Learn how to install, activate, set up, and use Print Conductor. You can batch print all your PDF, Excel, Word documents, and images most effectively. Besides, here you'll find many other tips on settings and features available in the program: PDF printing, importing and exporting lists, double-sided printing (duplex mode), auto tray selection, and more. These how-to guides will help you improve the printing processes in your office or home environment.
Installation & activation
Configuring the print settings
Document Printing Settings
- Set page range
- Set duplex mode (two-sided printing)
- Select printer tray (paper source)
- Set paper source for selected pages
- Add the same files to the List more than once
- Print the entire List of Documents more than once
- 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 Manage Printer Properties in Print Conductor
Using the List of Documents
How to Load a List of Files for Printing
How to Configure the List of Documents for Printing
Printing all files as a single print job
How to Print in Single Print Job Mode
- Single print job mode: ensure printing of documents in the order you’ve set
- Single print job name
- Use different input printer trays in Single print job mode
- Merge files into a PDF via Single print job mode & virtual printer
- Single print job + Duplex mode:
- Can't use Single print job mode? 'Wait until printer queue is empty' – alternative method to maintain a strict printing order
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:
- Set Text watermark parameters
- Add page numbers
- Place custom watermark on page center
- Add filename to header or footer
- Set colored background for watermark
- Use item's index number as a text watermark
- Insert multi-line text watermark
- Add sequence numbers to PDF pages
- 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
Post-processing actions
Print Conductor & other software
Batch printing various file types
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 how to print Outlook emails with Print Conductor
- What email message files can be printed with Print Conductor
- Print emails from Outlook in Print Conductor
- How to print attachments before or after the document
- Print a cover page between email message body and attachments
- Sort attachments before printing
- How to handle attachments of unknown type
- Ensure that a file and its attachment are printed in one job
- Use include/exclude mask to filter attachments
- Change page size when printing email message files
- Sort files by email delivery time before printing
- 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
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
- "Unsupported file type" error
- "Empty range" 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
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