How to Bulk Print E-Mail Messages

So you need to print out a bunch of emails? You’ve come to the right place. This article will discuss serveral ways to bulk print email messages.

Printing From Your Email Client

Most email clients provide a method to print multiple email messages.  In Microsoft Office Outlook, for example, bulk printing emails is as easy as selecting multiple mails from the list, right clicking on the list and then choosing “Quick Print.”

Screen shot of Outlook 2013, with multiple emails selected, and the right click menu showing "Quick Print."
Print Multiple Emails from Outlook

Most email clients have this ability, or something similar. It’s possible your situation may be more complex.  For example, what if you are a legal secretary tasked with printing out emails involved in a legal case, and the messages you received in discovery are in different formats, and not viewable in your email client software?

Printing Emails Using an Email Viewer

Quality email viewing software can open email messages that are stored in many different formats, including Outlook .pst or .ost files, individual emails saved as .msg or .eml files, .mbox, or winmail.dat files.  Using an email viewer like Encryptomatic LLC’s PstViewer Pro can be an easy way to gain quick access to emails without the need install multiple email clients on your computer.

screen shot of PstViewer Pro email viewer with multiple emails selected.
Printing multiple email formats with PstViewer Pro

PstViewer Pro can organize multiple email messages into a single list even if they have different formats.  For example, .msg and .eml emails can be bundled together into one view.  This makes it possible to discover similar email content by applying search filters across different types of email content.

To select all of the email content in the list for printing, type ‘Control A” on your Windows keyboard, then select Print.

For more information about printing with PstViewer Pro, feel free to reach us using the Live Chat on this website, post them in the comments, or email the support team: supportline at encryptomatic.com.

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How to Batch Print .EML Files

Printing .EML files can be a very tedious chore. If you are using an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird to open individual .eml files and print them, it gets boring fast.  Opening and printing .eml files this way is ok if you only have a few, but what if you have a folder filled with hundreds or thousands of .eml files?

Download Eml Viewer for email.

EmlViewer Pro (also known as PstViewer Pro) is a Windows software application that helps you work with email content.

EmlViewer Pro lets you to batch-print any number of selected EML files. Here’s how to do it.

First, start EML Viewer Pro. Using the folder explorer, select the folder containing the .eml emails. The messages will quickly populate the software’s Mail List.

Next, type “Control-A” to select all of the emails in the list.  Selected emails will appear blue.

print .eml files from maillist
Mail list.
Now, click the Print button from the EML Viewer Pro toolbar.
Location of the print button in EmlViewer Pro.
Print button location.

When the printer dialog appears, choose the printer (or virtual printer) to which EmlViewer Pro will print .eml files.

Select printer to batch print .eml files.
Choose printer for .eml batch print job

EML Viewer Pro will start printing your emails. You can go have some coffee while it’s printing. That’s all there is to it.

If you can send .eml files to a printer, can you also batch print .eml files to a PDF file?

Yes, you certainly can! One options would be to tell EML Viewer Pro to print to a virtual PDF printer, such as the free BullZip virtual PDF printer.  Virtual printers may each behave a bit differently, so you should be aware of any peculiarities with your chosen software.

If you want to print multiple .eml files to a single PDF, make sure your virtual printer will support that. Many virtual PDF printers will print separate PDF files, but some will create a single .pdf file. Snaggit is a software tool with a virtual printer that will accept the export of many .eml files and combine them into a single file which can later be converted to PDF.

EML Viewer Procan also prints .eml files directly to PDF files. Here are a couple of articles we wrote earlier specifically about how to print .eml files to PDF files.

Download a free trial of EML Viewer Pro today and get started.