Printing Tools

Nico`s Photocopier enables you to use your scanner as a one-step copy machine. Just insert the document, open Photocopier and click a button. You can choose between color, grey scale or black and white print and also reduce the print output to 70 per cent. The program will automatically detect your scanner and default printer, no further configurations are necessary. A Pro version with additional features is also offered by the author.

Printable Notebook lets you organize and print your personal data in the same manner a paper notebook does. You can print (and cut) selected pages so that they fit into your paper notebook. The program allows you to create multiple notebooks with custom fields for each. It includes several sample print templates, that will fit a standard notebook size. The templates are XML based and can be edited by experienced users to accommodate other formats. Printable Notebook supports website links and email fields, different tab layouts, search across notebooks and more.

TKexe Kalender enables you to create printable calendar pages from your personal photos or designs. You can add up to 20 images to each monthly display and customize the page layout via drag and drop of elements. The design can be applied individually to each page or the entire year. Other features include support for personal events, public holidays (10 countries), image effects, gradients and more. The interface and workflow are a little rough and appear to be in early stages, but with some dedication, the program lets you create some nice looking calendars.

Invocator is a simple invoicing tool that can help you create an invoice with your company logo and itemized listing of goods or services sold. It provides a simple interface that lets you add items and descriptions and will calculate the total for you, including a custom tax rate. The program automatically adds an incrementing number to your invoice using a custom invoice number to start with. Invocator is easy to use but very basic in features, it does not allow editing or preview of the invoice, and if you do not print the invoice for some reason, you will have to start over and reset your invoice numbers. It is also unable to store customer data. While certainly not suitable for serious business use, Invocator can be quite helpful if you just want to create an occasional invoice.

PaperCut Print Logger is a simple monitoring solution that enables you to keep track of all print jobs that are performed on a standalone or shared printer. It keeps daily logs that contain the name of the document, the user name, number of pages printed and other details such as paper size, color mode and more. The program does not offer nor require any configuration, it starts logging automatically after installation and the logs can be viewed in HTML format from your browser via the provided shortcut link, and also exported to .csv format.

Graph Paper Printer enables you to print a variety of blank graph papers, including music manuscripts, Cartesian paper, Mercator paper, polar paper, dot paper, hexagon patterns, Axonometric paper and others. You can customize the paper details, specify (multiple) line colors, widths and page margins.

DVDCover+ is a simple utility to print CD and DVD covers, using a variety of standard sizes. It supports single, double and tripple cover formats with single or multiple images. The program can stretch or size the image to fit the cover, and you can manually adjust the image size and place it within the cover area. You can also add vertical or horizontal text with customizable font and color choices. The program provides a serial number during the install that you can use to fully activate the software (apparently it used to be shareware at some point). DVDCover+ will promote other products by the same company via popup window whenever you close the program.

PrintFile is a poweruser tool, that enables you to print files by simply dragging them onto the interface. It also supports n-up printing, which allows you to print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper. PrintFile can also act as a print spooler, watching a specified directory for files. Whenever a file appears in that directory it will automatically be printed. The program includes many other advanced options and recognizes plain text, PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and binary formats as well as PostScript and EPS files created on Macintosh and UNIX systems. The program is intended for advanced users.

Karen`s Print Logger enables you to log all print jobs that are sent to local or remote network printers. It displays general statistic per printer, and also maintains a detailed log file with name of the documents, user, time, pages and more. Just select the printers to monitor, and (optionally) keep the program available as tray icon for quick reference.

The Rasterbator enables to create large rasterized posters from your digital images, using a regular size printer. Unlike other programs that try to produce a high quality enlargement, this program creates images made up of visible dots (rasterized), which are designed to appear smooth from a distance (but may not look as great from up-close). This technique allows you to create very large posters, even from lower resolution images. The Rasterbator supports standard paper sizes, as well as custom dimension, and you can adjust the size of the dots to accommodate the desired poster size. The program can create monochrome or multicolor posters and save them as multi-page PDF file, which you can then print and assemble with glue and scissors.

PosteRazor enables you to create posters from your high resolution images that can be printed on any standard size printer. It takes your original images and splits it into portions that fit the paper size you selected (A4,A3, Legal, Letter, Tabloid or custom sizes) and enlarges the image to the selected proportions. You can create regular poster sizes, or even wall posters, provided you have a high resolution image. All you have to do is increase the dimensions by the number of pages you want to use and the program will do the rest. The resulting poster is saved as multi-page PDF file and can then be printed by any standard printer and then assembled into a poster using scissors and glue (not included).

CdCoverCreator enables you to create and print your own CD covers for Audio and Data CDs. You can create your covers, inlays, labels, and even booklets. The program can download the original cover art from the Internet for many CDs, or you can design your own covers from scratch. CdCoverCreator can gather track names and artist information via CDDB and automatically populate the cover details with song titles, track length etc. Easy to use and produces great results.

CalendarPainter is a tool to create personal picture calendars from your photos or images. You can specify a picture for every month and customize the color for the calendar frames. CalendarPainter can produce pages with 1, 3 or 12 months per page and the design can be saved for reuse later. In addition, you can add birthdays and holidays before printing and customize several other aspects of the calendar. The quality of the resized pictures on the multi-month pages is not very good (distorted), but other than that it creates decent output, considering that it is free.

PrintFolder is a small utility that allows you to print the content of a folder with optional subfolders. You can choose to include the date, size and time properties and also set the print margins and font size. The list can then be printed out or saved as text file. PrintFolder integrates into Windows Explorer and is available from the right-click menu of any folder.

CoverCreator provides a quick and easy way to way to print plain text CD jewel case inserts. The program can also automatically create jewel case inserts from any of your batch scripts. You can automatically insert the current date on the label and save the layout for later use. CoverCreator is not intended to create flashy picture labels, but rather to organize a large collection of company or personal records with standard, plain text CD covers.

Miraplacid Form lets you fill out and print scanned paper forms or forms in read-only documents like PDF files, Word documents etc. The program cannot use input directly from the scanner, so you`ll need to save the scanned form as an image and then load it into Miraplacid Form. Once that is accomplished, the program is easy to use and lets you fill in fields by simply dragging areas with your mouse. Once you have defined the input areas, you can launch the form in the built-in viewer, fill it and print. The layout can be saved, so you can quickly fill the same form the next time without having to define the input areas again. Very useful for frequently used forms.

iCarbon (formerly iCopy) allows you to combine your scanner and printer into a one-click copy machine. It works with any TWAIN-compatible scanner and automatically starts printing after your document has been successfully acquired. Configuration options include the paper size, color type and quality settings. All you need to do is press the big blue button.

Log Paper is a small tool to create and print paper for diagram drawings. Features include support for mm or inch or any other size grid, Linear, semi or double logarithmic grid with user defined number of decades as well as optional page headers.

Quick Copy 2 Printer is a tool to simplify the copying of a document from you scanner to your printer. There is no need to load your graphics program, or to resize and stretch your scan to a paper format. Just a click on the button and your copy comes out of your printer. It s as simple as that. The program also offers some additional features that allow you to specify the number of copies to be printed, the scale and access to printer and scanner dialogs.

JR Directory Printer is a small utility that allows you to print a listing of every folder with optional subfolders and/or files contained within a directory. It supports lowercase/dos style filename, file size in KB/bytes, attributes and custom file length. The report is generated in txt format and can be printed on your default printer.