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Asked: 2026-05-16T02:41:57+00:00

I want to create a software which can accept Print Jobs from other computers,

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I want to create a software which can accept Print Jobs from other computers, and then route those print jobs to PCs on LAN with printers attached.

How it’s going to happen ->
1- When that software called “Virtual Printer” is installed on a computer “X”, Windows should think that it is a print driver/attached printer to that computer.
2- Then administrator of that PC goes to “Devices and Printers” in windows and select the “Virtual Printer”, right click and view properties and select the check box “Share this printer”
3- Now other PCs on the LAN can see that there is a shared printer call “Virtual printer” in the LAN connected to the computer “X”
4- So they can send print jobs to this “Virtual Printer”, by selecting “Virtual Printer” when they need to print something.

How can I write this program (possibly c#) to Appear itself as a printer to the Windows, and then Accept incoming print jobs and send them to desired computers with printers attached.

I don’t have any idea how to code this thing, and I don’t have knowledge either, please help me with some resources, codes or sample projects or at least samples similar to this.
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  1. Editorial Team

    Looking back at my first answer in the light of your original question, I do no longer understand why I put so much emphasize on a “convert incoming job to an image”-stage. Probably because you had mentioned in one of your answers that you wanted a functionality similar to imageprinter.

    Anyway, since you now made clear that your main goal is to forward all incoming jobs to other computers (which have the real printers installed) — this can also be achieved with:

    • a print queue with a PostScript driver
    • Ghostscript
    • RedMon as port monitor for the print queue
    • a DOS batch script

    The difference now is twofold:

    1. now you don’t setup RedMon/Ghostscript in a way that converts incoming PostScript to an image format.
    2. now you setup RedMon to run Ghostscript in a way that routes the job through the real target queue ‘sharedprintername’ at ‘remotecomputer’ (including real driver).

    The Ghostscript command would be similar to:

      gswin32c.exe ^
   -dNOPAUSE ^
   -dBATCH ^
   -dQUIET ^
   -sDEVICE=mswinpr2 ^
   -dNoCancel ^
   -sOutputFile="%%printer%%\\remotecomputer\sharedprintername" ^
   -        ### <-- note this '-' !
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