A Fine Way to Print

I was recently introduced to a fantastic piece of software that I now use every day.  The application is called FinePrint and it works its magic by installing as a virtual printer.  You then set this as your default printer and print to it from all of your applications as normal.  However, instead of the print job going straight to the printer you are presented with a preview window showing the print job.  From this preview you are then able to:

• Save paper by deleting unwanted pages or scaling down the size to fit two or more pages on a single printed sheet
• Save ink by removing graphics or converting from colour to grayscale
• Print double sided jobs (even without a duplex printer) and create booklets
• Add an electronic letterhead or stamp pages with draft, confidential or any other watermark that you choose

Once you’ve made the necessary adjustments you simply click once to output to your selected printer.  If this wasn’t enough, print jobs are automatically archived allowing you the ability to quickly reprint if necessary without going back to the original document.  This is particularly useful for web printouts.

The standard version of the software is $49 per licence which seems pretty good value.  There is a server based version and the optional pdfFactory software adds some excellent PDF creation features.

Click here to see more information on the FinePrint website where a free trial version is available for download.