Dealertrack

How to print Dealertrack to PDF, with the logos intact

Dealertrack is a web-based DMS, and most of its forms only render their logos, table borders, and column headers when they are sent to a printer. F&I and Sales forms can already save to PDF on their own. Parts, Service, and the Business Office forms cannot, so their only built-in option is QPRINT, which is unformatted text. PrintSent captures the same fully formatted output a printer would receive and saves it as a pixel-perfect PDF, in a shared portal to view, email, or download.

The problem

Why most forms won't just save as a clean PDF

Dealertrack applies a form's logos, borders, and column headers through printer macro templates, so that complete layout only appears when the form is sent to a printer. On screen and through QPRINT you get the raw text without any of it, which makes an invoice, receipt, or statement hard to read and clearly not customer ready. F&I and Sales are the exception: several of their forms save to PDF natively, so those departments already have an option. Parts, Service, and the Business Office do not, which is where PrintSent fits.

To work around it, staff try a couple of things. Some screenshot parts of the Dealertrack web portal, but those screens are built for internal use and either miss data or leave off the logos. Others rebuild the document in their own Word template and retype or paste the numbers in, which is slow, easy to get wrong, and not practical dozens of times a day. PrintSent removes the workaround: staff click Print like always, and the fully formatted PDF appears in the portal.

Compare

Ways to get a Dealertrack document out

ApproachWhat you getThe catch
Native PDF (F&I & Sales forms)A fully formatted PDFOnly certain F&I and Sales forms can do it
QPRINT (other forms)Unformatted text, no logos or bordersHard to read; a private spool file, cleared nightly
Screenshot the web portalA quick image of the screenMisses data or logos; not customer ready
Rebuild it in WordA clean-looking documentManual, slow, and error prone
PrintSent virtual printerA fully formatted, pixel-perfect PDFIn the portal to view, email, or download

For the head-to-head on text-only output, see QPRINT vs full-fidelity PDF.

The flow

Print like always, get a PDF

1

Click Print in Dealertrack

Same button, same habit. Choose the printer that points at PrintSent.

2

The device captures the job

The full print stream is rendered to a pixel-perfect PDF in seconds, logos and layout intact.

3

View, email, or download

The PDF appears in your shared portal, ready to view, email, or download in a couple of clicks.

Want the click-by-click steps? See how to set up the virtual printer in Dealertrack.

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