priPrinter: Crop, Annotate and Combine Pages Before Printing

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发布于 2026-09-18

Many people have experienced this: when printing a webpage, the last few lines of adverts take up an entire page; when printing a PDF or PPT handout, you only realise afterwards that combining two or four pages on one sheet would still be perfectly clear; and contracts and other documents often contain unnecessary headers and footers…

These issues are often not caused by the file itself, but by the lack of a final check and adjustment before printing.

priPrinter is a virtual printer tool designed to solve these problems. Whenever you start printing from any software, you can call it up to easily preview the result, crop excess areas, adjust the layout, and, once everything looks right, output the result to a physical printer or save it as a PDF.

priPrinter is available from the lizhi.shop software store, supports lifetime use, and is suitable for users who want to check and adjust their files before printing.

¥139.00

Combine Multiple Pages to Save Paper

A PDF handout or meeting document that runs to dozens of pages can become a thick stack when every page is printed on a separate sheet, especially when you are only reading it or taking notes and do not actually need such a large font size and generous margins.

priPrinter can scale and arrange multiple pages on a single sheet. Two pages, four pages or more can be combined as needed. Combined with the crop margins function, it can also remove excess page margins, making the best possible use of the limited space on each sheet.

When printing course materials, training documents, meeting handouts or large batches of PDFs, the benefit is clear: while keeping the content readable, you can use less paper, making the entire document more compact and portable.

3D Preview for Checking Before Printing

Many software programmes include a print preview, but this usually focuses more on confirming “what will be printed on this page”. If you also want to check the relationship between pages, the margins and the overall print result, there is often little room for adjustment.

priPrinter provides a more intuitive 3D print preview, allowing you to check the paper orientation, page margins and content position in advance.

If you find that a page is laid out incorrectly, there is no need to exit the printing process and return to the original file, or open a dedicated document-editing tool. You can handle it directly in priPrinter.

For people who only occasionally print one or two pages, this type of preview may not be particularly useful. But if you need to print dozens or even hundreds of pages at once, spending a little time checking them first is often much easier than discovering problems after printing.

Drag to Crop and Edit Pages Directly

When preparing a file for printing, you may find that the content is positioned to one side of the paper, the blank space around the edges is unbalanced, or you only want to print part of the page. Going back to Word or a PDF editor to adjust these things individually can be troublesome.

priPrinter lets you handle these issues directly in the print preview. Page margins and guides are displayed on the page, and when adjustments are needed, you can drag them directly with the mouse. Unwanted areas can also be cropped, leaving only the content you actually want to print.

The page order can also be reorganised before printing. This is particularly convenient for web materials, PDFs received at short notice, or documents that have already been finalised and whose source files are inconvenient to edit—a way to “make one more adjustment before printing”.

Annotate and Mask for More Convenient Office Work

Sometimes printing a file is not simply a matter of outputting it as it is. For example, you may want to add a note at an important point before a meeting, circle a section when reviewing materials, or temporarily hide sensitive information such as names, telephone numbers and amounts before printing a document for someone else.

priPrinter provides a range of page annotation and editing tools, allowing you to add text, graphics, lines and other elements directly to the content being printed.

You can mark areas that need emphasis and add supplementary information directly, without reopening the original file to make a few minor edits.

For private or sensitive content that should not appear on a paper document, you can also apply 遮盖处理 before printing.

This is especially useful for office documents such as contracts, quotations and internal materials: the original file can remain unchanged, while only the version prepared for this particular printout is edited before being output.

Conclusion

The idea behind priPrinter is simple: it gives you one more opportunity to preview and adjust a file before it is actually sent to the printer. Combining multiple pages, cropping and arranging the layout, and adding annotations or masks can all be completed at this stage, reducing the need to reprint.

If you frequently print webpages, PDFs, course materials or office documents, you can try out priPrinter’s features and then decide whether it suits your printing workflow.

priPrinter is currently available from the lizhi.shop software store, supports lifetime use, and is suitable for users who need to handle print previews, page layouts and office documents.

¥139.00