Established programs for printing documents that come with hardware drivers are not always convenient and understandable for some users. And the basic tools of the Windows platform do not differ in normal usability.
In such cases, third-party document printing programs come to the rescue, having advanced functionality and clear tools. On the Web, such software can be found very, very much, but not every product will be equally convenient and useful.
We will try to understand this issue and designate the most popular applications for printing documents that have distinguished themselves by their high-quality component and the mass of positive feedback from users. Some products come with a free distribution license, while others come at a cost.
Openoffice
This is a set of office applications aimed at working with text, as well as employees for creating presentations, spreadsheets, graphs and other data, including printing documents. Printing options are automatically configured with an eye to already installed drivers in the Windows OS, so there should be no problems with getting started.
This product is almost an exact copy of the venerable "Office" from Microsoft. Surely the fans of the latter know how well the printing of documents in Word is implemented. There is practically no difference with Word, especially if we are talking about ordinary needs: the same formatting, the same paragraph settings and the same pagination.
A very critical difference between OpenOffice and the same Word is the cost of the license. In the first case, you will not pay a dime for convenient printing of documents, and in the second, you will have to pay a rather large amount. So for many users the choice is quite obvious. Of course, if you need a powerful complex for working with any textual information and databases, then it is better to dwell on Microsoft products. Well, for those who need an extended, but still ordinary printing of documents from a flash drive or hard drive, OpenOffice is quite suitable.
Adobe Reader (Acrobat Reader DC)
This product, in fact, is a certain standard for other applications working with the PDF format. The latter is extremely fastidious to the software layout, so which program will have to work will not. The PDF format has an excellent visual component and is perfect for processing any text information and other complex data. That is why it is so widely in demand by professionals.
This application for printing documents with due care refers to the file format available for the file and does not violate it even by a millimeter during operation. Be sure that at the output you get exactly the document that is displayed on the screen.
Product Features
In addition to printing documents from a flash drive or hard drive, the program will help to arrange some notes or comments on the text, reorganize the pagination, and also provide direct access to your email to send / receive results, bypassing the browser or third-party clients.
The utility is distributed free of charge. The distribution can be found on the official resource of the developer. There is also a paid version of Pro, but this is a purely professional product for typesetting, and buying it just for printing documents is simply not practical.
Libreoffice
This is another similarity of the "Word" from "Microsoft", and very high quality. The application allows you to not only quickly and conveniently print a document, but also to fully edit it. There is a presentation branch, a graphical editor, database management, as well as table layout.
That is, by and large, in the person of LibreOffice, we have both Word and Excel, with the only difference being that this product is distributed completely free of charge. Perhaps the only fly in the ointment, except for a couple of installed unnecessary plug-ins in the browser, are the requirements for system resources.
On weak computers, the package will slow down significantly and “think” from time to time. The program needs at least 2 GB of RAM (and preferably 4) and a more or less modern processor. On the developer's site you can find a light version that is not so demanding on the technical side, but it has very limited functionality and is more like a regular Wordpad than a versatile Word.
Microsoft Office Word Viewer
This package is a significantly truncated version of the extended product of the same name. The program quietly digests almost all documents, and in particular - issued in the "Word". Here you can easily print a document from both external and internal drives.
The significant difference between the original and this version is the functionality. Here you can’t edit documents, check spelling and perform other actions familiar to text editors - just view and print.
One of the clear advantages of this product is its system requirements and speed. The utility will run even on the oldest computer running Windows XP. As for speed, the program opens and performs tasks at about the same level as the regular Notepad, which means it is very, very fast.
The application is distributed free of charge, and you can download it from the Microsoft website in the office software section. The program will be extremely useful if you need to print to a stream without editing.
ALReader
Most owners of mobile gadgets this application is probably familiar. But few people know that an ordinary reader for Android feels great among Windows. One of the main features of the utility is omnivorous. That is, she will calmly read almost any text format, starting from the fastidious FB2 and downloading documents with Word.
The application interface was also simple, and even a beginner in this business will deal with it. In addition, flexible settings allow you to practically visualize the document as you wish and also easily print it.
The program is completely undemanding to system resources and is distributed under a free license. So it’s definitely worth a try. Moreover, in the desktop version there is not even a hint of advertising and annoying banners.