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How can I emulate a 'fake' printer (driver) in Windows?

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Mar 15, 202654848 views

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For testing, my application needs to send a document to the printer. I don't really want to print this out, so I am looking for a 'fake' printer driver which could essentially print to nothing. I know that nul exists, but I also need the fake printer to support pausing. Any idea if the nul port can…

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Create a new printer and set its port to NUL: You will need to add a new local port and just type where it asks for port name.

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