I am looking for a virtual printer (other an a PDF writer) for testing
purposes. Does anyone have any good suggestions?

I am testing a C# app (monitors print queues) and I am printing
several print jobs quickly in my testing. I am tired of wasting ink/
toner and paper and I was hoping there was a [free?] virtual printer
out there that didn't require me to save every print job to a file.

Hopefully, this printer can just accept jobs and pretend to print
them.

Thanks in advance for any help.

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:55:01 -0800, TCorp wrote:

> I am looking for a virtual printer (other an a PDF writer) for testing
> purposes. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
>
> I am testing a C# app (monitors print queues) and I am printing several
> print jobs quickly in my testing. I am tired of wasting ink/ toner and
> paper and I was hoping there was a [free?] virtual printer out there
> that didn't require me to save every print job to a file.
>
> Hopefully, this printer can just accept jobs and pretend to print them.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.

You don't say which operating system, or which version.



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Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org

On Nov 17, 12:32*pm, Bob Eager <rd...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:55:01 -0800,TCorpwrote:
> > I am looking for a virtualprinter(other an a PDF writer) for testing
> > purposes. *Does anyone have any good suggestions?
>
> > I am testing a C# app (monitors print queues) and I am printing several
> > print jobs quickly in my testing. *I am tired of wasting ink/ toner and
> > paper and I was hoping there was a [free?] virtualprinterout there
> > that didn't require me to save every print job to a file.
>
> > Hopefully, thisprintercan just accept jobs and pretend to print them.
>
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> You don't say which operating system, or which version.
>
> --
> Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
> *http://www.mirrorservice.org


Windows XP or Vista pls.

On 2009-11-17, TCorp <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am looking for a virtual printer (other an a PDF writer) for testing
> purposes. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
>
> I am testing a C# app (monitors print queues) and I am printing
> several print jobs quickly in my testing. I am tired of wasting ink/
> toner and paper and I was hoping there was a [free?] virtual printer
> out there that didn't require me to save every print job to a file.
>
> Hopefully, this printer can just accept jobs and pretend to print
> them.

In the past I've built loopback plugs for parallel ports than look
as if they are accepting data when they are in fact discarding it.
If you still have a parallel port on your machine that may be one
way to go. Let me know if interested and I'll try digging out (or
resynthesising) the wiring arrangement.

--
Andrew Smallshaw
(E-Mail Removed)

Install a printer contained in Windows (e.g. HP Colorlaserjet ...), use
a fix file name as a new "Local Port" e.g. c:\temp\output.prn and
prevent the jobs from beeing deleted (Advanced printer options).
Now every job to the printer will override the fix file without user
intervention but the jobs stay in the queue.
If they were spooled in EMF format, which is normally the case, the
SPLViewer can be used to view (and optionally print) the jobs.
A nearly completed version in english language is available under

http://www.lvbprint.de/bin/new/SplViewSetup.exe

It is free for all purpose.

Dieter


TCorp wrote:
> I am looking for a virtual printer (other an a PDF writer) for testing
> purposes. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
>
> I am testing a C# app (monitors print queues) and I am printing
> several print jobs quickly in my testing. I am tired of wasting ink/
> toner and paper and I was hoping there was a [free?] virtual printer
> out there that didn't require me to save every print job to a file.
>
> Hopefully, this printer can just accept jobs and pretend to print
> them.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.

On Nov 21, 7:09*pm, Andrew Smallshaw <andr...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> In the past I've built loopback plugs for parallel ports than look
> as if they are accepting data when they are in fact discarding it.
> If you still have a parallel port on your machine that may be one
> way to go. *Let me know if interested and I'll try digging out (or
> resynthesising) the wiring arrangement.

Yes! That sounds really useful! Do you have the pin outs for that?