FinePrint Driver

FINE-MAIN   The FinePrint Driver has just undergone a hefty upgrade and, if you weren't tempted to try it out before, you certainly should now!
   For those familiar with this excellent program, you will immediately see an addition to the main screen, which shows a "booklet" option. Yes, FinePrint Driver now does bookets, too.
   To my mind, the new version also makes it easier to choose what FinePrint calls "stationery," the special setups for the printing it does. The options in this area have been improved as well, as the illustration of the stationery screen below illustrates.
   FintPrint Driver was part of my stable of programs I use with regularity before the upgrade. Now that there is a newer version with more flexibility, the worth of this excellent program is enhanced even more. FINE-STATIONARY

 

 

 

THE FULL TEXT OF OUR EARLIER REVIEW APPEARS BELOW:

   I have been using ClickBook for quite some time to reduce the size of pages on my printer, and, honestly, if you want to print a booklet or some such, ClickBook is a must. However, what you want to print in a reduced fashion something simply – like short documentation – ClickBook is can be more trouble than it is worth.
   This is especially true for Web pages and the aforementioned short documentation: Read Me files and the like.
   Enter the FinePrint Driver, which makes saving trees so simple (and reducing paper clutter at the same time), that it really is a must-have for anyone who prints almost anything.
   The process couldn't be simpler. Just install the FinePrint Driver like any other printer. When you want to print something 2-up, 4-up or 8-up on a single sheet of paper, just choose that driver from the Properties pulldown in your printing dialog. Press OK, and a screen like the one to the left pops up, allowing you to choose some options. Once you've done that, press OK and, viola, your pages are printed out in reduced format.
   I can tell you these reduced pages are easy to read. While there are three or four shareware programs out there which do something like the same thing, the FinePrint Driver is by far the easiest to read. No comparison. Even at 8-up, this program performs just like you want it to.
   Another excellent feature of the program is its stationery option, which lets you choose headers, footers and watermarks for your pages. It also allows you to determine whether you want the reduced pages to print across or up and down. I prefer across. It can also print page borders.
   But where the FinePrint Driver really shines is in printing pages from the Web. When I go into the Web, I set the FinePrint Driver as my default printer and turn off the option to ask me how to configure FinePrint. It zaps those Web pages out on my Epson Stylus Color 800 at 1400 dpi in full color, including the graphics. Nice? Absolutely.
   The FinePrint Driver is really a must if you have a printer. For example, the program's ReadMe file is five pages long. Printing that file out through the FinePrint Driver takes, exactly, one page of paper.

   Link to FinePrint's Web Page
 


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