Free Printer Tools!

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Page Countster Description:

Page Countster is a small, portable and freeware application designed to scan a network for printers and display the information about them including the IP address, MAC Address, Host Name, Model Name, Serial Number, Total Page Count, Color Page Count and the ink levels.

Some other features that this application has is the ability to send the information to an email address or display it as a HTML report. Another neat feature is that you can right click on the printer and bring up more information including the loading of the printers web interface. You can also send a test page to any network printer without needing a driver.

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Features

• Quickly find printers on a network
• Auto-detection of network address range
• Send Printer Information Report to Email Address.
• Option to save a default network configuration to Config.ini
• Quickly reopen report(s) via Drag-N-Drop into program window.
• Send a (Plain Text) test page to any network printer without needing a driver.
• Quick & easy way to replace serial number (on HP printers) if formatter has been changed…HP’s method takes, 10min, an Uber secret code, & an act of congress.
• Quick & easy of changing the printer’s (Ready State) Display Text to any 16 character (max) string. Granted this “feature” is primarily a toy that will be missused…But, I couldn’t resist adding it.
• Can also (quickly) change/update page counts & HOST Name.
• Scan reports can be saved in either .csv or .tsv format for import into Excel, or reopened  to rescan a given group of printers. Emailed reports are in a printable HTML table format.
• Portablility: requires no install or runtimes
• Fast: Typically scans at a rate of 20 IPs per second
• Small: Currently only 282KB

Other free printer tools:

• BRAdmin Professional – Like Page Countster originally developed for brother machines but works on everything.

• Print2PDF can create an Adobe® PDF from any application that can print. Supports paper sizes up to 200 inches, landscape and portrait orientation, and a resolution of up to 2400 DPI. Support for creating PDF files that are compliant with Adobe® specifications 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and the ISO 19005-1 PDF/A-1a archive standard gives you the greatest flexibility in working with PDF.
• Ls Directory Print – Is a program that does a great job printing directory’s or folders.
• PrintToDesktop – lets you print your screen with the click of a mouse or the shortcut key of your choice.
• CutePDFWriter – Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world.  CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a “printer subsystem”. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents – with just a push of a button!
• Pdf Ghost Script – is a powerful interface for RedMon and Ghostscript – the free PostScrtip and PDF interpreter. RedMon redirects the printer output to an external program and Ghostscript can convert PostScript files to PDF files. PDF Ghostscript Tool is receives the printer data from RedMon and creates PDF files with Ghostscript. With PDF Ghostscript Tool you can create PDF files easily. Version 2.0.3 has an automatic installation and configuration wizard.