Setting Print Options with PaperCut Printer (Windows)

Learn how to customize your document printing preferences including duplexing, color settings, and finishing options like stapling and hole punching. This guide provides a walkthrough for configuring professional print profiles to streamline your output workflow.

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Papercut

Windows

With PaperCut Hive, you now control all print options (single/double-sided, color, staple, hole-punch) exclusively from your computer instead of changing them at the copier touchscreen. Because most apps' print dialogs (like the familiar Google Chrome print dialog) do not show all available print options, you will leverage the Windows system print dialog to set your options and create time-saving presets for your most commonly used print options.

Opening the System Print Dialog

In this example, we are printing from Chrome. Most apps have a "Print using system dialog" or similar button to bring up the system print dialog.

Select the "CS-PaperCut" printer.

If needed, click "More settings" to expand the additional options.

Scroll down and click "Print using system dialog", or use the keyboard shortcut [[Ctrl + Shift + P]] to go directly to the system print dialog.

Setting Basic Options

Basic options such as copies, page range, and orientation are available in this first window.

Setting Additional Options

Click "More settings".

Set the "1-sided/2-sided/Booklet Printing:" option to 1-sided or 2-sided printing as desired.

Set the "Color Mode" option to "Black and White" or "Color" as desired.

Navigate to the "Finishing" tab.

Set the "Finishing" option to "Staple + Collate" if stapling is desired. Note: "Collate" is the typical "packet" stapling method. "Group" staples copies of the same page number together.

Set the "Hole Punch" option to "3 Holes" if desired.

Creating Presets

Click "Add" to save the current settings as a new profile (AKA preset).

Type a descriptive name for your profile in the "Name" field. In this example, we set Black & White two sided printing with staples and hole punch, so we named the profile accordingly for easy identification. The comment box allows you to enter additional notes if desired.

Click "OK".

Recalling Presets

While in the system print dialog, select the desired profile (AKA preset) from the "Profile" dropdown menu.

Click "OK"

After loading a profile, you can make additional ad-hoc changes (e.g., page range or number of copies) before printing.

Printing

If desired, select "Custom range" from the "Pages" dropdown. Note that the page range option is available only in this first window.

Click "Print" to send the document to the printer.