The Enable Advanced Printing Features option changes how and where documents are transformed into the native print language. If this option is turned off, documents will spool in RAW format (e.g. Postscript, PCL, or the printer's native language), allowing PaperCut to count pages and detect other job attributes such as duplex, grayscale, etc. by analyzing the data directly rather then relying on the count reported by the driver. Some printers will account more accurately after making this change. To force clients (workstations) to spool documents in RAW format, perform the following steps on the server (not the workstations):

1. On the print server, Start->Settings->Printers
2. Right-click on the printer and select Properties...
3. Select the Advanced Tab
4. Turn off (disable) the Enable advanced printing features
5. Test your printing and ensure logging is continuing as normal

You can read more about this setting on the Microsoft website at:

The option use to be called Always spool in RAW in windows versions prior to Windows 2000. (ed note: IMHO This was a more appropriate name, but Microsoft must have decided that it sounded to technical for home users do have dummed it down to "Advanced Features"!)

One other added benefit of this change is that rendering load is transfered from the server to the client (clients render the jobs into Postscript/PCL rather than the server), and hence this reduces the load on the server.

Please note that as of PaperCut version 5.2, making this change is not normally required.

Categories: Troubleshooting

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