Five days to go before the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway ends. We have given away lots of licenses to many popular software programs and today’s program is no exception to that rule. FinePrint is a printing software that can be used to manage print jobs before they are send to an actual printer on the computer system. It is basically a tool to reduce paper and ink usage on a computer system without reducing the quality of the prints.
If you regularly print out websites or documents you must have noticed that they do not fit perfectly on paper all the time. Websites are usually to large to fit correctly on paper which will move some elements – usually those on the right side that do not fit on the print – to a second paper. This could leave you with menus that will be printed on their own paper, something that is not normally needed at all.
FinePrint offers ways to deal with those pages and a few additional features that make it an interesting software for everyone who prints out those documents regularly.
Installation of FinePrint should go through without problems. It adds itself as a virtual printer to the computer system suggesting to the user that it should be set as the default printer on the system. Either way print jobs can then be send to the software application where they will be listed in the main interface.
You can send multiple print jobs to FinePrint and the software will display them all in its interface. One of the major features of the software is to remove pages that are not needed in the printout. You can flip through the pages and zoom in on them to find out if a page is needed or not. Pages that are not needed can be removed easily with the click of the button.
FinePrint will display the paper savings in the status bar which should give you an indication of its effectiveness.
Removing papers from a print job is one thing, combining pages on one paper is another. The printing software can print 1,2,4 or 8 sheets of the print job on a single sheet. It can also print them double-sided if the printer is supporting that feature. Printing 8 pages on one sheet is good for eagle-eye users or archiving purposes.
Additional options are available to save computer ink. Graphics can be removed from the printouts and the quality can be set to grayscale to use only black ink when printing. You can define borders, margins and bindings and also add stamps (confidential, proof, internal use etc) to the papers.
If the document is ready for printing you can simply send it to one of the connected printers by pressing the printer button in the FinePrint interface.
The only thing that is missing is the ability to remove or move objects on a page as well. Other than that is is a great application to save paper. Could be very handy in office or for users who regularly print out websites and other documents.
We are giving away five FinePrint licenses to lucky readers. If you want to win a copy leave a comment and tell us how many trees you would save with this software ;)
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Wow Martin, you certainly have nailed the cream of the shareware crop on your giveaway.
While fineprint is fantastic and a huge paper / ink saver for its n-up and graphic removal abilities, I think the most overlooked feature is it’s ability to preview a job on screen before you send it to the printer.
How many times have you printed a web page or email that has spanned three pages, when the relevant data is only on the first page? FinePrint shows you the print job, and easily allows you to delete individual pages before submitting it to the printer.
For those that don’t win, I highly recommend this program!
Count me in!
My father prints a lot, this would surely help saving some trees.
Hi,
I am desperately looking for something likethis since InkSaver publisher seems to have gone belly up.
Then how many trees ? I’d say I hope to reduce by 25% my paper usage.
Thanks !
Now this I could really use. Send it to me ASAP.
I have a lot of prints, so this software will make me reducing the costs.
looks like a great program. Save tons of paper.
Sounds tempting. Less Paper, less toner, less storage. Why didn’t I came across this earlier? I wouldn’t only save trees for the paper but also for the shelves I store it in. Might be a small forest ;-)
The giveaways just keep getting better. Sign me up!
I would love to have this software. Thanks.
It could be very useful for me!
Thanks!
a very green present, may i be so bold to ask for 1?
It is very useful
I have used an earlier version of this program. It prooved to be so handy in several occasions. For instance saving a print when working on a computer with no printer connected to print it on another computer. Also printing a booklet was sometimes very neat. And of course, I have saved dozens of trees, because i was able to see if the print output was ok before sending it to the printer.
I would love a copy of this program.
I never win at these advent comps, but hey, let’s throw my name in the hat for this one!
Beam me up!
Very nice piece of software. I could save a least one tree! :)
great way to go green!
Wow – I so badly need this! I would save a LOT of trees (and a lot of money from going into the swear box!) ;)
We are printing out a lot so would make a good use of this programme!
At the moment I use PDFcreator to archiv all my documents, but Fineprint has more options and better quality.
I think I would save at least one or two trees.
So it would be great to win one license.
I would save a lot of trees because prviewing would make me choose not to print a lot of crap ;-)
Sounds great. I’d like to enter my name for this one.
Count me in, please. Hope I’m lucky this time …
Hi Martin, this is definately very nice software, i used it once when i had to submit a 200 page project report, and it definately saved ink, I have a hp inkjet 3900 printer, and combining this software with the hp’s software gave me great results! Thanks for this giveaway :-)
I’m in.
Count me in – but I’ve not read the fine print
cool program, nice, i try again …
CU CU
Thx – put me in. Trying to save a lot of trees ;o)