Queuing and Printing Print Templates to PDF24

BELOW ARE STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR GETTING SETUP AND PRINTING THE TEMPLATES

 

1. On your desktop create a folder named PDFs (will use this later)
2. If you don’t already have PDF24 on your computer, go here to download and install it https://tools.pdf24.org/en/creator
   1. Click on the icon in the upper right corner of screen
   2. After install open PDF24 and click on PDF Creator
      

      

   3. Click on Tools on the top menu and then select preferences
   4. Select Assistant and check these options and click the 3 dots to point the fixed save directory to the PDFs folder on your desktop
      
   5. Click apply, then select PDF Printer
      1. Enter these options and click the 3 dots to point to your PDFs folder on the desktop
      2. Enter the filename exactly as you see it.   

$fileName_%m-%d-%y_%H_%M_%S_$printerName

Click apply and close program

1. Make sure you have CORE print installed on your computer.  Go to settings in CORE then CORE Print on the left menu.
2. Open CORE print and log into your CORE Address using your CORE login and password
   
3. Go into CORE and go to Emails/Proofs > on the left menu Printer Settings
   1. If you don’t see your computer name and PDF24 under Active Printers, look for it under Inactive Printers.
      1. If inactive, check it and click the Activate button on the bottom of the page
4. Go to the event in CORE that you want to generate proofs for
   1. On the left menu select Order > Then queue print templates
   2. Select your computer name:PDF24
   3. Select the appropriate template.
   4. Select the appropriate Queue Profile.
      
5. After it finishes queuing you will see the number of pages it queues
6. Open your PDFs folder on the desktop.  Make sure it’s empty. If not move any files out of this folder.  It needs to be empty before you start queuing a new job.
7. Open CORE Print
   1. You will see the job in the CORE print queue
      Right click on the job and select print entire job

      

8. You may see this screen, if so click Start PDF24 service
   

9. Then you may see this screen, if so click enter on your keyboard

   

10. You will then see this as files are being created

    
11. You’ll see the status in the CORE print window.  When the job is finished open your PDFs folder on your desktop.
12. When the job finishes open your PDFs folder on your desktop to view your newly generated print templates.