PDF2Printer for Windows 8

Specially made for Windows 8, PDF2Printer is a simple-to-use and versatile application that gives you the possibility to seamlessly print PDF documents by opening their right-click menu in Windows Explorer. It offers support for batch jobs and features some useful configuration settings.

Simple setup and GUI

After a fast and uneventful setup operation, the app creates three separate executable files for launching the graphical interface, preparing PDFs for batch prints, and for managing configuration settings, respectively.
The GUI is approachable and lets you open PDFs to view them in full screen mode. It's possible to zoom in and out, change the page orientation, go to the first, last, previous or next page, jump to a specific page, play the document in a slideshow, as well as set PDF2Printer as the default PDF printer.

Configure batch printing jobs and other settings

When it comes to preparing multiple PDFs for printing, you can select the target printer, page scaling mode (e.g. fit to page, shrink large pages), rotate pages to fit on the output medium, set the maximum number of documents in the printing queue, as well as include entire directories with PDFs to print.
The configuration panel contains the same page scaling and smart rotation options previously described. Plus, you can enable shell integration and ask the tool to hide the print dialog in order to use the default or a specific printer instead.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that PDF2Printer didn't hang, crash or display error messages. Unlike what its names suggests, it supports not only Windows 8, but also older OS editions, including Windows XP. CPU and RAM consumption was minimal.
The bottom line is that PDF2Printer provides you with a convenient and clear-cut method to prepare multiple PDFs for batch printing via the Windows Explorer shell extension, and it can be easily handled by anyone. Plus, it's free.