It is a combination of a virtual printer and an application software for Microsoft Windows.

It works as a virtual printer.

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Typical uses of virtual printers include:

Besides being installed as a virtual printer, PDFCreator can be associated with .

Virtual printer drivers like GreenCloud Printer are designed to help save on paper and ink costs.

Its functional design mimics Adobe Acrobat Distiller to behave as a virtual printer.

In addition interfaces are provided for legacy applications and available end-user interfaces include e-mail, a Client, and virtual printer.

The virtual printer employs Ghostscript in order to translate the document into the Portable Document Format.

He was assigned as the chief software architect also managing development teams working on projects in different fields such as eforms conversion, virtual printer, object recognition, barcode, etc.

The Bullzip PDF Printer works by creating a virtual printer in the operating systems that prints to PDF files instead of paper.

Now on its 7th version, the server can handle an unlimited number of users, and may be accessed by a variety of means, including a virtual printer and supplied client software.

The user can tell his computer to "print" a document using a "virtual printer" which, instead of producing a paper printout, sends the document to the fax server, which then transmits it.

A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer.

Additionally, a large number of virtual printers use Ghostscript to create PDF files; for a non-exhaustive list, see List of virtual printer software.

PDF2XL Enterprise - Includes a virtual printer to allow converting from any Windows application that allows printing to Excel, in addition to multiple types of PDF files.

GreenCloud Printer is a PDF (Portable Document Format) converter/editor and eco-friendly virtual printer driver developed by European IT company ObviousIdea.

CC PDF Converter - A virtual printer that creates PDF files from any Windows application (that supports printing), optionally embedding a Creative Commons license in it.

Send to Microsoft OneNote, via which any application can print to a virtual printer for OneNote and the "printed" document is imported to the notebook, and any text is indexed for searching.

Ghostscript can also be used as a file format converter, such as PostScript to PDF converter; this is often combined with a PostScript printer driver in "virtual printer" PDF creators.

When a user requests that a document be "printed" by a virtual printer, then, instead of having the document printed on paper or other material, the underlying software would process its contents in some other way, often resulting in a file being produced or the information being transmitted.

At least one example of this technology creates a virtual printer on one computer which actually converts the document and sends it to a server on the WWW, from which the file can be printed to a printer attached to a PC in a remote location.

It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer.

Microsoft Office Document Image Writer - a virtual printer that takes documents from Microsoft Office or any other application and prints them, or stores them in an image file as TIFF or Microsoft Document Imaging Format format.

Users can create a PDF file by uploading their file via a web browser, printing to a virtual printer (a download for their local PC), or selecting a file to convert from the Tools pane in Adobe Reader X or XI.