Printersim: Achievement & Ending Guide

Welcome to my guide of Printersim. This guide will help you complete the game by providing hints, tips and tricks, while also outlining how to obtain all the achievements available. While this guide is not completely exhaustive, it is satisfactory enough to provide you with the knowledge to obtain all trophies and endings, and become more curious of the finer details this game has to offer.

I believe it’s best to play the game on your own without using any guides on your first play though. Get frustrated, experiment and try to do things on your own. Then, when you give up, make your character sleep until you can’t sleep anymore. Congratulations, you got your first ending. Now feel free to use this guide to get all the trophies and remaining endings.

The following information is very useful to help beat the game:1) You have 14 days to complete your objective. You are unable to print on your last day. I recommend to print as much as possible on your first day.

2) Using the screwdriver on each ink cartridge provides extra ink

3) To get the screwdriver, there are two methods:
-Pick up the fire in the fireplace and go to the freezer. Place the fire on the ice and you can remove the screwdriver.
-Go to the alcohol cabinet in the TV room. Open the cabinet below the framed golden record and remove the glasses (cups). Go to your bedroom and use the glasses on the red emergency cabinet and take the hairdryer. Use the hairdryer on the ice and remove the screwdriver.

4) Food should be microwaved before consuming to lower rage. Do not consume alcohol as that increases your rage.

5) Always have music playing on the background to reduce 5% rage. Some music increases your rage but the one that is already inserted in the CD player reduces rage.

6) Your day automatically ends if your printer health hits 0. So in the event your character rages on your printer, spam your mouse button to reduce damage. Buying the repair kit and proactively repairing it means you can have an extra long day and print more. You can minimise rage by ensuring your paper doesn’t run out. You can reduce the rage with empty inks by replacing your ink cartridges before the printer tries to print with it. If you can sell your ink cartridge for money, it means it has ink.

7) Sell your wife so she doesn’t take the fuses and increases your rage… plus when you sell her, she’s worth $1000! To do so, go to your room and remove the big closet on the wall to reveal a hole with coffee beans in it. Grab the coffee beans and put in the coffee dispenser. Turn on the coffee dispenser and wait until it overflows. Your wife will eventually clean it up. When she does, quickly drag her into the trash can for that sweet $$$

8) Selling albums do not increase rage.

9) Try to sell bigger ticket items such as the fridge, oven, entire kitchen.

10) There will be two scam emails. The first on day 5 and the second on day 13-14. Only fall for the first scam email. First, make sure you have less than $100 dollars and then open the scam email and send money. Go to the shop and buy something; your money will reset to $600.

11) Free ink cartridges can be won on the 7th day. Look at your email and select the ink cartridges as a prize and answer the questions correctly. Once you do, you’ll get 5 ink packs the following day. Answers to these questions will be in the achievement sections or you can find clues using the two magazines that are sent to your home as you progress the game.

Make The Cut: Solve the infamous scissor puzzle.
Grab a chair in the dining room and go to the area where the grandfather clock is. Drag the chair to the scissors and then you can remove it. Alternatively, you can grab the umbrella on the coat rack near the door and use that on the scissors to get it.

Professional Discounter: Get a discount at the shop.
Open your inventory and scroll to the very last page and you’ll find a discount card. Give it to the shop clerk and you’ll get a discount for regularly stocked items.

Rapid Divorce: Sell your wife.
Go to your bedroom and remove the big closet on the wall to reveal a hole with coffee beans in it. Grab the coffee beans and put in the coffee dispenser. Turn on the coffee dispenser and wait until it overflows. Your wife will eventually clean it up. When she does, quickly drag her into the trash can for that sweet $1000

Record Collector: Collect 8 records

There are 8 (9, but you need 8) records in total and to get the achievement you must have all records and tapes in your player.

1) Demo Music: On the bookcase
2) Bath Salts EP: On the bookcase
3) Printersim OST: Inside the CD player already
4) Gold Record: Use the Crowbar to break open the frame and remove the record
5) My Old Mixtape: It’s located under the bed.
6) Clerk’s Mixtape: Give the shop clerk the green book on the bookcase
7) CD: Buy it at the shop
8) Reel of Tape: Use the crowbar on the lifted floor board under the dining table. Remove the floor board and take out the mysterious package. Go to sleep and check the house door for a strange parcel and open it to reveal wire cutters. Use the wire cutters on the mysterious package to get the Reel of Tape and other things.

Flexitime Pioneer: Rip several items off the wall with the crowbar.
Use the crowbar located in the safe and remove things such as the kitchen counters, oven, bathtub etc… and sell it.

A Friend Til The End: Become friends with the printershop clerk.
Once you give the green book located on the bookcase you become friends.

It Ain’t Safe: Open the safe.
The safe is located behind the picture in the area with the grandfather clock. Remove the frame to reveal the safe. The code is 0621 which is the date of your wife’s birthday. To figure out this code normally, a weekly printer magazine hints that a good code is a birth date of a loved one. Go to your wife’s nightstand and examine the lock. It hints that a pin could unlock it. Go to your wife and ask her about the pin. Then shake her repeatedly until the pin drops and use it on her nightstand. You will find her journal and other things. One of entry will be about her birthday which is corresponds to the pin of the safe.

Diamonds Are Forever: Sell a diamond.
Go to the kitchen and you’ll notice a turkey sticking out of the oven. Put the turkey in your inventory, not your bag, and turn on the oven. Keep an eye on the turkey as it will begin to cook. You do not need to be in the kitchen for this. Eventually, the turkey will turn into a diamond. When this happens, you must sell it quickly or it’ll turn into ash.

The Depths Of Insanity: Sell your house. (New Ending)
Get the deed to the house inside the safe. Then, use the crowbar, screws and chair to help remove all fixtures in the house. You need to sell everything that you can. Lights, doors, baby, wife, your inventory and finally the deed. Then go to the washroom and grab the window and try to sell it. You should unlock one of the endings.

Microwave: Microwave 8 food items.
There are 6 items in the fridge that can be microwaved. Microwave the gelato and lastly the sandwich from the safe to have all 8 food items.

Obsessive Compulsion: Visit the printershop too many times.
Repeatedly visit the printershop in one day until you get the achievement.

Go With The Flow: Get your underflow fixed.
On day 5, you’ll receive a scam email about enlarging your tiny pecker. First, make sure you have less than $100 dollars and then open the scam email and send money by scrolling to the bottom and replying. Go to the shop and buy something. Your money will reset to $600.

Prepare The Sequel: Sell the postman.
Get the screwdriver and use it on your front door. Go to sleep and wait for the mailman to come. When you see him, quickly drag him to the trash bin. If you don’t see the mailman, try sleeping and checking each day until you see him.

Smooth Operator: Print the full report.
Print all 60 pages to get this achievement. On page 58/59, you’ll encounter a minigame. You can block with your right mouse button! Check the tips and tricks section to help print the full report.

Winner is you!: Win the game. (An ending)
Beat the game by going to the last day and talking on the phone.

Print-Fu Master: Acquire all the trophies.
Self explanatory.

Pet Rock: Win a rock.
On the 7th day, you’ll receive an email about a contest and one of the prizes you can pick is a rock. You will need to answer all 7 questions correctly in order to get the prize. After answering a correct answer, an email will ask you another question until you complete them all. Your prize will be sent the following day in a package next to your door. The answers to these questions come from the magazines, general observation and your email.

The answers as follows:
1) Cyan
2) Keeps the mind just right
3) Inkgun
4) 1953
5) Dormancy
6) Jonathan Smithe
7) Carl from Peckham

Company Occulture: Perform the ritual of the Prince.
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???: ??? (New Ending)

If you only want the Company Occulture trophy, you only need to buy 1 Saffron and nothing else. You also do not need to pick up Another Book (red) on the bookshelf

This is a chain of events that occur and I will describe the steps by days. You do not need to do these starting all on day 1 but it takes about 4 days for the entire quest to finish.

Day 1: Go to the shop and buy 2 Saffron and an Ink Cartridge. Go to the safe and take out the Crowbar and use it on the loose floorboard. Sell the floorboard and take the Mysterious Package. Go to the kitchen and open the drawer underneath the microwave to obtain the Axe. Open the Ink Cartridge with your Axe. Congratulations, you chopped off your arm.

Day 2: You will receive a Strange Parcel that contains Wire Cutters. You can open the Mysterious Package with the Wire Cutters today revealing the Reel of Tape.

Day 4: If you still have the Saffron, on night 3 you will have a dream about a mysterious key and message. Once you’re awake, open your inventory and should have the Mysterious Key. Go to the grandfather clock and open the lock using the Mysterious Key. Take the book, Grimoire, and read it. Now, go to your cd player and put in the Reel of Tape and play it. Place the red book on the bookshelf in your inventory. Take your Saffron and throw it in the fireplace. If you did this correctly, your fire should turn into black “null”. Go to the room with the couch and sell the window and open and close the curtains until a door appears. Go inside the ??? until you see the glowing toilet. Throw in a Saffron and Another Book (red book) in the toilet. Go back to your bathroom and pick up the Symbol and Clean Grimoire. Read the Clean Grimoire and return to the ??? bathroom. Place the Severed Hand and Symbol on the closed door. Continue forward to get a new ending.

Think Inside The Box: Avoid your responsibilities (New Ending)
When you start the game, sell the key before opening your front door. This will prompt a phone call from the boss. Pick up the phone and a new ending is unlocked.

Circle Back: Fail the game. (New Ending)
Reach day 15 without 60 pages in any manner you want. You will get a scolding from your boss and the achievement will be unlocked.

Welcome Home: Wake up. (New Ending)
I am not 100% sure how to unlock this but I believe you have to unlock all other achievements first and then beat the game. I beat the game twice before getting all other achievements and did not unlock this. After getting all the other achievements, I beat the game again and got this unlocked as well as another ending.

There are a lot of hidden things in this game. I am not sure exactly what each item does… especially those you get after they are transformed. Nevertheless, I hope this guides helps you with your game play. If there is anything missed or incorrect, please let me know and I’ll update it with the correct information. Have fun.