes must be validated against the server; and control whether the list of codes are displayed to clients

* Automatically update validation codes and export job logs through programming interfaces
* Added support for performance counters. ExtremeZ-IP publishes counter data so that the status of ExtremeZ-IP print queues can be tracked with tools such as Perfmon and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). Some examples of available counters are "Print Queues Offline", "Bytes Printed/sec" and "Total Pages Printed".
* Improved support for handling errors when printing to an LPR print queue. Non-fatal errors (such as the LPR printer having a full queue) now cause the job to go offline but do not disable the entire print queue. These offline jobs will be automatically retried until they successfully print. More information on this new feature and its configuration options can be found in the user manual.
BUG FIXES:

* Fixed a problem where printers supporting Print Accounting through Direct Print would hang when print jobs were submitted that had either missing or invalid print accounting codes. [#6808] [5.0x138]