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Printer Emulators
Tres Finocchiaro edited this page Jan 27, 2017
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The high costs of printer hardware can make a developer's job difficult when designing a product which has printing capabilities. Various methods exist for printing to virtual printers which avoid the need to purchase physical hardware during the research and development phases of a project as well as baseline troubleshooting of functionality.
Printer emulation is a critical part of reducing the overhead associated with a development lifecycle.
| OS | Name | Pixel | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | PDFCreator | ✔️ | Download |
| Windows | PrimoPDF | ✔️ | Good alternative to PDFCreator |
| Windows | Microsoft XPS Document Writer | ✔️ | 600 dpi only; known to degrade image quality |
| Windows | Microsoft Print to PDF | ✔️ | 600 dpi only; known to degrade image quality |
| macOS | RWTS PDFwriter | ✔️ | Download |
| macOS | Lisanet PDFwriter | ✔️ | Requires workarounds for macOS 10.10+ |
| Linux | CUPS-PDF | ✔️ | Download via apt/dnf/etc |
| OS | Name | Raw | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | QPCPrint | ✔️ ESC/P | Download |
| Windows | Bematech | ✔️ ESC/Bema | Download (Portugese) |
| Windows | FILE: |
✔️ Raw | Configure, Inspect output using XVI32 hex editor |
| All | Labelary | ✔️ ZPL | Online only |