network printer emulation

[Antonio Estrada Respeto]

I have a dedicated PC with a propietary software that prints documents at user demands on a Brother network printer. There is No way to install or modify the software installed in that PC. My question is about to emulate the Network Printer in which the propietary software prints the documents, using a device or a software that makes a virtual network printer that could replace the real network printer with it, printing the documents to a file, i.e. a pdf file. The way to make the replacement of the real network printer for the virtual one must be done in a selectable way. There is a software or a device that can do this?
The most PC equipment in my network is Windows XP and 7.
Thanks to all responders.

 

[bill001g]

If you have proprietary software involved you likely will have to write your own "print server" software yourself. If the proprietary software will take PDF files as input it should be a matter of, print the document to a PDF and save it on a network shared drive on the machine that has the special software. Then launch the print software and tell it to print that file. It likely could be automated but it has been years since I wrote scripts for windows.

 

[Antonio Estrada Respeto]

If you have proprietary software involved you likely will have to write your own "print server" software yourself. If the proprietary software will take PDF files as input it should be a matter of, print the document to a PDF and save it on a network shared drive on the machine that has the special software. Then launch the print software and tell it to print that file. It likely could be automated but it has been years since I wrote scripts for windows.

Thanks for your answer, but the question I make is about how to replace the network printer with a printer hardware emulator or a printer software emulator running in a PC of the network, in the way that the dedicated PC that prints in the network printer can see that emulation system (hardware or software) as it was the network printer that it replaces. I repeat, there is no way to install any software or hardware in the dedicated PC, and there is no configurable items in the attached software or a viewable Operative System running in it.