Learn how to install, activate, set up, and use Print Conductor. These how-to guides will help you improve the printing processes in your office or home environment.
Installation & activation
How to Install and Activate Print Conductor
- Trial version and commercial version compared
- Activate Print Conductor license automatically
- Activate Print Conductor license manually
- Legal information
- Where to check the Serial Number (license key) of the activated version
- Uninstallation
How to Keep Your Settings When Re-Installing Print Conductor
How to Deploy Print Conductor in Silent Mode
- Installation and license usage
- Installation and activation via command line
- Trial version
- Commercial version
- How to install the commercial version in silent mode
- How to install & activate commercial version in silent mode
- How to install & activate commercial version in silent mode with "Add to Windows context menu explorer" option enabled
- How to install & activate commercial version in silent mode, and disable program's checks for updates
- Uninstallation
Print Conductor Interface
How to Customize Print Conductor Interface to Your Preferences
Print Conductor Settings
Configuring the print settings
Document Printing Settings
- Set page range
- Set the number of copies (Copies)
- Set duplex mode (two-sided printing)
- Select printer tray (paper source)
- Set paper source for selected pages
- Set page collation (sorting of pages)
- Print password-protected documents
- Print document pages in reverse order
- Set post processing actions after printing
- Edit source files when they are being printed
- Change the TEMP folder for temporary files
- Preview documents before printing
- Disable printing blank pages
- Set print job names via built-in macros
- Print every N page(s) as a new print job
How to Set Color Mode in Print Conductor: Color vs. Grayscale Printing and Tips for Customization
- What is the default color mode option in Print Conductor?
- Grayscale printing
- Printing document pages in their original color: As in document
- Changing color detection threshold by setting Min pixels quantity threshold
- Color mode for selected pages: Printing part of pages in Color and other in Grayscale mode
- Q&A
Printing on multiple printers & load balancing
Managing program and printer workflows: save, load, and revert settings
How to Manage Print Settings in Print Conductor
- Using printer from the last session or default system printer
- Keep printer-specific settings when switching to another printer of the same model
- Restore previous Print Conductor window position on monitor display at startup
- Discard or keep changes to Printer Properties on program exit
- Clear or restore the List of Documents on program startup
- Restore the List of Documents from the last session
- Q&A
Changing the number of copies
Using the List of Documents
How to Add Files for Printing
- Load a list from Print Conductor's FLIST file
- Load files from selected folders at program start
- Add files that have a non-standard file extension
- Add the same files to the List more than once (Unique content in file list)
- Quickly send files to Print Conductor using the right mouse click (Add to Windows Explorer context menu)
How to Configure the List of Documents for Printing
- Save & load columns' configuration using restore points
- Ensure printing in the correct order
- Change print settings for each file individually
- Add a time delay between printing each document
- Quickly find files in the List of Documents (Ctrl + F)
- View history of actions made to your List of Documents (Ctrl + H)
- Enable Print Preview for selected items in the List (Show preview pane)
- Export List of Documents with current print settings
Service pages
How to Use Cover Pages
- Cover page for documents
- Cover pages for folder
- Cover page Designer
- Change paper size for service pages
- Set paper source for service pages
- How to print cover pages only
- How to print cover page in the same print job with the document
- How to insert cover page on the same sheet of paper as the document
Watermarking
How to Add Watermarks: Text, Image or Barcode Watermark
- Text watermark
- Text watermark parameters
- Add page numbers
- Place custom watermark on page center
- Add filename to header or footer
- Set colored background
- Use item's index number as a text watermark
- Insert multi-line text watermark
- Add consecutive (continuous) page numbering using macro {ConsecutivePageNo})
- Add sequence numbers to PDF pages
- Add number of document's copies to each printed page
- Description of all Text watermark macros
- Image watermark
- Barcode watermark
Use cases involving watermarks
How to Add Text or Image as Watermarks to Relevant Documents, Matching them Together in Excel for Further Batch Printing
- Add text watermarks and match them with relevant documents listed in Excel
- Add background image and text to documents listed in Excel
- Add text, image, and a QR-code as watermarks to documents listed in Excel
How to Print Numbered Copies by Adding {copy} and Total {copies} on Each Page
Post-processing actions
Print Conductor & other software
Batch printing various file types
How to Print Multiple PDF Files at Once
How to Print Multiple Word Documents (DOC, DOCX) at Once
- Quick steps to mass print Word documents
- Printing Word documents black and white (grayscale) or in color
- How to change page orientation when printing DOC or DOCX files
- Applying Word's Update Fields, Hide Revisions/Comments, and other print options
- Printing Word documents with external data
- Changing print engine if DOC or DOCX files are not correctly rendered
- Printing Word files if they have non-standard file extension (other than .doc or .docx)
- Additional software for Word documents processing
- Questions or issues?
How to Batch Print Excel Spreadsheets
- Print all, default or specific worksheets only
- Set scale mode
- Print in landscape or portrait orientation
- Print Excel sheet on one page
- Print gridlines in Excel
- Print row and column headings (titles) on every page
- Print comments in Excel
- Print a defined print area only
- Split Excel files into worksheets when printing
- Batch print spreadsheets without Microsoft Excel
- Batch print Excel files from the command line
- Other features
How to Batch Print Email Message Files
- Quick steps on how to print Outlook emails with Print Conductor
- What email message files can be printed with Print Conductor
- How to print multiple emails from Outlook in Print Conductor
- How to print attachments before or after the document
- How to print a cover page between email message body and attachments
- How to sort attachments before printing
- How to handle attachments of unknown type
- How to print placeholder instead of attachment by file mask
- How to ensure that a file and its attachment are printed in one job
- How to print without attachments: using include/exclude filter mask
- How to change page size when printing email message files
- How to shrink embedded images in MSG, EML files if they exceed the page size (Downscale shapes to page size)
- How to sort files by email delivery time before printing
- How print multiple emails to a single PDF file (virtual printing)
How to Batch Print CAD Files
- Batch print CAD drawings step-by-step
- Advanced print settings for CAD drawings
- Supported formats and printing devices
- How to print only active sheet of DWG files
- How to disable printing "Not to Plot" layers
- Publishing multiple drawing sheets to a single multi-page PDF
- How to print DWG, DXF and other CAD formats without AutoCAD
Validating digital signatures
Troubleshooting
- Printing doesn't work even after "X documents printed successfully" dialog
- Keep Printer Properties intact after using Print Conductor
- Disable "Save to..." prompts when printing to PDF
- The printouts of my HTML files don't look as expected
- Set printing based on page size if document pages are different
- "Configuration Parser Error" (0x80070005)
- Adding files doesn't work after installation of Print Conductor
- Images look distorted when printing to TIFF
- "Access violation, WINSPOOL.DRV error" (0xc0000005)
- PC crashes with BSOD after printing (KB5000802 update)
- Keep the original order of files when adding them to Print Conductor
- Batch print HWP (Hanword Document) files
- Get more details about any printing error
- Avoid entering ID or password for every file in the print session
- Printing of files is slow / interface is working slowly
- Print PDF pages 'As is' (in original size), without shrinking
- Print the first page single-sided (simplex) and remaining pages double-sided (duplex)
- "Unsupported file type" error
- "Empty range" error
- "Plugin timeout" error
- Text on CAD drawings is difficult to read after printing them
- Not all printers are available when running 2Printer through a Windows service
- "Unsupported files" error when importing files
- Avoid out-of-order printing with no way to use Single print job mode
- How to print XML and HTML as source code
- Use stapling or other printer finishing options
- Virtual printing (Print to File) doesn't work
- Disable checking for updates
- Some characters are missing or look distorted after printing
- How to remove unwanted watermarks at the bottom of document pages
- I'm working with very large raster images (TIFF, PNG, JPG), but they either fail to process or take an excessively long time. How can I fix this?
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