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Digital Printing vs PDFCrowd PDF Export

Digital Printing is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by danielrosehill. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). PDFCrowd PDF Export is an MCP server published by pdfcrowd. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-20. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.

Where each is published

Where each is published
MarketplaceDigital PrintingPDFCrowd PDF Export
Community marketplace danielrosehill/claude-code-plugins Listed
Version: 1.0.0
Forks (GitHub): 0
Stars (GitHub): 1
Not marked · First seen
Not listed
Official MCP Registry Not listed Listed
Version: 1.2.2
Downloads/month (npm): 225
Downloads/week (npm): 47
Forks (GitHub): 0
Stars (GitHub): 2
Not marked · First seen

Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

The facts side by side

Digital Printing vs PDFCrowd PDF Export
FactDigital PrintingPDFCrowd PDF Export
Marketplaces that list it11
Stars (GitHub) (differs)1 (worse)2 (better)
Forks (GitHub)00
Last releaseNot publishedNot published
Where it runs (differs)Installs as a plugin bundleOn your machine (pdfcrowd-mcp-pdf-export)
Transport (differs)Not statedstdio
Tools it declaresNot publishedNot published
Environment variables it asks for (differs)Not published2, secrets among them: 1
Parts of the bundle (differs)22Not a bundle
LicenceMITMIT
Repository (differs)github.com/danielrosehill/claude-digital-printing-plugingithub.com/pdfcrowd/pdfcrowd-mcp-pdf-export
Changes in the last 7 days (differs)24
First seen (differs)2026-10-152026-10-11

Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.

What each says it does

Digital Printing

In its own words, on Community GitHub marketplaces:

Skills and an orchestrator agent for preparing PDFs for digital printing — resize, grayscale, font embedding, transparency flattening, image downsampling, color normalization, watermarks, footer burn-ins, cover pages, bleed-safety check, job folders, formal print orders, and email/Drive share.

PDFCrowd PDF Export

In its own words, on Official MCP Registry:

Create polished, professional PDFs from a single prompt. Documentation, reports, charts, and more.

How to run each

Digital Printing As a Claude Code plugin

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add danielrosehill/claude-code-plugins
/plugin install digital-printing@danielrosehill

PDFCrowd PDF Export As a local MCP server: npm package

Claude Code
claude mcp add --env "PDFCROWD_API_KEY=<YOUR_PDFCROWD_API_KEY>" --transport stdio pdfcrowd-mcp-pdf-export -- npx -y pdfcrowd-mcp-pdf-export

Requires: PDFCROWD_API_KEY (secret)

Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.

Tools each declares

Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.

Settings each asks for

The marketplaces of Digital Printing publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.

What it can do: Digital Printing · What it can do: PDFCrowd PDF Export · Compare two other plugins

Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.

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