If you need to print a large number of files at once, having to open each one individually and then print them can be a nuisance. Speed the process up by dragging the files you need onto the printer.
To do this in Windows 7, open up the printer from the Devices and Printers option on the Start menu (or search for your printer by name). Drag the relevant files onto the printer window, and you’ll see a dialog box asking if you want to print multiple files. Click ‘Yes’ and they’ll all be opened and printed in their entirety, with the default settings.(You can also copy and paste the files if you want a more keyboard-centric approach.) If there’s a large number of files this may take a while, but you won’t need to intervene.
This might not be new advice to you, but it’s an approach I had never considered before a colleague asked me if there was a speedy way to print multiple PDF files from a single directory. Googling suggests it also works on Macs.
ryanhaigh
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 2:10 PMWith Adobe reader on XP you can select the pdfs in explorer, right click, print and the pdfs print on the default printer. This is one of the FEW reasons I still have adobes software on my machine.
Just tested and this also works if you mix file types (eg docx/pdf) as does the tip mentioned in the article.
MH
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 2:21 PMor you can highlight the PDFs that you want to print and right click and press print
Chris
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 2:48 PMYou should be able to just select all the files – right click and select print from the pop menu as well.
Angus Kidman
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 9:03 PMThat was my initial thought, but isn’t actually an option with many file types.
Nick Stokes
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 3:48 PMSelecting them all in explorer and right clicking -> Print also works. Thought for some reason it opens and prints them in no particular order.
Sam
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 10:16 PMYou can also drag a shortcut to the printer onto the desktop and drop your files onto that. You can’t place it on the taskbar unfortunately.
Magnus
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 10:40 PMYou can also drag and drop the printer shortcut to the quick start bar. And drag and drop your files onto that.
John
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8:09 PMHi, here my info. In my configuration (clean Win7 machine) under Adobe (v10.1.1) prints not all marked PDFs. From 15 docs prints diferent 9-14!
But under Foxit runs ready.
Fabio Giacomelli
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 10:29 PMI was looking for something similar, just tried, I confirm that it works like a charm, without external software! :-)