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FREE Printing Utilities! (# 2)

Below are some more very useful and completely Free printing utilities and resources related to printers and printing. We galdly pass them along to you! We will add to these printer utilities as we find new ones. Enjoy and Please Come Back!

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FancyFax allows you to create fancy fax cover sheets which can be printed and used with any standalone fax machine. If you have a faxmodem installed in your computer you can fax single page sheets directly from the program. It features: 6 amusing images to dress up your cover sheet (or you can add your own colorful BMP image); a choice of any font or size, etc.; your message can be up to 5,000 characters (over 60 lines of normal-sized text); and more! In many cases you only need to send the single sheet and you can compose and send your fax from within this program. (it lacks a preview mode but we just printed out the cover sheet until we had it just right). The program is freeware and requires free registration. Scroll down the page to find FancyFax (alphabetical listings). The registration code: D4059068101, which is also mentioned in the included 'helpfile'. size:119K

pdfFactory - The first PDF creation tool designed for non-expert users. With pdfFactory, anyone can create PDF documents that can be published on web sites, emailed or archived. pdfFactory supports all international languages including symbolic fonts, Asian and Central European fonts. Among its features: automatically combines multiple documents into a single PDF, page insert/delete, send as email. You may download a trial version of pdfFactory. ** The trial version does not have a time limit but prints an advertisement at the bottom of each sheet. When the program is purchased, the advertisement and the page limitation will be removed.

FTPrint (Fast Text Print) allows you to print text files under Windows 95/98/NT/2000 in a printer's text mode. Usually, when printing text files under Windows, the printer operate in a graphics mode. For dotmatrix and inkjet printers text mode printing is faster than graphics and more economical. Save Time and Money! If your printer is dotmatrix or inkjet and your text doesn't contain complex formatting (source code, documentation, logs, books, etc), print it with FTPrint. But FTPrint divides text into pages for your convenience and also you can use different printer's fonts and styles (bold, condensed, canvas, quality, etc.) Note: The free trial is fully functional but prints a small header line ad for the program.

Reform (FreeWare 8.0) -- Never pay for pre-printed business forms again.... Replace your pre- printed forms, convert your ordinary looking forms to graphically enriched ones! Reform is a form printing engine for all accounting & form systems. This free version is limited but still has great features.

DoublePage -- A Free Microsoft Word 6.0/7.0/97/2000 Printer Add-On That Prints Documents In A 2- Column Landscape Format With About 1 Page Per Column. It Supports Simple Or More Complex Documents. An Easy Way To Cut Down On Paper Costs And Help Save A Tree! What Sets It Apart From Similar Tools: The Ability To Handle Frames, Footnotes, And Tables. Some Foreign Language Are Supported.

Capture Express -- This Is A Very Coolscreen Capture Utility That Lets You Capture Areas Of The Screen In A Variety Of Shapes. Once Capture Express Is Launched, It Remains Hidden Until Activated With The Press Of A Hot Key. Use It To Capture: The Whole Screen, A Window, A Window Client Area, Or An Area In A Specific Shape (Such As A Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Square, Rounded Square, Ellipse, Circle, Triangle, Diamond, Star Or Polygon. You Can Add Colored Borders To The Shapes, And Select A Masking Color To Go Around The Shapes. You Can Capture, Load, Edit, And Save Screen Shots In A Variety Of Image File Formats, Including BMP, JPG and GIF. ** While Capturing An Area, You Can Stretch And Move The Grabber Tool Using The Mouse. You Can Also Print Screen Shots, Copy Them To The Clipboard, Or Send Them To Others Via E-Mail. This Latest Version Includes An Option To Print the Image From 100% To 900% Of The Original Image Size.

InkMonitor/HPMonitor v1.2 -- This Is A Useful And Free Program For Ink Printers (Designed Especially For Hewlett-Packard Models, But Will Work With Any Other Type, Such As Canon, Epson, Etc.). It Allows You To Track The Amount Of The Ink In Your Printer Cartridge According To The Number Of Already Printed Pages. This Version Has An Updated Algorithm For Calculating The Amount Of The Ink In The Cartridge For Even Better Results. Select The Type Of Ink Cartridge You Use And Then Enter The Amount Of Previously- Printed Pages. This Program Knows How Many More Pages You Can Print, According To The Selected Cartridge. It Will Display The Amount Of Ink Left In The Cartridge. The Program Can Be Also Be Used For Tracking The Amount Of Printed Pages By Days. When You Print A Paper, Enter The Number Of Printed Pages Into The Appropriate Field.

ADG Panorama Tools 4.0 -- If you like to experiment with your digital pictures, Panorama Tools allows you to turn a series of digital photographs into a 360-degree panorama. The program is free for non-commercial use, aligns your images automatically, and warps them for the 360-degree format. When you're done, you can publish your creations on the Web.

UnderCoverXP is a free program you can use to easily print CD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front and inside, inlays, DVD boxes, Playstation covers, and CoolBela LD001 labels to the correct sizes. Other label types can be added via a configuration file. The program is easy to use and uses a visual display to show the selected images as they will appear on your cover. UnderCoverXP runs on any Windows 95,98,ME, NT4, 2000 and XP system and can be used with all laser and inktjet printers.

SenLab v.1 - Quick easy address label printing. No bells and whistles - just does the business. This is not your latest super fandango all bells and whistles software. IT IS: Simple robust software to print labels. Compatible with Windows 95 upwards.

Easy JPEG Printer An excellent freeware tool for printing photos. If you have a digital camera, you probably have discovered that special print paper is very expensive. You also may have discovered that those sophisticated graphics programs don't make it easy to print snapshots from digital images. This program makes it simple to print 4" x 6" or 3" x 5" pictures on one sheet of paper. Lots of very nice additional features!

printQuick.com -- Create And Print Greeting Cards, Certificates, And Calendars Right From Your Color Inkjet Printer. Simply Select An Image From Their Regularly Updated Art Galleries, Then Add Your Message, And Print...It's That Easy. And, Best Of All...It's Free. This Is Not Clip Art. The Images Here Rival Or Surpass What Can Be Found On Products You'd Get From A Store Or Print Shop. (They Have A Patent-Pending Technology That Transfers The Best Of An On-Screen Image-Color And Exact Resolution - From The Internet To A Color Printer Through A Small Downloadable Plug-In.

StupidFax -- (Not!) This Free Program Works With Fax Modems To Automatically Print And Save Incoming Fax Calls. Incoming Faxes Are Routed And Printed to The Windows Default Printer. Incoming Faxes Are Logged With The Time, Date And Status Info. All Printed Files Are Logged With The Time, Date And Print Status Info. New Features. View A Fax On-Screen, All Configuration Parameters Saved, AutoPrint May Be Turned Off, Main Status Log Automatically Saved. Very Handy!

Iomega Photo Printer Software -- Sort, size, and print digital images with Iomega Photo Printer. Works with or without Iomega devices! Free! Try it now. Thanks to Dan Butler - The Naked PC

Form Pilot -- Do ya have a typewriter? I don't either but with this cool freebie, you don't need one! Form Pilot is specially designed for filling in paper forms (of any type) on your computer. It makes typewriters obsolete! Here's how it works: First, scan your paper form.... then open the form image in Form Pilot. Fill in the form on the screen and print it out. Now your form is ready to file or mail out! Note: free trial version prints out a small header and/or footer ad for the software.

CintiSoft Default Printer Changer -This simple utility allows you to change the default printer with a click of a button. A notify icon will be displayed next to Windows Time. Right click on the icon (P) and select the printer.

WPrinter Lite - A handy, freeware system tray-based utility that lets you change your Windows 95/98 default printer with only two mouse clicks. Double-click on its icon to see the Printer Properties dialog, which allows to set printer orientation, paper size, and more. Move your mouse pointer over its icon and hold it for a second to see a tooltip pop up with the current printer's name. If you have more than one printer or are using a fax/modem, WPrinter Lite will make a great addition to your system tray.

PrintKey 2000 is an excellent Screen Shot manager! It is activated when you press the PrintScreen Key and allows you to capture the entire screen or any portion of it. You can then make changes to the screen capture and save in a variety of formats including .gif, .bmp, .jpeg, .jpg, .emf and .wmf. You can also swap colors, convert to grayscale or black and white, change picture size and send to the printer all from this little freeware program.

Hardcopy -- A system-tray-based tool that offers a quick and easy way to print the contents of your screen while in Windows. To send the contents of the entire screen to your printer, just click its icon or press your Print Screen key. If you want to print just the active window, press the Print Screen key while holding down the Alt key. You can also use your mouse to capture individual window components such as toolbars and buttons or cut out sections of the screen. In addition to printing, you can save captures in a wide variety of raster formats. Hardcopy offers an impressive set of image editing functions such as color and gray-scale conversion; several filters; and zoom, rotation, and flip tools. Other cool features let you insert cursors into screen shots after they've been captured; automatically save captures; and customize the toolbar, pull-down menus, and hotkeys.

Need A Disposable (Printable) Ruler? - There have been so many times that I'm scrambling around to find a ruler to measure something and I just can't seem to find one. I discovered a while back that if you go to this site you can get an "actual size" printable ruler (lots of them, in fact)! Very handy if you don't feel like rootin' in the toolbox or junk drawer for the tape measure. So, go to this site for some rulers you can print.

BubbleShare - For people who just want to create albums and share them quickly! For one thing, this service doesn't require you to create an account or go through any of the stuff that is involved with becoming a new user. From the front page of the Web site you automatically jump into creating an album. You just title it, upload the photos, and then share it with whomever you wish, including the visitors of your blog.

It doesn't cost you any money to create an album, and you can create as many as you want. Creating a basic album is easy enough, there are a couple of extra features that enhance the service. For example, you can add both text and audio comments to your pictures just in case you don't feel that they completely speak for themselves. Visitors can also comment on what they see and hear. In my opinion, the ability to talk to your album viewers about your photos is one of the main things that makes BubbleShare so attractive.

BullZip PDF Printer - is a virtual printer driver that enables you to convert any printable document or image to PDF format. It works with all applications that offer a Print option, simply select the newly added BullZip PDF Printer instead of your regular printer and the document will be converted and saved as a PDF file. BullZip PDF Printer does not add any text or watermarks to your document. * Requires GPL Ghostscript 8.15, also available at this site.

FastStone Photo Resizer 2.2 - An image converter/resizer intended to enable users (especially digital camera owners) to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermark to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag & Drop is well supported.

PDF Redirect - Turn Photos Into Adobe PDFs! You probably know that Adobe's Portable Document Format is a nearly universal way to share all kinds ofdocuments. Why? Mainly because PDF is convenient; you can transform text documents, presentations, business graphics, brochures, and all kinds of other documents into a common format that anyone with Adobe Reader can view. So the question is "Can I create a PDF with my digital photos?"

You can create a PDF with photos, captions, and any other elements you like. All you need is PDF Redirect, which lets you create a PDF file just by clicking the Print button in any Windows program - Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, your favorite image editor, and more. It's really that simple, and the end result looks and works like any PDF file created by Adobe's own software. PDF Redirect is available at no cost... no restrictions, no watermarks, no spyware, no adware and no pop-up advertisements. (a more elaborate version, PDF Redirect Pro, costs $20).

PhotoPlus6 - This is a pretty well equipped and user friendly photo editing software with all the features normally reserved for high-end and high-priced applications. Learn and apply professional image editing techniques and create incredible images for print, multimedia and the web. In addition, you can easily edit or create animated GIFs for use on the Internet or in presentations.

Photo Resize Magic - Are you looking for a quick way to reduce the size of your digital pictures so you can send them by e-mail? "This no-cost software allows you to resize and convert your digital photos. You can convert your large "print quality" photos to compact "screen size". Then you can send these compact photos to your friends by e-mail, upload to a web site etc."

Automatic Image Resizing With Shrink Pic - This program can automatically resize images that you are sending by email, instant message or upload via your browser to your blog account. The program resizes the images on-the-fly, so there is no additional dialog or interface to deal with. The program will automatically detect whenever you attach images to an email, IM or upload them from your web browser and will replace them with resized copies - your original images are NOT modified. You can choose between 3 compression profiles and also choose to temporarily disable the resizing engine, in case you need to send or upload full-sized images. Shrink Pic also works with webmail and will resize any images that are sent via Gmail, Hotmail or any other accounts. If you are looking for convenient way to resize images that you are sharing with your friends or family, it doesn`t get any easier than Shrink Pic.

ScrapbookFlair - ScrapbookFlair is a digital scrapbooking software that enables you to assemble unique album pages complete with backgrounds, embellishments, image frames, masks, annotations, text balloons and more. It supports different page sizes and includes templates for various design ideas that you can use and customize. Designing the scrapbook pages is about as easy as it gets, just select the images to include and drag them into position to arrange them on the page. The program also includes a basic image editor that lets you crop, rotate and adjust image contrast and exposure and also remove red-eye effects. You can create single page or multi-page scrapbooks and either print the pages or export them to high quality JPG files, generate HTML album pages or share them online via the Srapbook Flair community.

iResize - This handy little program can instantly resize a number of images into a different resolution. However it does much more than that. Using its straightforward interface you can also save the resulting images into different image formats (Jpeg, Bmp, Tiff, Png and Gif). When taking photos off your digital camera, you can just select the photos you want to resize down, choose the resolution to shrink them to and your job is done.

Easily Create Panoramic Scenes - Want to take a picture of the Grand Canyon, soccer field or a city street? You don't have to take a bunch of pictures and then spend hours on your computer putting them all together to make one great masterpeice. I've found software to help whether you use Windows or a Mac.

AutoStitch for Windows - This is a simple, powerful digital photography tool. It makes a panoramic scene out of a mix of overlapping photos. AutoStitch puts the photos together and eliminates the redundant, overlapped portions of the scene. The individual photo borders are smoothed out until you've got one giant scene. The program comes with a sample set of photos with which to experiment. To use AutoStitch, you'll have to select the whole set of photos. AutoStitch opens them simultaneously and puts them together. It automatically saves the finished photo. It even opens your picture viewer to show you the result.

Hugin for Macs - Hugin is a handy digital photography tool for your Mac. It assembles a panoramic scene from a mix of overlapping photos. It puts the photos together and eliminates redundant, overlapped parts of the scene. Then each photo's border is smoothed away until only one giant scene is left. Hugin does a pretty great job, but it needs a bit of assistance. You'll select control points for each of your photos. Those are points that overlap with one or more of the other photos. Hugin uses them to put the photos together and smooth it over.

Foxit Reader - Easily view and print PDF documents with this nifty little program. Foxit Reader is small (the download is less than 1MB) so it downloads quickly and it doesn't need any installation. You can start to run it as soon as you've downloaded it. It starts up immediately, so you don't need to wait for an annoying "Welcome" screen to disappear. It's extremely easy to use, just double click it to start and then click open button to open your PDF document. If you want to print, click on "Print" button. If you want to change the page layout for printing, select "Print Setup" from "File" menu.

Photocopier-- Got a scanner and a printer? Why not combine those two into a copy machine? Photocopier lets you put a document on your scanners platen, start Photocopier and press its Copy button. After a few moments your printer produces a copy of the document. Photocopier takes the hassle out of scanning. No difficult settings to make, very user friendly. And it's free!

PrintFolder -- A Very Handy Utility To Print Or Save A List Of Files Located In Any Folder. Right- Click Any Folder In Windows Explorer And Select "PrintFolder" In The Popup Menu.

Copying Machine -- This Great Program Is For People Who Have A TWAIN-Scanner And A Printer Attached To Their PC. The Idea Is Very Simple, Making A Copy Of A Real Document By Scanning It In With The Scanner And Print It With The Printer. It Works Just Like Any Real Copying Machine, But Has Some Additional Capabilities. For Example You Can Save The Images To Disc So You Can Make Copies Of Them In The Future Without Having To Scan Them Again. You Can Also Make A Selection On A Page In Order To Zoom In On A Particular Part. Another Feature Is That You Can Align An Image On A Page, So The Copy Is Always Perfectly Centered On The Printed Page. ** NOTE: Click On "Windows" In The Menu Bar At Top Of Page to get to "Copying Machine".

Graph Paper Printer -- An Application Designed To Print Custom Graph Paper In Any Size And Colors. Numerous Options Are Available Through Dropdown Pick-Lists.

FinePrint -- Print Large, Documents In Convenient Booklets, Or At 2, 4, Or 8 Up Thumbnail Size. Great For Manuals, Legal Briefs, Transcripts, Presentations, Acrobat (PDF) Files, Source Code, Web Pages And Email. Control Printing By Previewing Documents And Deleting Unwanted Pages From Any Application. Create Custom Electronic Lettehead And Forms. No More Buying, Storing And Manually Loading Pre-Printed Letterhead. It Takes The Same Amount Of Time To Print 2 Or 4 Pages On A Sheet As It Does To Print One Page. ** The Trial Version Does Not Have A Time Limit But Prints A "FinePrint ID" At The Bottom Of Each Sheet. ( I use this tool regularly... it's Great! )

Avery Label Wizard -- Cool Free Software That Works With Microsoft Word To Create Labels That Can Be Printed On Any Printer.

EZ-Forms Maker -- A Tool For Designing And Printing Professional-Looking Forms. It Provides A Full Suite Of Object-Oriented Drawing Tools For Form, Design And Manipulation. Features Of It Include: A Multi-Document WYSIWYG Interface; Support For Printing Or Faxing Forms; Precise Control Over Layout(Including Size, Colors And Fonts); Metric Measurements; A Variety Of Printer Options; And More.

WinMag Print Logger -- Know what documents you print, when and where you print them. The WinMag Print Logger records each completed print job in a special log file. The log file can be viewed, sorted, and imported into your favorite spreadsheet or word processor.

Impact ColorFax -- Tired of fighting with your fax machine? Impact Color Fax™ is designed for users who need a simple but effective PC color faxing solution. It is a PC based stand-alone fax software designed to run on Windows NT 4.0/Win2000/XP and Win95/98/ME.Impact Fax is compatible with hundreds of modems.

Albumatic - Here's a freeware solution to the problem of displaying photos on your website. Albumatic is the easiest, fastest way to get your photos on the Web. You orgainze your images into albums with thumbnails that are linked to bigger photos. You can crop, reverse, rotate, and add captions. Albumatic has a built-in FTP client that will copy everything to your Web site. TWAIN scanner support is built in.

MyAlbum - is A free picture cataloger for easily building digital photo albums.

Mihov Picture Downloader - Download bunches of pictures all at one time! This is a handy and useful tool for downloading all the pictures from one web page. Just type in the address and let this program do the rest. One click and all the graphics will be transfered to your hard drive, without clicking on every link and viewing each thumbnail.

Picture Shark - The first choice for people who want to "stamp" visible logos or text on their image files. Here are some of picture-shark's features:
*Wizard-like interface, super easy to use.
*Create real watermarks.
*Choose transparent color, opacity, position and much more.
*Use the "feather"-feature to make the edges between the stamp and the picture smarter as with any other tool, just by one mouse-click.
*Very fast (processing hundreds of pictures each minute).
*Support for different output formats and quality settings.
WYSIWYG preview-mode for all settings. Pretty handy and Free!

Rag Time Solo - Powerful DTP business publishing software for Windows and Mac OS... RagTime Solo available as Free download for non-commercial use. RagTime combines word processing, spreadsheet, pictures, drawing, charting, and slideshows, in an intuitive and easy-to-use layout environment. With RagTime you design photo albums, travel diaries, invitations, budgetary plannings, financial statements for associations and much more. This the full commercial version!

MultiCoverPrint - Need to print covers for your CD and other multimedia cases?... Why pay money for other programs which do exactly the same thing when you can use this freeware? MultiCoverPrint is a program for printing CD/DVD/VHS covers to fit a standard media case! It also includes a Internet Search for your covers, simply specify what cover to find either being cd, vhs, dvd, etc. and type the cover title/name and an internet window will open with the results, simply click and load!

Preclick Silver Photo Organizer - Little Program, Big Job! This down-loadable installation program is so small it could fit on a floppy disk. It's a surprisingly easy tool for organizing and even editing your photos. This photo organizer builds on earlier edition Preclick Lifetime, making it easy to organize, edit, print, preserve and share your digital photos. The filmstrip interface lets you scroll through hundreds of photos; the SmartPhoto feature supports captions and keywords for speedy searching and sorting. Preclick Silver Digital supports full-screen slide shows and photo e-mail, automatically resizing images. Basic editing features previously only in the commercial versions (cropping, rotation, adjusting brightness and banishing red eye) are included. You can sort the pictures you've chosen to look at by name, date, rating, or other option.

PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and email friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes. The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode. Nice 'n handy!

Baby Album - This software lets you create a complete multimedia baby album for your child by adding pictures, drawings, video clips and even audio clips directly into your pages. In a few clicks of your mouse, you can create your child's web site and publish it to the Internet, export your baby album to make CD-ROMs you can give to your loved ones or print it on paper.

Tux Paint is a drawing program designed for young children. It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program. Tux Paint provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative, they can even print their masterpieces! There's lots more to this nice little program so take a look, it'll cost you nothing and the little ones will thank you for it.

Picasa Photo Organizer - This awsome software is an automatic photo organizer that makes it easy to organize all your digital pictures. It will help you to quickly find photos on your computer, edit photos and remove red-eye, create and share albums and print your photos at home. Folk's, there's so much more you can do with this program, not nearly enough room to list it all here so take a look and do try it. Picasa truly is a great tool. (Google recently bought this company so ya gotta know it's great!)

Print Censor Free - Using the Print Censor Free you can control any printer. Print Censor Free comes with features that can be used to optimize work of printers - job queue management and one-click default printer setup; one-click job priority setting; any standard printer command can be executed directly from Print Censor. In addition, the program can be used for remote control by any printer of a network. Print Censor is very simple and beginner-friendly. The program uses step-by-step setup, which means any user can easily install and run the program.

Image Forge - This is a nifty, no-cost paint type program with a very well equipped set of tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics. With a large range of features and functionalities, far exceeding that of the MS-paint program, this piece of software will upgrade your ability to edit and create images, play around with special effects and do lots of really neat stuff.

PhotoFiltre - This is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use and has an easy learning curve. The toolbar gives you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks. (Free for non-commercial use)

ClearSkinFX - Want a professional portrait in 2 minutes? ClearSkinFX is an advanced automatic portrait retouching tool producing perfect smooth skin of your object, while preserving the crispness of the eyes, hair or background. (Note: Take a look at the screenshot example.)

Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery - Recover lost images from your digital camera memory card! Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery tool can help you recover lost images from corrupted or accidentally formatted digital camera memory cards. This no-cost rrogram works with ALL types of memory cards and it's able to recover images from formatted cards. Reads corrupted cards (even if they're not recognized by Windows). Recovers JPG, TIF (and most of RAW) files.

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