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Printy prints whatever lands in the folder
Printy watches folders and prints whatever lands in them. You set the printer and settings once per folder. For Windows and macOS.
by NoiXdev
A scanner drops PDFs into a folder. The ERP writes delivery notes. Then somebody opens each file, picks the printer, clicks print and closes it again. All day. When that person is away from the desk, everything waits.
The rule behind all that clicking is usually simple: everything in this folder goes to that printer, two copies, double-sided. Printy is where you write that rule down once.
What it does
- One rule per folder. Printer, copies, duplex, colour and file types. It prints PDFs and common image formats.
- Careful by design. Printy waits until a file is fully written and never prints anything twice. Whatever is already in a folder when you add it counts as done.
- Nothing gets lost. A printer that is off pauses the queue. A broken file doesn’t hold up the rest.
- A history. Any job can be printed again with its original settings.
- Quietly in the background. It sits in the tray and can start with your computer. No account, no telemetry.
It deliberately skips network shares and Office files. The interface is in German for now.
Get started
Downloads for Windows and macOS are on the project page, and the documentation walks you through the setup.