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Total PDF Printer X

Print PDF files in batches to physical or network printers on Windows servers — via ActiveX, DLL, or command line.

Total PDF Printer X — Server Batch PDF Printer with ActiveX, DLL & Command Line

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Total PDF Printer X is a server-side SDK that prints PDF files in batches to physical or network printers on Windows servers — headlessly, without opening Acrobat, Foxit, or any PDF viewer in the print pipeline. It runs silent: no GUI, no dialogs, no popups. Total PDF Printer X ships with both a command-line binary and an ActiveX/COM interface, so it drops into ASP, PHP, .NET, Python, Ruby, Java, and any other COM-aware backend. Note that the destination argument is a printer name, not a file path — output goes to physical or network printers, not to disk.

Total PDF Printer X covers the full server-printing scenario:

  • Print to any local, USB, network, or virtual Windows printer (by friendly name or UNC path)
  • Sort and print by file date, time, or name (-sort)
  • Separator sheets — insert a blank page or any custom file between documents (great for duplex print stacks)
  • Auto-rotate and fit-to-page handle different PDF sizes in one batch
  • Page numbering and text watermarks (copyright, company name, "CONFIDENTIAL") added to each printed sheet
  • Page-range selection (-rn), multiple copies (-NumCopy), duplex modes (-d vertical for long-edge, -d horizontal for short-edge)
  • Paper size (-ps A4, Letter, Legal, etc.) and color mode (-cl monochrome) per job
  • Queue-file processing via -list for unattended worker patterns
  • Pair with Total Folder Monitor for hot-folder auto-print on file arrival

Typical deployment: an FTP drop or ERP export folder receives PDFs (invoices, packing slips, shipping labels, court filings); Folder Monitor catches each new file and invokes Total PDF Printer X with a printer name and flags; the file lands on paper with no operator intervention. Tens of thousands of pages per day per print server is normal.

Note that Total PDF Printer X runs on Windows servers only. Try it for free (30 days trial period, no limitations) and find out that it is really worth its money.

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Examples of Total PDF Printer X

Print PDF files with Total PDF Printer X and .NET


string src     = @"C:\test\test1.pdf";
string printer = "HP LaserJet M404";

var prn = new PDFPrinterX();
prn.Print(src, printer, "-NumCopy 2 -d vertical -ps A4 -log c:\\test\\Printer.log");

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(prn.ErrorMessage))
    throw new Exception(prn.ErrorMessage);

Print PDF files on web servers with Total PDF Printer X

public static class Function1
    {
        [FunctionName("Function1")]
        public static async Task Run(
            [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous, "get", "post", Route = null)] HttpRequest req,
            ILogger log)
        {
            StringBuilder sbLogs = new StringBuilder();
            sbLogs.AppendLine("started...");
            try
            {
                ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
                startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
                startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                var assemblyDirectoryPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
                assemblyDirectoryPath = assemblyDirectoryPath.Substring(0, assemblyDirectoryPath.Length - 4);

                var executablePath = $@"{assemblyDirectoryPath}\Printer\PDFPrinterX.exe";
                sbLogs.AppendLine(executablePath + "...");
                var srcPath = $@"{assemblyDirectoryPath}\src\sample.pdf";
                var printerName = "HP LaserJet M404";
                startInfo.FileName = executablePath;

                if (File.Exists(executablePath) && File.Exists(srcPath))
                {
                    sbLogs.AppendLine("files exists...");
                }
                else
                    sbLogs.AppendLine("EXE & source files NOT exists...");
                startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
                startInfo.Arguments = $"\"{srcPath}\" -p \"{printerName}\"";
                using (Process exeProcess = Process.Start(startInfo))
                {
                    sbLogs.AppendLine($"wait...{DateTime.Now.ToString()}");
                    exeProcess.WaitForExit();
                    sbLogs.AppendLine($"complete...{DateTime.Now.ToString()}");
                }
                sbLogs.AppendLine("Print job submitted.");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                sbLogs.AppendLine(ex.ToString());
            }

            return new OkObjectResult(sbLogs);
        }
    }
More information about Azure Functions.

Print PDF files on web servers with Total PDF Printer X

dim C
Set C=CreateObject("PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX")
C.Print "c:\test\source.pdf", "HP LaserJet M404", "-NumCopy 2 -ps A4 -log c:\test\PrintPDF.log"
Response.Write C.ErrorMessage
set C = nothing

Print PDF files with PHP and Total PDF Printer X

$src = "C:\\test\\test.pdf";
$printer = "My Printer Name";
$c = new COM("PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX");
$c->Print($src, $printer, "-ps A4 -NumCopy 2");
if ($c->ErrorMessage == "") echo "OK"; else echo "fail:".$c->ErrorMessage;

Print PDF files with Total PDF Printer X and Ruby

require 'win32ole'
c = WIN32OLE.new('PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX')

src = "C:\\test\\test.pdf"
printer = "HP LaserJet M404"

c.Print(src, printer, "-NumCopy 2 -d vertical -log c:\\test\\PDFPrinter.log")

if c.ErrorMessage != ""
  puts c.ErrorMessage
end

Print PDF files with Total PDF Printer X and Python

import win32com.client

c = win32com.client.Dispatch("PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX")

src = "C:\\test\\test.pdf"
printer = "HP LaserJet M404"

c.Print(src, printer, "-NumCopy 2 -d vertical -log c:\\test\\PDFPrinter.log")

if c.ErrorMessage:
    print(c.ErrorMessage)

Print PDF files with Pascal and Total PDF Printer X

uses Dialogs, Vcl.OleAuto;

var
  c: OleVariant;
begin
  c := CreateOleObject('PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX');
  c.Print('c:\test\source.pdf', 'HP LaserJet M404', '-NumCopy 2 -ps A4 -log c:\test\PDFPrinter.log');
  if c.ErrorMessage <> '' then
    ShowMessage(c.ErrorMessage);
end;

Print PDF files on web servers with Total PDF Printer X

var c = new ActiveXObject("PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX");
c.Print("C:\\test\\source.pdf", "HP LaserJet M404", "-NumCopy 2 -ps A4");
if (c.ErrorMessage != "")
  alert(c.ErrorMessage)

Print PDF files with Total PDF Printer X and Perl

use Win32::OLE;

my $src     = "C:\\test\\test1.pdf";
my $printer = "HP LaserJet M404";

my $c = CreateObject Win32::OLE 'PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX';
$c->Print($src, $printer, "-NumCopy 2 -log c:\\test\\PDFPrinter.log");
print $c->ErrorMessage if $c->ErrorMessage ne "";

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Total PDF Printer X Customer Reviews 2026

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Rated 4.7/5 based on customer reviews
5 Star

"Scanprint Logistics is a warehouse, where we store and distribute products for our customers. We are using Total PDF Printer X together with Total Folder Monitor to automate printing of PDF files from our customers and our ERP system. Our customers upload PDF files (e.g. invoices) to our FTP server, and then Total PDF Printer X prints them out, so we can include them with the goods we send out."

5 Star Frants Erikstrup
www.scanprint.dk

"After installing the version of Total PDF Printer and Total PDF Printer X, no issues were found, so my feedback is very positive. We are just starting the use of this new version (we already used a previous version) and in case we have questions I'll take care to send you a message. Thanks and best regards."

5 Star Silverio Pattuelli
Ravenna, Italy, www.nobleagri.com

"Twelve warehouse sites, each with its own label printer and packing-slip printer. Total PDF Printer X plus Folder Monitor: an inbox folder per printer, the ERP drops PDFs in, paper appears at the right station within seconds. -p picks the printer by friendly name; -t puts the order number in the Windows queue so operators can find a stuck job. We replaced a homemade Acrobat-automation pipeline that broke every time Acrobat updated. Five years on PDF Printer X, no failures we can blame on the converter."

5 Star Marcin Z.
Senior IT Engineer at a 3PL warehouse network

"Bundled Total PDF Printer X into our medical-records product under the Royalty-Free License. The one-time per-project fee was a fraction of what Aspose.PDF or PDFTron wanted for redistribution rights on the print path. Our installer ships and registers the ActiveX, our app calls Print() directly, end users see only our UI. The 32-bit ActiveX limitation cost us a couple of days of pipeline rework, but support was responsive when we asked about workarounds."

4 Star Sasha P.
Independent Software Vendor

"Court filings arrive as PDF; we print them with case-number watermarks and page numbers for the physical case file. Separator sheets between documents keep the daily stack organized for the records clerk. -rn lets us print only the signature pages when that's all we need. Deterministic across runs, which matters for audit. The CLI is stable, well-documented, and the -xmllog flag gives us machine-readable per-job output for our audit trail."

5 Star Eleni V.
Lead Developer at a court-records office


Command-Line Examples

Total PDF Printer X ships with PDFPrinterX.exe, a console binary you can drive from scripts, scheduled tasks, print-server hooks, or any backend service that needs paper output. The flag set matches the GUI PDFPrinter.exe; for the full reference see the command-line documentation. Note that the destination argument is a printer name, not a file path — output goes to physical or network printers, not to disk.

1. Print one PDF to the default printer

The smallest possible call. Omit the printer name and the document goes to whatever Windows considers the current default printer.

PDFPrinterX.exe "C:\docs\invoice.pdf"

2. Print to a specific named printer

-p accepts the friendly printer name as it appears in the Windows Printers panel, or any unique fragment of it.

PDFPrinterX.exe "C:\docs\invoice.pdf" -p "HP LaserJet M404"

Partial matches work too — -p HP will pick the first printer whose name contains "HP".

3. Print only a page range

For long PDFs where you need a few sheets — cover page, signature page, a single chapter — use -rn to limit the printed range.

PDFPrinterX.exe "C:\docs\contract.pdf" -p "Office Printer" -rn "1-3,7,12-14"

4. Print multiple copies, duplex, on A4

Typical office case: hand out N copies of the same document, both sides, A4. -NumCopy sets the copy count, -d vertical enables long-edge duplex, -ps A4 forces paper size.

PDFPrinterX.exe "C:\docs\handout.pdf" -p "HP LaserJet M404" -NumCopy 25 -d vertical -ps A4

5. Print every PDF in a folder by mask

Point the binary at a wildcard and it prints each matching file as a separate job. Useful for nightly batches of generated reports.

PDFPrinterX.exe "C:\reports\daily\*.pdf" -p "Reports Printer" -sort name

Add -Recurse to include subfolders, or -combine to send the whole batch as one merged print job instead of one job per file.

6. Print to a network printer over UNC

Shared printers on a Windows print server are addressed by their share name. Pass the UNC path verbatim to -p.

PDFPrinterX.exe "C:\docs\report.pdf" -p "\\PRINTSRV01\Accounting-HP" -t "Q3 Report" -cl monochrome

-t sets the job title shown in the Windows print queue, which makes the job easy to find or cancel.

7. Drive a print queue from a list file

When an external worker writes a queue file and the printer consumes it, you don't want the file paths in the command line itself. -list reads file masks (one per line) from a plain text file.

PDFPrinterX.exe -list "C:\queues\print-queue.txt" -p "Office Printer" -fo

-fo forces processing without prompts; combine with -do if the queue worker also expects originals to be deleted after a successful print.

8. Server-side run with a detailed log

Once PDFPrinterX.exe runs as a service or scheduled task, the log is the only signal of what actually happened. -verbosity detail writes one line per file; -logmode append keeps history across runs; -xmllog emits a parser-friendly companion file.

PDFPrinterX.exe "C:\spool\*.pdf" -p "Warehouse Label Printer" -log "C:\logs\pdfprint.log" -verbosity detail -logmode append -xmllog "C:\logs\pdfprint.xml"

Who Uses Total PDF PrinterX?

IT teams that automate batch PDF printing on Windows servers via command line and ActiveX

Enterprise Printing

Automated Server-Side Printing

Print PDF files on servers without any user interaction

IT departments deploy Total PDF PrinterX on Windows servers to print incoming PDF documents automatically. The application runs silently with no GUI or pop-up messages, printing batches of PDFs via command line on schedule — ideal for invoices, reports, and documents that need to be printed as soon as they arrive.

Finance & Accounting

Invoice & Statement Printing

Batch-print thousands of PDF invoices in date order

Accounting departments print daily batches of PDF invoices, statements, and financial reports sorted by file date or time. Total PDF PrinterX adds page numbers or company watermarks to each sheet, and separator pages between documents keep the printed stack organized for distribution or mailing.

Web & Application Integration

Print-from-Web Applications

Add PDF printing to your web app via ActiveX

Software developers integrate Total PDF PrinterX via ActiveX into web applications, ERP systems, and document management platforms. Users trigger print jobs from a browser, and the server handles printing silently — no desktop software or user intervention required on the server side.

Logistics & Warehousing

Shipping Document Printing

Auto-print packing slips and shipping labels from a server

Warehouses and distribution centers auto-print PDF packing slips, shipping labels, and delivery notes as orders flow in. Auto-rotate and fit-to-page options handle different document sizes without manual adjustment, and duplex-safe separator sheets prevent documents from bleeding across double-sided pages.

Legal & Government

Regulatory & Court Document Printing

Print case files with watermarks and page numbering

Government agencies and legal departments batch-print PDF filings, case documents, and regulatory submissions on dedicated print servers. Add text watermarks with confidentiality notices or copyright information to every page, and stamp page numbers for organized physical records — all hands-free via command line.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Total PDF Printer X ▼

No. Total PDF Printer X has its own PDF-rendering engine. You do not need Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Foxit, or any third-party PDF viewer on the print server. This is the main reason customers move from PDFsharp/iText/SumatraPDF print pipelines — no Acrobat licensing, no headless viewer crashes, no per-version compatibility breakage when the source PDF uses a non-standard feature.
Pass the friendly printer name (as it appears in Windows Settings » Printers) to -p: -p "HP LaserJet M404". Partial matches work too, so -p HP picks the first printer whose name contains "HP". For shared printers on a Windows print server use the UNC share path: -p "\\PRINTSRV01\Accounting-HP". Omit -p to print to the current Windows default printer.
Total PDF Printer X exposes a COM/ActiveX interface, so any COM-aware language can call it directly: new COM("PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX") in PHP, new PDFPrinterX() in .NET, win32com.client.Dispatch("PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX") in Python, WIN32OLE.new('PDFPrinter.PDFPrinterX') in Ruby. Note the COM method name is Print, not Convert — the destination is a printer name, not a file path. Alternatively, the PDFPrinterX.exe command-line binary can be invoked from any process, scheduler, or shell script.
Total PDF Printer is the desktop GUI version intended for interactive use on a workstation. Total PDF Printer X is the server SDK: no graphical interface, no dialogs, no end-user interaction. It is licensed for unattended server-side use, includes the ActiveX/COM interface for application integration, and supports a Royalty-Free License for redistribution inside your own product.
Yes. Use -rn "1-3,7,12-14" for arbitrary page ranges. -NumCopy 25 sets the copy count. -d vertical enables long-edge duplex (the typical "book" binding); -d horizontal is short-edge duplex ("calendar" binding). -ps A4/Letter/Legal forces paper size; -cl monochrome forces black-and-white output even on a colour printer.
Separator sheets are pages inserted between documents in a print batch — either a blank page or a custom file (banner, divider, cover sheet) that you choose. They protect the duplex page count for documents with an odd number of pages, and they make it easy to find document boundaries in a printed stack. The flag picks the separator file; combined with sorting, this turns a chaotic batch into an organized output ready for distribution or mailing.
Yes. Pair Total PDF Printer X with Total Folder Monitor: Folder Monitor watches an inbox folder, and on each new PDF arrival invokes PDFPrinterX.exe with the printer name and flags you configure. This is the canonical setup for warehouses (auto-print packing slips), accounting (auto-print invoices), and ERP integrations (auto-print exports). The -list queue-file flag covers worker-driven pipelines where another process writes the print queue.
Yes. The download is a fully functional 30-day trial with all features unlocked — no credit card and no email required to start. After 30 days you decide whether to purchase. The license is one-time payment with lifetime updates and technical support.
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