Sperry Software Auto Print Alternative: Retire the Fragile Outlook Add-In
Hunting for a Sperry Software Auto Print alternative? AutoPrintEmail is a standalone desktop app — no add-in bitness issues, no Outlook babysitting. Gmail, Outlook, IMAP.
Why People Go Looking for a Sperry Auto Print Alternative
Nobody searches "Sperry Software Auto Print alternative" on a good day. You search it after the third time Outlook quietly disabled the add-in and you found out because a customer called asking where their order went. Let's name the actual problems, then look at the way out.
Sperry Software builds Outlook add-ins, and Outlook add-ins all inherit the same fragility. Outlook "protects itself" by disabling add-ins it suspects of causing slowdowns — your printing just stops, silently, until you dig through settings and re-enable it. Windows and Office updates are the other recurring trigger: Sperry's own blog has documented update-induced breakage, and their support pages cover the classic 32-bit vs 64-bit trap — install the wrong bitness for your Outlook and the add-in tab simply disappears. None of this is Sperry being careless. It's what living inside someone else's application costs.
Then there's the catalog. Auto Print at $99.95, Auto Print Pro at $149.95 for the rules-based version, Print on Demand also at $149.95 with a different feature mix — figuring out which one you need is homework, and the licenses include two years of updates, with updates costing extra after that. And of course the structural constraint underneath it all: Outlook only, and Outlook must be open, on a computer that never sleeps, for any of it to run.
Add it up and the pattern is clear: every individual issue is fixable, but the fixing never ends, and it always lands on you at the worst time — after an update, on a Monday, with orders waiting. People don't leave Sperry because one thing broke. They leave because they're tired of being the person who re-enables the add-in.
What AutoPrintEmail Does Differently
AutoPrintEmail is a standalone desktop app for Windows and Mac. It connects straight to your mailbox — Gmail, Outlook/Microsoft 365, or any IMAP provider, using modern OAuth2 authentication — and prints matching emails and attachments on its own. There's no add-in to be disabled, no bitness to match, no host application whose updates can take your printing down with them. When Outlook updates, nothing happens to your printing, because Outlook was never involved.
The rules-based printing that made Auto Print Pro the "pro" product is just... included. Filter by sender, subject, or attachment, route different matches to different printers, and leave everything else unprinted. One product, all features — no comparing three SKUs to work out which combination covers your use case. For a category-level explainer of how this works, see email-to-print software.
Pricing is one line: $14.99/month, or $199 once for a lifetime license with free updates forever — no "two years included, then pay again." The free 3-day trial means you can prove it works on your printer before spending anything. And a privacy note that add-in users rarely think about until they leave Outlook: the app runs on your machine and your email content never routes through our cloud.
When Sperry Software Is Still the Better Fit
Fair is fair — Sperry has been making Outlook add-ins for years and they know their niche. Stick with them if:
- Your setup has been stable, updates haven't bitten you, and you have no reason to touch what works.
- You specifically want printing controlled from inside the Outlook interface, and Outlook is open on that machine all day regardless.
- You already use several other Sperry add-ins and value keeping one vendor for all of them.
But if unattended reliability is the whole point of auto-printing — orders printing overnight, on weekends, with nobody around to re-enable a disabled add-in — the standalone architecture wins on structure, not marketing. The detailed feature-by-feature comparison is at AutoPrintEmail vs Sperry Software Auto Print.
Switching from Sperry Auto Print: 5 Steps
Install AutoPrintEmail
Download the free 3-day trial and install on the computer wired to your printer. There is no bitness decision to make — one installer per platform.
Connect your email account
Sign in with Gmail, Outlook/Microsoft 365, or IMAP via OAuth2. The connection is to the mail server itself, independent of the Outlook desktop app.
Rebuild your print rules
Recreate your Auto Print Pro rules as AutoPrintEmail filters: sender, subject, attachment conditions, target printer. Write down your Sperry rules first so nothing gets lost.
Send a test email
Fire a message that matches each rule and confirm it lands on paper. If you run both tools briefly in parallel, duplicated prints are your success signal.
Disable the add-in
Remove the Sperry add-in from Outlook and skip the next update renewal. Outlook gets lighter; your printing stops depending on it.
Download the free trial and run the whole switch this afternoon — most people finish before step 4 stops being fun.
Weighing other options?
If MAPILab Print Tools is also on your shortlist, it shares Sperry's add-in architecture — and the same escape hatch: see the MAPILab Print Tools alternative page. Coming at this from a developer angle instead? The PrintNode alternative page covers the API-platform side of the market.
Frequently Asked Questions
AutoPrintEmail is the closest like-for-like alternative that removes the add-in dependency: a standalone Windows/Mac desktop app that connects to Gmail, Outlook/Microsoft 365, or IMAP and auto-prints matching emails and attachments using filter rules — including the rules-based routing that Sperry sells as the separate Auto Print Pro product.
No. AutoPrintEmail doesn't run inside Outlook, so Outlook and Office updates can't disable it, and there's no 32-bit vs 64-bit matching to get wrong. It connects to your mail server directly via OAuth2 and keeps printing whether Outlook is open, closed, or mid-update.
With Sperry you choose between Auto Print ($99.95, basic) and Auto Print Pro ($149.95, rules-based). AutoPrintEmail is one product with filtering and rules included — match sender, subject, or attachment and route to any printer — so there's no SKU puzzle.
Sperry licenses include two years of updates, with updates costing extra afterwards. AutoPrintEmail is $14.99/month or $199 once for a lifetime license with free updates forever, plus a free 3-day trial to test on your own printer first.
Yes. It connects directly to your email provider, so it works on machines that have never had Outlook installed — including Macs — and with non-Microsoft mailboxes like Gmail or any IMAP account.
No. AutoPrintEmail runs on your own computer and your email content never routes through our cloud. Messages are fetched locally and go straight from your machine to your printer.
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