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
Print Conductor Interface
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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
Page Printing Settings
- Set paper size
- Set color mode
- Set color mode for selected pages
- Set page auto-rotation
- Set page orientation
- Set printing as image
- Set rasterization resolution
- Set page scaling
- Adjust page alignment & offset
- Change printer resolution
- Vectorize text before printing
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Printing on multiple printers & load balancing
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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
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Post-processing actions
Print Conductor & other software
Batch printing various file types
How to Print Multiple PDF Files at Once
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
- "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
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