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What I need is to install a virtual "printer" device that will print a document sent to it using another printer in the system (specified in the settings).

There are a many virtual printers available to create PDF files but I couldn't find any that would be able to print the composed PDF (with another printer) automatically (without opening it in a PDF reader application) and remove the PDF file after this.

Do you happen to know about such a piece of software?

Extra functionality does not matter. The reason I need this is incompatibility of my actual printer driver with a particular use case (while virtual PDF printers work just fine in the same) and inapplicability of other solutions.

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    I am not sure whether or not there is already a solution to this but if not it is still possibly. I have used some called bullzip and that creates a PDF and saves it to a folder. You can set it so it has a predefined filename and folder. You can then create a fairly simple program (and run it in the background as a service) that can listen to a particular folder for pdf files and if one appears in there print it. If nobody else knows of a program that does this automatically maybe this would be the way to go. Aug 21, 2013 at 15:11
  • Nice idea, @RichardPowell. I actually use Bullzip PDF printer too. I consider it among the best of its kind and it's free.
    – Ivan
    Aug 21, 2013 at 19:39
  • Ivan, do you actually have adobe reader installed? Aug 22, 2013 at 14:16
  • Of course I do, @RichardPowell. Do you know a single Windows user who doesn't? :-)
    – Ivan
    Oct 28, 2013 at 19:53
  • I don't have it installed. I use foxit reader :P Oct 29, 2013 at 9:17

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I know it's a really old question - but I wonder if you ever found a solution or if the Bullzip PDF printer was your solution?

I'm also searching such a functionality - a virtual printer which does nothing else but forward all print jobs to another (configurable) printer in the system. I want it to only provide one tray (which is then also forwarded to a specific configured tray of the real printer) so that the user is not able to choose a different one.

Does such a thing exist or do I have to write my own printer driver for this? Of course nowadays it should also work at Windows 10 and 11, not only (but still) at Windows 7

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