Reviews

Gordon S. – If you don’t know that FinePrint and its companion pdfFactory Pro are programs that you cannot do without, that can only be because you’re not using them. I’ve been using them both for much longer than I can recall and, intermittently, have tried every printing program that’s available and more print-to-pdf programs than I can remember, and none of them comes even close to this superb pair.

Unlike many programs, the FinePrint family actually delivers everything it promises: the program are fast, they are efficient, they are easy to use, they save untold thousands of sheets of paper, they permit editing (which is a wondrous feature), and can print double-sided even if your printer can’t.

And the help and assistance are as good as it gets. Old timers might remember the wonderful, industry-standard-setting help from WordPerfect back in the DOS days when it was in Orem, Utah. Well, FinePrint’s help is that good!

In the words of a long-time-ago television commercial for a breakfast cereal, “Try it. You’ll like it!” And this time, it’s true!

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Craig R. – Both FinePrint and pdfFactory Pro have had a tremendous effect on my workflow since I first discovered the applications back in their version 1 iterations. As a systems engineer working in the both the aerospace and data communications industries, I must create and assemble a multitude of different and complex document and image types into a cohesive, easily navigable document for delivery to a client or other engineers. Your applications enable me to accomplish this task quickly and efficiently while giving me the opportunity to both view and adjust my final document BEFORE wasting paper and expensive toner for hardcopy printouts (HP removed their print preview feature from all their drivers. Xerox seems to be following suit with their universal PCL drivers. Only Epson print drivers have a decent print preview anymore – at least in my experience). The drag-and-drop document ordering, page editing and markup, job renaming, letterhead and watermarking features, and the ability to create multiple specialized FinePrint and pdfFactory printers for specific job outputs have been equally important in the creation of digital master documents that serve as the hardcopy source file.

I can’t tell you how many emails I have sent to clients, colleagues, friends, and family with links to the FinePrint website extolling the benefits of your software and how quickly the software cost(s) is recouped in time saved, frustration avoided, and toner/ink waste avoided. Heck, just a single instance of FinePrint’s basic print preview/document handling features keeping me from smashing my HP LaserJet to bits with a sledgehammer paid for both FinePrint AND pdfFactory Pro!

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Walt W. – I’ve used FinePrint and pdfFactoryPro for probably 15 years. The software is indispensable. I can view and customize every print job before it’s sent to the physical printer or saved to pdf. It gives me full control over how documents and presentations are combined, organized, paginated, timestamped, and more. Not only that, it saves paper and ink, is easy-to-use, and helps make final documents look professional. Colleagues to whom I’ve introduced the software are thrilled too. Thank you for these wonderful tools

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Jeff S. – I have been a user of FinePrint and pdfFactory Pro for close to 15 years.  My background is in IT, systems administration, and enterprise management, which I’ve been doing for close to 30 years, and I can honestly say that few technology products rise to the same level of ingenuity, quality, and elegance as FinePrint and pdfFactory.  As many users, I started with FinePrint to save on paper and with pdfFactory Pro for its one-click conversion to PDF.  However, over time, I have come to rely on other features of the programs.  Auto-save in both programs have bailed me on more occasions than I am willing to admit, when the original documents were lost or corrupted.  When the world was struggling to convert from 4×3 to 16×9 slides in PowerPoint, especially when the slides needed to be converted to PDF, pdfFactory Pro’s ability to retain the wide formatting with just a few clicks made me a hero at work more than once.  When needing to print just a section of a page or to remove unnecessary graphics to save ink, FinePrint’s Edit function does a superb job without having to modify the original source.  I could go on and on, but here’s the simple fact: I am a FinePrint/pdfFactory Pro addict, and here is a fair warning to anyone who wants to try the software: you will wonder how you ever lived without it!  🙂

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Richard F. – Just for the record, I love pdfFactory Pro. I’ve been trying to convince my company that reports they assemble by printing, collating, then scanning, would be so much easier to produce and would look tons better too, if they’d just try pdfFactory Pro. They’ve bought a couple of other products to do the same thing, but they’ve been so awkward and irritating to work with that the rest of the crew is back at the scanner in a couple of days. Wish they would just listen to me.

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Edward D. – Thank You! I do want to tell you that this is one of the greatest programs I have bought. I love it, use it all the time and I am forever pleased with the results and saving that I have got from it. I have told all of my family and friends about it in hopes that they would try it. Keep up the good work.

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Bob G. – Please know that  FinePrint, in my opinion, is as close to perfect as any program I have purchased and is so very, very useful. Thank you for producing this brilliant product – and for FineTuning it!

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Lee A. – I’m a composer and music publisher, and have more than a dozen different FP printers defined to handle all sizes and configurations of the music I print to 2 large format laser printers (one of which has auto duplexing) and a large format color inkjet.  For example, I may have an original 11×14 score which gets printed as 11×14 duplex, scaled to letter duplex, or scaled to letter duplex and printed as a booklet on 11×17, among other possibilities.  Having printers defined for each variation of my printing needs saves an enormous amount of setup time and reduces errors when I get a print-on-demand order.  I’ve recommended FP numerous times over the years to my composer colleagues.

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Todd S. – I’ve been using FinePrint and pdfFactory for over 15 years (since 2003).  FinePrint has been my go-to program for printing Large page files into smaller paper backups.  pdfFactory is a must for anyone who wants to send a PDF invoice to a customer and or other documents.  I print all my purchase receipts made online with pdfFactory so I can always pull up an instant copy if the need arises without searching the inbox.  Retaining an electronic PDF hardcopy backup is a must and this is the ONLY program I recommend.  Great Prices for great products.  Thanks so much.

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John P. – May I take this moment to thank all of you at Fineprint for such a great product. I’ve been using various versions for well over a decade, must be getting close to 20 years perhaps? I can’t remember exactly but we were printing on dot matrix printers at the time and your software incorporated features such as poster printing and booklet printing that have only recently crept into the mainstream applications and printer interfaces. In all this time, the programs installed reliably, I ported them to new machines without a problem, and they ran with barely an impact on my systems accommodating numerous operating system and software upgrades with no issues and continuously producing reliable results every time.

I think it is a tribute to the reliability and design of your software that this is the first time that I can remember that I had to contact you for help and you responded within the hour. Truly remarkable.