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Printing PDF files in numerical order

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by ro777 1 view

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Hello,

My question is regarding printing of batch pdf files in sorted order. So far we've tried by selecting multiple pdf files from Windows Explorer & Right Click-->Print. This prints all the files but not in their numerical order. Example, if I had 10 pdf files named 01.pdf, 02.pdf, 03.pdf, etc, I would like them to be printed in consecutive numerical order. Sometimes there are 150 of these files & that's where it would be very useful. Files vary in size, so some might be 9kb & some 500kb. We are using Windows XP Pro & LAN printers HP 4050 with PCL6 drivers. We would really appreciate it if there was a way to automate this process. We have also tried a pdf batch print utility but it doesn't work too well. Any help would be great & let me know if you need more info.

Thanks.

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by house

Right click your printer and go to properties. There should be an advanced tab...try either printing "directly to printer" by disabling the spooling, or do not "do print until last page is spooled".

Keep in mind that if one of these solutions work, you can install two printers on your OS which are the same physical device, just with different settings.

by ben_kent_uk

Go to start / settings /printers
Right click the printer in question
goto advanced
uncheck the "print spooled documents first"

This has solved a very similar problem with the same printer for me before. Bascially it is finishing spooling the smaller PDF files first and so printing them first. Diabling the above should correct this.

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