Printer Drivers

Something I always about. When I start to print something my system
also shows some printer drivers that I don't understand what they are
used for.They a
FOXIT PDF Printer Driver
FOXIT Reader PDF Driver
Microsoft XPS Document Writer

I have printers installed on my system:
Brother HL-5370DW
Brother PT-2430PC
Cannon iP2600

There obviously drivers for each of these but what function do the other
drivers serve.

Marv wrote:
Something I always about. When I start to print something my system
also shows some printer drivers that I don't understand what they are
used for.They a
FOXIT PDF Printer Driver
FOXIT Reader PDF Driver
Microsoft XPS Document Writer

I have printers installed on my system:
Brother HL-5370DW
Brother PT-2430PC
Cannon iP2600

There obviously drivers for each of these but what function do the other
drivers serve.

They are "Print To File" type drivers.

If you print to PDF for example, then you end
up with a PDF file you can email as an attachment.
Or, view on your own screen at a later date
(with the free Acrobat Reader program).
It allows sending copies of documents, without
providing "source". The editable document, stays
with you. You can also print from the PDF, and the
image on the sheet of paper should be identical.

PDFs have permission bits, and you can set various
security settings in a PDF. I don't know how you
go about doing that, from the print driver. You can
try the driver preferences, and see if there are any
settings I suppose.

Paul

On 3/3/2014 7:56 PM, Marv wrote:
Something I always about. When I start to print something my system
also shows some printer drivers that I don't understand what they are
used for.They a
FOXIT PDF Printer Driver
FOXIT Reader PDF Driver
Microsoft XPS Document Writer

I have printers installed on my system:
Brother HL-5370DW
Brother PT-2430PC
Cannon iP2600

There obviously drivers for each of these but what function do the other
drivers serve.

These is are "Print" drivers. they create PDF files, when you "print"
to a PDF printer, They create a PDF file in the location you specify of
the document you print.

There are many good free PDF printers like Sourceforge's PDF Creator and
CutePDF writer. I use the PDF printers more than I use paper, because
I can print from ANY program. This means that if I order something
online I can print the purchase order and confirmation to PDF files and
file it in the appropriate folder on my Hard drive. Using PDF Creator
mentioned above I can put both document into the same file even if there
are days between the time I receive them.


The Microsoft XPS Document Writer I believe is a printer that will print
any document to a file from which you can copy any image text as text
you can use in any text processing program, ie word processors,
spreadsheets, fill in forms. It has a built in OCR function, that will
read the image text, as that from a scanner.