Hi, I want to write a driver that will behave like a real printer but will send data on remote machine to another program that will print these data on physical printer. Thanks in advance.
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Hi, I want to write a driver that will behave like a real printer but will send data on remote machine to another program that will print these data on physical printer. Thanks in advance.
You should have expirience in C++ to do this. To communicate with hardware you will need to write VXD (virtual device drivers). See the DDK for info.
Do a search for RedMon (Redirection Monitor) - it acts as a printer port driver but will pass the data straight through to another program; you can write that program to accept the data on stdin and send it from there.
The most common use is for PostScript -> PDF conversion (use a PS printer driver, which outputs a load of PostScript. RedMon passes this through to GhostScript which (when you set the options as you need) outputs a PDF file. Dead simple. :)