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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. |
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Printer Drivers
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 |
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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. |
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