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OrbitPDF
OrbitPDF
Printing platform for Odoo operations
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By Sveltware Solutions

Every document on the right printer. Instantly.

OrbitPDF Direct Print turns any computer on your network into a shared print station and wires it straight into Odoo. Delivery slips print themselves on validation, labels come out at the receiving desk, receipts fire at the counter, and every job is tracked from click to paper. Built on the open QZ Tray standard: no IoT Box, no cloud relay, no monthly fees, and nothing ever leaves your local network.

Architecture
Open QZ Tray Standard
A decade-mature, open-source print bridge trusted across industries. Your IT can audit every line it runs.
Cost Model
No Cloud, No Subscription
One purchase. No per-document quotas, no monthly print service bill, no special hardware.
Operations
Full Print Audit Trail
Every job records who printed what, when, and on which physical device. Reprint in one click.
Live Demo · Try Before You Buy
This demo prints on your printer.
The print bridge runs on your side of the wire, so our hosted database can drive the printer sitting next to you. Prove the whole flow, on your hardware and your labels, before you buy anything.
1 Install QZ Tray 2 Open the demo 3 Printer Manager · Set up trust
https://orbitpdf.sveltware.com/odoo/platoin
Click to select, copy into a new tab. The test page comes out of the printer next to you.

# A Print Server Built Into Odoo

Printing is where digital workflows meet the physical world, and it is where most Odoo deployments still lose time every day: download the PDF, open it, pick a printer, click print, walk back. Multiply that by every delivery slip, label, and invoice, and it becomes hours.

OrbitPDF removes the whole detour by treating printing as infrastructure: machines become shared print stations, documents route by rules you control, and every page prints as a tracked job you can audit.

No Cloud Relay No IoT Box No Subscription Industry-Standard Adapter
The 30-Second Setup
1
Install QZ Tray
A small desktop app on the machine that owns the printers.
2
Open the Printer Manager
Every printer the machine can see appears, already tested.
3
Click Register
The machine becomes a print station for the whole team.
Live. Phones, tablets, and colleagues can print here.
Built the way Odoo is built
01 · A proven open standard
The print bridge is QZ Tray, open-source and industry-proven: a decade of printing, nothing else. Your IT can audit every line, and commercial support exists when you want it.
02 · Native automation rules
Print Scenarios generate standard Odoo Automation Rules. Enable one and you get a plain, editable rule, not a black box. Your admins already know how to extend it.
03 · Jobs, not fire-and-forget
Every print is a job with a lifecycle: queued, claimed, done, failed, or held for a human. Paper jams and offline stations are handled, never silently swallowed.
As wide as your OS
Every printer the operating system can see
No compatibility list to check, because the list is your OS. Office lasers print through the driver; receipt and label hardware gets spoken to in its own language, driverless:
PDF · any driver printer ESC/POS · receipts ZPL · Zebra EPL · Eltron SBPL · SATO PGL · Printronix PDF rastered to thermal · no driver at all
USB · network · WiFi · Bluetooth. Windows, macOS, and Linux stations, on Intel or ARM, down to a Raspberry Pi.
As short as your LAN
The shortest path a document can take
Click, LAN, paper. A cloud relay adds two internet trips to every single document; OrbitPDF adds zero, so speed scales with your network, not with someone's server load. Large batches ship in slices, and every job is signed before it travels.
Pair it with OrbitPDF Engine and the rendering itself is benchmarked at up to 24× wkhtmltopdf: the whole pipeline moves at hardware speed.
Both claims are testable in the live demo above, on your own printer.

# Three Ways to Print From Odoo

You have tried more than one way to print from Odoo, yet you are still reading. That usually means each one solved a slice and stopped: cloud relays brought zero-touch convenience, agent apps brought local control at a one-time price. Both were milestones, both partial. OrbitPDF covers the whole path in one system: it keeps the local-first economics, replaces the closed agent with an open standard, and adds the layer both generations skipped, an operational one that tracks every job to paper. Compare the three architectures dimension by dimension:

The adapter question nobody asks out loud
Every direct-print tool runs on one desktop bridge, and that bridge is where your trust actually lives.
Odoo The desktop bridge Your printers
A vendor's companion app
✕  Closed source, a black box
✕  A socket on every desk
✕  One vendor's side project
QZ Tray, OrbitPDF's bridge
✓  Open source, auditable
✓  A decade of public scrutiny
✓  Prints only what Odoo signed
Dimension Cloud Print Relays Proprietary Agent Apps OrbitPDF Direct Print 2.0
Cost Over Time Subscription + Quotas One-time Purchase One-time + Open-Source Bridge
Document Path Vendor Cloud (WAN) Local Network LAN Only, Zero Egress
Internet Outage Printing Stops Printing Continues Continues + Wake Queue
Staying Reachable Cloud-Mapped Account Pinned to a Fixed IP Zero Network Setup
Print Client Managed Cloud Agent Closed Vendor App Open Standard (QZ Tray)
Bridge Pedigree Provider's Cloud Agent One Vendor's Companion App Decade-mature, Publicly Audited
Fleet Model Per-account Mapping Per-device Setup Shared Print Stations
Phones & Tablets Via Cloud Account Companion App Required Any Browser, No App
When a Print Fails Fire and Forget Fire and Forget Retry + Held for a Human
Audit Trail On the Provider's Side App-dependent Full Job Ledger in Odoo
Request Security Account API Key Vendor-defined PKI-signed per Job
Print Automation Vendor Rule Engine Vendor Rule Engine Native Odoo Automation Rules
The bill that never arrives
A ten-station warehouse on a cloud relay pays every month, forever, and again for every document past the quota. OrbitPDF is a one-time purchase on top of open-source infrastructure that runs entirely on your hardware. The difference compounds every year you operate.
The failure nobody notices
With fire-and-forget printing, an offline station means labels that simply never appear, and nobody knows until a shipment is late. OrbitPDF queues the job, alerts an admin, and prints the backlog the moment the station wakes up.
24+
ready-made print scenarios
5
raw printer languages, driverless
3
steps from install to first page
0
monthly fees or print quotas
Pillar 1 · Routing

# Print From Anywhere, Land Exactly Right

Print Stations
Any machine running QZ Tray becomes a shared print station in one click. Its printers serve the whole team: a phone in the yard prints to the desk in the office.
odoo-warehouse STATION
Printer Rules That Learn
Quotes to the office laser, labels to the label printer, per user. Tick Remember when OrbitPDF asks you to pick, and the rule writes itself. No settings screen to maintain.
PDF Quote PDF_Printer
Where Will It Print?
The routing inspector answers before you print: pick any document, see the printer it lands on and which setting decided that. Wrong-printer surprises end here.
Office_Laser via My rule for this report
Not just reports
Print any attachment, straight from the chatter
A Direct print button sits on every file attached to a record, right next to Download. A carrier shipping label from your delivery connector, an e-signed PDF, an uploaded ZPL file: one click sends the exact bytes to the right printer, routed, held, and audited like any other job. The label prints at the packing desk without anyone opening a download.
Carrier shipping labels Signed PDFs ZPL files Images
Attachment in the chatter
PDF
ShippingLabel_DHL.pdf
91 KB
Download Direct print Delete
Direct print (highlighted) lands next to Download and Delete.
Pillar 2 · Automation

# The Busywork Prints Itself

A Catalog of One-Click Scenarios
Curated automations for the documents operations actually print, each one click from live. These ship in the box:
Delivery Slip on Transfer validation Lot/Serial label on creation Package label on Put in Pack Invoice on posting Receipt Operations on validation Sales Order on confirmation Purchase Order on confirmation Production Order on confirmation Backorder document on creation + your own, built in a form
Native Underneath, Editable Forever
Enabling a scenario generates a standard Odoo Automation Rule, not a black box. Your admins can open it, extend it, and filter it like any rule they already know.
Rehearse Before You Trust
The test-fire button runs the exact production path against the newest matching record. The test job routes, holds, and gets remembered like a real one, so your test prints are the setup.
Pillar 3 · Operations

# Run It Like Infrastructure

A Real Job Lifecycle, With Receipts
Every print is a job: queued, claimed by exactly one machine, then done, failed, or held for a human. The audit records the physical device each sheet came out of, and any job reprints in one click.
21:39DONEQuotation / Order: Office_Laser
16:20QUEUEDPackage Barcode: Warehouse_Desk
14:05FAILEDPRO-FORMA Invoice: Office_Laser
13:31DONELot/Serial Number: Zebra_ZT411
11:52HELDDelivery Slip: pick a printer
11:47DONEReceipt Operations: Warehouse_Desk
10:15DONEPDF Quote: PDF_Printer
09:02DONEDelivery Slip: Packing_Desk
Held, Never Lost
An unroutable job parks for a human instead of failing silently, pinned with an alert until someone decides. Admins also get a badge when a station goes dark with work queued.
Trusted Printing, PKI-Signed
Your Odoo signs every print request with its own keypair; QZ Tray verifies and prints without nagging prompts. Certificates are managed from the Printer Manager.
QZ Tray · connected · Trusted
Receipt, Label & Page Printers
PDF reports render through the printer driver. Raw languages go straight to the metal, driverless, and OrbitPDF detects each printer's language to pick the right test page by itself.
ESC/POS ZPL EPL SBPL PGL PDF
Multi-Company, Group-Fenced
Stations, printers, scenarios, and jobs respect company walls out of the box, with shared infrastructure when one print room serves every entity. Station access narrows to the user groups you choose, enforced when the job is queued.
From click to paper
Every step runs inside your own network, and lands in the audit trail.
1 · Odoo decides
A user hits Print, or an enabled scenario fires on its own. Routing rules resolve the target printer.
2 · A job is born
Queued, PKI-signed, and recorded: document, requester, target device, all frozen for the audit.
3 · A station claims it
Exactly one machine wins the claim, over your LAN. Asleep? The job waits and prints on wake.
4 · Paper, proven
QZ Tray verifies the signature and prints. The job closes with the exact physical device on record.
A Tuesday at the warehouse
What "reliable" actually means, hour by hour. Watch what happens when things go wrong.
09:02
A packer validates transfer WH/OUT/00042 on a scanner tablet. The delivery slip is printing at the packing desk before they look up. Nobody touched a print dialog.
11:47
The label printer jams mid-batch. The stale job requeues automatically and no duplicate labels come out; the audit knows which sheets were already sent.
11:52
A printer nobody re-plugged after cleaning takes a job that cannot route. Instead of vanishing, the job parks as held and pins itself at the top of every admin's manager with an alert.
11:55
An admin resolves it from their phone, picks the spare printer, and ticks Remember. The backlog prints, and the routing rule that failed has just taught itself the fix.
17:00
End of day, the job history reads like a flight recorder: every document, every decision, every physical device. That is the difference between a print button and print infrastructure.

# One Family, The Whole Path to Paper

Printing is really two problems wearing one name: building the document and getting it onto paper. Most tools solve half and leave you to duct-tape the rest. The OrbitPDF family covers the whole path with independent modules that snap together, one design language, one support inbox.

Three layers, one pipeline
1 · Rendering
The document is built
QWeb reports become PDF at native speed on the PlutoPrint core; raw ZPL and ESC/POS payloads are built for label and receipt hardware.
2 · Orchestration
Odoo decides and remembers
Routing rules, the job queue, retries, held decisions, and the audit ledger live inside your database, editable like anything else in Odoo.
Powered by OrbitPDF Direct Print
3 · Execution
Stations put it on paper
PKI-verified QZ Tray stations claim jobs over your LAN and hand the bytes to physical printers. Nothing crosses the internet.
Powered by OrbitPDF Direct Print
The Rendering Core
OrbitPDF Engine
The next-generation HTML-to-PDF engine on PlutoPrint. Production-grade rendering, watermarking built in, an order of magnitude faster than wkhtmltopdf.
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The Drop-in Upgrade
OrbitPDF Fast Report
The lean path to faster reports: replaces wkhtmltopdf in production with pre-calibrated patches for every standard Odoo layout. Install and print.
View on Odoo Apps
The Delivery Layer You are here
OrbitPDF Direct Print
Print stations, one-click automations, and the full job audit trail. Takes any document, from any engine, and puts it on the right printer instantly.
Independent by design
No module in the family requires another; each one earns its place alone. Direct Print delivers documents from any rendering engine, including stock wkhtmltopdf, and the engines render for any delivery path, including plain downloads. Install the pieces you need today and add the rest when the friction tells you to.

Can I see it working with my own printer before buying?

Yes, and that is the point of our live demo. Because the print bridge runs on your machine, the hosted demo database can print on the printer sitting next to you: install QZ Tray, open the demo's Printer Manager, walk the short setup card, and press Test. In a few minutes you know exactly how it behaves with your hardware, your labels, and your network, before spending anything. The demo address is at the top of this page.

Very likely, and it is worth settling before you buy. Every scenario is a print action combined with a filter, built on native Odoo automation rules, so most requests are a small configuration rather than custom development. Tell us the workflow you need before purchasing: we confirm together whether it fits, and any scenario we agree is in scope, we add during your first three months of support. If something needs deeper work, we say so plainly up front, never after the sale.

Every purchase includes three months of support directly from the author, starting on your purchase date. It covers installation help, configuration questions, fixes for any genuine defect, and the print scenarios we agree are in scope. Fixes and updates within your Odoo 19 major version are included for the same period, and support is handled by the people who built the module, by email. Two things sit outside it, and we always tell you which is which before any work starts: custom development beyond the module's scope, and upgrades to a future major Odoo version.

They are two independent modules of the same family, and neither requires the other. OrbitPDF Engine is the rendering layer: it builds your PDF reports fast. OrbitPDF Direct Print is the delivery layer: it puts documents on physical printers, whatever engine rendered them. Install both and you get the full pipeline from record to paper; install either alone and it does its whole job.

No hardware beyond the computers you already have. Any machine that can see your printers becomes a print station. Documents travel over your local network only, so printing keeps working even when the internet connection does not, and your business documents never pass through anyone's cloud.

QZ Tray is an open-source print bridge for Windows, macOS, and Linux that talks to every printer the operating system can see. It has done nothing but printing for over a decade, is widely adopted across industries, and its source is open for your IT to audit, so the component that touches your printers is never a black box. The open-source edition covers everything OrbitPDF uses: we integrate against its official signing contract, so the connection is trusted and prompt-free. QZ also offers commercial support directly, so a dedicated team stands behind the bridge whenever your organization wants one. OrbitPDF works the same either way.

Every printer your operating system can print to: office lasers, thermal receipt printers, and label printers over USB, network, WiFi, or Bluetooth. Any QWeb PDF report prints through the driver pipeline. Raw formats print driverless: ESC/POS for receipts, ZPL, EPL, SBPL, and PGL for labels. Pre-rendered attachments (PDF, ZPL, images) print too.

Yes to all three. OrbitPDF is a standard Odoo 19 module with no external service dependencies. Community and Enterprise are both supported; on Odoo.sh and any hosted setup, the server side installs normally while QZ Tray runs on the machines that do the printing, inside your own network.

Yes, that is exactly what print stations are for. The phone does not need to see the printer; it only needs Odoo. A worker validates a transfer on a tablet, the job routes to the warehouse station, and the label prints at the packing desk. If the station machine is asleep, the job waits and prints the moment it wakes.

No. There is no fixed address to keep alive and no network settings to maintain: the print bridge runs on the same machine as the printer, so a reboot or a new router IP changes nothing. The connection re-establishes itself, and any jobs that queued while a station was down print the moment it comes back.

Every print is a job record with its full story: who requested it, which document, which printer and station, what happened, and when. Failures show up with their error, jobs that lost their machine are retried or held for a decision, and admins get an attention badge when a station goes dark with work queued. Reprint any job in one click; the audit keeps both walks.

Yes. The print bridge runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, on Intel and ARM alike, so a Raspberry Pi wired to your label or receipt printer makes a solid, low-cost station. Register it once and it serves the whole team like any other machine.

No. Each license covers a single project or database, with unlimited stations, printers, and users inside it. If you run several Odoo databases or deploy for several clients, you need a separate purchase for each one. Reselling or redistributing the module is not permitted.

# Who We Are

Sveltware Solutions is a small studio building premium extensions for the Odoo backend. We work close to the metal, its OwlJS layer, rendering pipeline, and extension points, so we can change how Odoo feels without touching what keeps it stable: we build on the framework's own hooks, never override its internals.

Not one add-on but a connected ecosystem, themes, list and kanban tools, faceted search, printing, activity, and AI, under one design language. Every module is plug-and-play: zero config, no schema changes, clean uninstall, and proven on production-scale data.

It is built to be looked at, too: Apple-grade spacing, a flat-premium finish, strict WCAG 2.2. Our standard is effectiveness first, every module earns its place by making real work faster, and so does our support, replies in minutes, not a next-day queue.

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# How We Build

Six standards every Sveltware module must pass before it ships:

01 · Architecture
Extend, Never Override
We hook into Odoo's official extension points instead of monkey-patching internals. Standard views, workflows, and other modules keep working exactly as before.
02 · Data Safety
Fully Reversible
No schema rewrites, no data migration, no leftovers. Removing one of our modules returns your database to exactly the state it was in before.
03 · Onboarding
Zero Configuration
Install and use. Our modules read your existing setup, attributes, views, and access rights, instead of asking you to rebuild it in a settings screen.
04 · Performance
Fast on Real Data
We test against large, production-shaped databases, not demo data. Indexed domains, client-side caching, and lazy loading are the default, not an afterthought.
05 · Design
Native and Accessible
Every interface follows Odoo's native design language and meets WCAG 2.2: full keyboard support, real focus states, and contrast that holds up in light and dark mode.
06 · Longevity
Maintained Across Versions
We track Odoo's release cycle and update our suite for each major version, so upgrading Odoo never means abandoning the tools your team relies on.

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One family of modules, designed to work seamlessly together. Click any app to open it on the Odoo Apps store in a new tab.

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