Installation

Printy ships as a pre-built desktop app. You need no development tools to run it.

All downloads are on GitHub Releases.

Windows

Windows is Printy’s primary platform. Two installers are published and both install the same application:

File	Use it when
Printy_<version>_x64-setup.exe	Normal installation. Double-click and follow the prompts.
Printy_<version>_x64_en-US.msi	Software deployment that expects an MSI.

The portable variant

For machines where nothing may be installed, Printy_<version>_x64-portable.zip contains the executable and the PDF rendering library it needs.

Caution

Unpack both files into the same folder and keep them together. Printy.exe on its own starts and looks healthy, then fails on the first PDF, because the rendering library sitting next to it is what reads PDFs. If you have already separated them, put pdfium.dll back beside the executable — or point Printy at it under Einstellungen → Erweitert → pdfium-Bibliothek.

System requirements

• Windows 10 or newer, 64-bit.
• A printer installed in Windows. Printy offers exactly the printers Windows knows about.

macOS

brew tap NoiXdev/tap
brew install --cask printy

Or download the .dmg from the latest release, open it, and drag Printy into Applications.

System requirements

• macOS 13 (Ventura) or newer. Universal — Apple silicon and Intel in one build.
• A printer configured in System Settings → Printers & Scanners.

One guarantee is weaker on macOS

macOS prints through the system print service rather than rendering pages itself. With Inhalt an Seite anpassen turned off, a page larger than your paper is cropped rather than shrunk, because the system offers no “shrink but never enlarge” mode. On Windows the same setting never crops.

If you print documents that can be larger than the paper, leave that setting on — or use Windows. Platform differences covers this in full.

First launch

Printy starts in the system tray and opens its window. The interface is German.

On macOS the first launch also asks for permission to send notifications. Allowing it is optional — Printy prints either way, you simply will not be told when something fails. You can change this later under Einstellungen → Benachrichtigungen.

Where Printy keeps its data

Everything — folders, settings and job history — is in a single SQLite database on your machine. Nothing is sent anywhere. Einstellungen → Erweitert → Datenbank shows the exact path and reveals it in the file manager.

See Security and data for details.

Next

Set up your first folder.