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I have a shared printer where all the file gets printed in Network.

I want an application that save all the file when sending for printing to the computer where shared printer installed.

Or i can say, Save all files in a perticular folder before it gets printed by shared printer.

These file may be pdf, word, excel etc.

Please Advice

Posted 16-Jun-13 23:58pm

Udai Mathur

Updated 17-Jun-13 0:55am

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Nelek 17-Jun-13 6:35am

Sorry, but you question is not informative enough to help you.
Do you want an application to run in the "printing-server" to detect incoming all / only some files and save them? or do you want your application to save a file when sending something to print to that computer?

Sunasara Imdadhusen 17-Jun-13 6:53am

Please provide more details, so we can give you proper answer

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Stephen Hewison · Answer 1 · 2013-06-17T11:41:00

Solution 1

Take a look at this software.

It's like a multiplexer for printing.

You create a print proxy which then forwards documents to multiple prints.

One of those can be a PDF printer.

http://www.frogmorecs.com/[^]

Or if XPS is an acceptable format it has a built in XPS passthrough printer driver.

Posted 17-Jun-13 11:41am

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Udai Mathur 18-Jun-13 5:42am

Thanks for your reply. Sir can we do it in C# .NET. My requirment is very simple.
I need to save all those file which are going to be printed by shared printer.

The location of file for saving would be that computer where shared printer installed.

Stephen Hewison 18-Jun-13 6:10am

Your requirement is to write a virtual printer driver which isn't simple at all. My advice would be to use the tool I showed you to write the file out to a user specific location and then map a network drive to that user as part of your group policy. Alternately you could purchase 1 license per user and install and configure it on each end user machine.

Stephen Hewison 18-Jun-13 6:12am

Although that said. If you must do it in .Net it will require you to write a lot of unsafe code plug in to the Win32 API. The following article describes exactly what you're trying to do in a little more detail. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257768/writing-a-virtual-printer-in-net