"virtual" printer

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I've been wondering if anyone has ever seen software that works kind of like Adobe Acrobat but instead of creating a .PDF it just sends the print job to whatever is the default printer is on that machine?

I know it sounds weird but here's why I want to do this.

 

I recently came across an older Toshiba laser printer/ photocopier that doesn't have Vista PCL6 drivers and I was thinking there must be a way around it.

 

The*printer is*connected to an XP machine that's on the network and everyone in the building*uses it except for the one Vista machine because of the lack of drivers.

 

If I could install something like I described on the top of this post on the XP machine and share it on the network then the Vista machine could send the print job to*this "fake printer"*and then it would be sent the the default printer by the XP machine.

 

That would be extremely useful but I haven't found anything simple like that yet.

Maybe it can be done with GhostScript but it seems like a mess.

 

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