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Software for connecting to a printer
computers, a printer driver or a print processor is a piece of software on a computer that converts the data to be printed to a format that a printer can understand
Printer_driver
(Universal Printer Driver or Unidriver) is a GDI-based Microsoft Windows universal printer driver and architecture for non-PostScript printers. It is used
Unidrv
Computer peripheral that prints text or graphics
code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal
Printer_(computing)
Page description language
being sent to a printer. PCL 6 Enhanced is designed to match the drawing model of Windows GDI. In this way, the Windows printer driver simply passes through
Printer_Command_Language
ODBC, standard interface for accessing database systems
linked, and the driver passes the query to the DBMS. An ODBC driver can be thought of as analogous to a printer driver or other driver, providing a standard
Open_Database_Connectivity
Software interface to attached devices
Microcontroller Open-source hardware Printer driver Replicant (operating system) udev (userspace /dev) "What is all device driver?". WhatIs.com. TechTarget. Archived
Device_driver
Microsoft Windows API
computer's printer driver receives, processes, and sends to the associated printer. Communication between the computer's GDI and driver, and the printer, is
Graphics_Device_Interface
LaserJet print driver by Hewlett-Packard
pre-configure a print driver for deployment. When the package is run on the client computer, the new configuration file configures the printer driver after it is
HP_Universal_Print_Driver
Simulated device resembling a printer driver
In computing a virtual printer is a simulated device whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected to a physical
Virtual_printer
File format for images
original (PDF) on 2023-04-14, retrieved 2020-01-28 "2.3.6.26. METAFILE_DRIVER Record", [MS-WMF]: Windows Metafile Format Specification (PDF), pp. 173–174
Windows_Metafile
Word processing application
additional printers this way was impractical, so the company introduced printer drivers, a file containing a list of control codes for each model of printer. Version
WordPerfect
Printer drivers for Unix-like operating systems
collection of free-software printer drivers for use with UNIX spooling systems, such as CUPS, LPR, and LPRng. These drivers provide printing services for
Gutenprint
Software application
separate application, Distiller eventually became incorporated into a printer driver for creating PDF files that preserved the printed appearance of documents
Adobe_Distiller
Printer which prints a whole page at a time
computer. In other cases printers may have imbedded processors to perform this task. A printer driver, a program (device driver) which converts the computer's
Page_printer
Printer for personalized plastic cards and photo identity cards
are controlled by corresponding printer drivers or by means of a specific programming language. Generally card printers are designed with laminating, striping
Card_printer
onto the reader's Windows desktop icon, or "printing" to a virtual printer driver) of PDF creation (Ghostscript not additionally needed), saving filled
List_of_PDF_software
Software development platform
embeds web services technology into software like the HP Universal Printer Driver (HP UPD). The device layer, or HP OXPd, provides a software development
HP Open Extensibility Platform
HP_Open_Extensibility_Platform
Interpreter for the PostScript language
etc.) converter; this is often combined with a PostScript printer driver in "virtual printer" PDF creators. As it takes the form of a language interpreter
Ghostscript
Printer driver system for Linux and Amiga
source printer driver system for Linux, AmigaOS and MorphOS. It supports a number of printers that don't yet have a free driver, and fuller printer functionality
TurboPrint
Office suite by Microsoft
other features. Publisher 2003 introduced a Generic Color PostScript printer driver for commercial printing. Information Rights Management capabilities
Microsoft_Office_2003
Computer printing system
Line Printer Daemon protocol and limited support for the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. System administrators can configure the device drivers which
CUPS
DBASE database file format family
object file; Applications Generator only .PR2 Printer driver file .PRD A file containing printer driver information for DBSETUP .PRF Print form file
.dbf
1999 Microsoft operating system version
print drivers (user mode printer drivers) based on Unidrv, which made it easier for printer manufacturers to write device drivers for printers. Generic
Windows_2000
laser printers with full printing, scanning, and faxing support. As of 2021[update] the supplied printer-drivers support a total of 3,088 HP printer models;
HP_Linux_Imaging_and_Printing
Device that converts energy from one form to another
simple (a fixed mechanical or electrical system), software-based (e.g. a printer driver, robot control system), a human, or any other input. Bidirectional transducers
Transducer
Printer and scanner industry association
disables third-party printer drivers and relies solely on the built-in Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) class driver; printers that don't support Mopria
Mopria_Alliance
Office machine
An MFP (multi-function product/printer/peripheral), multi-functional, all-in-one (AIO), or multi-function device (MFD), is an office machine which incorporates
Multi-function_printer
Page description language developed by Epson
Epson FX printer codes Gutenprint CVSweb view of printers.xml The Developer's Guide to Gutenprint, Chapter 5: ESC/P2 Source of Epson P-R driver for Linux
ESC/P
XML-based document format
primitives, which printer drivers could offload their rasterization to the printer in order to reduce computational load if the printer is capable of rasterizing
Open_XML_Paper_Specification
displays. Between 2003 and 2005, LCD driver chips sold 9,821.2 million units worldwide. Device driver Printer driver Borden, Howard C.; Pighini, Gerald
Display_driver
Two-dimensional patterned array
occur in either the printer itself using a page description language such as Adobe PostScript, or may be performed by printer driver software installed
Dot_matrix
Word processing software
computer printers, each of which requires its own printer driver. The company's printer support is very strong with daisy-wheel and dot-matrix printers, but
MultiMate
Old printer error message in some operating systems
operating systems, which often still retain this legacy message. Modern printer drivers and support have improved and hidden low-level error messages from
Lp0_on_fire
Device for printing adhesive labels
A label printer is a computer printer that prints on self-adhesive label material and/or card-stock (tags). A label printer with built-in keyboard and
Label_printer
Security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
be able to install printer drivers. Part of the vulnerability related to the ability of non-administrators to install printer drivers on the system, such
PrintNightmare
Apple operating systems from 1984 to 2001
labeled "System Folder", which contains other resource files, like a printer driver, needed to interact with the System. Version numbers of the operating
Classic_Mac_OS
Communication protocol for printers
phones, tablets, etc.) and printers (or print servers). The protocol allows clients to submit one or more print jobs to the printer or print server attached
Internet_Printing_Protocol
printer and IT can remove all print servers and sometimes even all printer drivers. Commercial Cloud print service enables content owners to print their
Cloud_printing
Type of computer printing
a modified device driver are usually required, to deal with the different color mapping. Some types of industrial inkjet printers are now capable of
Inkjet_printing
Computer interface
LPT1 DOS device driver) today is 0x378, even though the default is still 0x3BC (and would be selected by the BIOS if it detects a printer port at this address)
Parallel_port
Step in the prepress printing process
simultaneously. Print driver imposition. Some printer drivers enable the source application's single-page printed output to be sent to the printer as full sheets
Imposition
Software deployment system for Linux by Canonical
applications, server tools, IoT apps and even system services such as the printer driver stack. To ensure this, Snap relies on systemd for features such as running
Snap_(software)
Topics referred to by the same term
character Disabled person (offensive) Gimp-Print, a collection of printer drivers Martin Snyder (1893–1981), Jewish-American gangster commonly known
Gimp
First major release of classic Apple Macintosh operating system (1984)
(which includes the desk accessories), Finder, Clipboard, an Imagewriter printer driver, Scrapbook, and Note Pad. A separate diskette included "A Guided Tour
System_1
one SAP installation to another. This data can range from a simple printer driver to a whole SAP client. It can be considered as an "update", with the
Transport_(SAP)
British word processing program
desktop software. Being a "printer font only" program relieved the software of any reliance on the RISC OS printer drivers (which was also a characteristic
Protext
characters. Printers do not understand these characters themselves, therefore the printer driver must translate them to the corresponding printer commands
IBM Machine Code Printer Control Characters
IBM_Machine_Code_Printer_Control_Characters
Operating system microkernel
line of text to a line printer and then have nothing to do until the printer completes printing that line. In this case, the driver indicates that it was
Mach_(kernel)
Fedora OS release dates
deck chairs and railings." Features of Fedora 13 include: Automatic printer driver installation Automatic language pack installation Redesigned user account
Fedora_Linux_release_history
Computer graphics system and printing service bureau
programming code to develop a proprietary printer driver to output directly to an Epson 9500 wide format printer. At the time, Genigraphics was the exclusive
Genigraphics
Typesetting system
converted to a suitable format for any of the various printers for which a device driver existed (printer support was generally not an operating system feature
TeX
Variant of PC DOS/MS-DOS developed for Japan
end processor (FEP) support driver $PRN.SYS – Printer driver $PRNUSER.SYS – Printer driver $PRNESCP.SYS – Printer driver for Epson ESC/P J84 In 1988,
DOS/V
Linux-based operating system developed by Google
ChromeOS. The proxy registered the printer with the service, managed the print jobs, provided the printer driver functionality, and gave status alerts
ChromeOS
Function that disables software after a particular date
obsolescence Scribe Time-bomb Time bomb Windows Vista home page PostScript Printer Driver Optimization Case Study Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine,
Time_bomb_(software)
Word processor for Atari 8-bit computers
absence of printer drivers for any printers other than Atari's. To meet the demand for non-Atari printers, at least 25,000 copies of an add-on printer pack
AtariWriter
1992 Microsoft operating system version
uses the .cal extension. Printer management tasks were moved over to Control Panel and Print Manager. Several printer drivers were improved in Windows
Windows_3.1
was typed in a Type 1 font with standard encoding, both ATM and the printer driver would get a generic glyph in the Times style from the Symbol font. In
PostScript_fonts
Type of modem
telephone line access and software. A special printer driver may be included to allow treating a fax modem as a printer. Fax integration is available in unified
Fax_modem
Operating system based on OS/2
series, is planned. Storage drivers are available for IDE, AHCI, NVMe and a number of SCSI adapters. Support for printers is provided by the eCups project
ArcaOS
1985 Microsoft operating system version
consistent with the international release like drivers for non-U.S. keyboards and additional screen and printer drivers, and superseded both version 1.01 in the
Windows_1.0
Overview of software for Amiga computers
program with many drivers which support many modern printers. PrintStudio Professional I and II are another well known printer driver system for the Amiga
Amiga support and maintenance software
Amiga_support_and_maintenance_software
Feature by Apple
installing printer-specific drivers. Connection is via a local area network (often via Wi-Fi), either directly to AirPrint-compatible printers, or to non-compatible
AirPrint
2001 operating system version
and that not all hardware vendors (particularly printer manufacturers) had released updated drivers for Mac OS X yet. It was noted that Apple planned
Mac_OS_X_10.0
Italian electronics manufacturer
wheel printer is fully software driven by a config.sys driver running on the 8088 CPU and behaves like an external printer on LPT1:. The printer driver also
Olivetti_typewriters
Printing filter
printer-language file from the raster data (raster2xxx, using the raster driver of the target printer) Send the printer-language file to the printer But
Foomatic
Paper designed for use with inkjet printers
"muddy" colors. For all types of paper, printer driver settings must be adjusted to suit the paper, so that the printer delivers the right amount of ink. Photo
Inkjet_paper
Program for Macintosh systems
identify which port had a printer, possibly both. A small desk accessory called Choose Printer allowed the printer driver and serial port to be selected
Chooser_(Mac_OS)
“city” fonts were automatically replaced by PostScript fonts by the printer driver. Commercial typefaces such as Times and Helvetica began to be distributed
Fonts_on_Macintosh
Markup language and word processing system
p. 24-31 doi:10.1145/567446.567449 see GML Wiki article PostScript Printer Driver Optimization Case Study, Adobe Systems, Technical Note #5042, 31 March
Scribe_(markup_language)
PostScript-compatible interpreter
Enterprises in July 1989 to produce Tru Image, a PostScript-compatible printer driver... Apple and Microsoft Declare War on Adobe By Greg Scott, October 30
TrueImage
Type of on-demand printing in which text and graphics may be altered in-process
methodology, a static document is loaded into printer memory. The printer is instructed, through the print driver or raster image processor (RIP) to always
Variable_data_printing
Type of file format
or Dassault's Solidworks software. Autodesk DWF Writer is a Windows printer driver that converts files to DWF format. The result is that the entire project
Design_Web_Format
capability introduced in 1989 Canon printers are supplied with Canon Advanced Printing Technology (CAPT), a printer driver software stack developed by Canon
List_of_Canon_products
File that describes printer capabilities
PostScript printers. A PPD also contains the PostScript code (commands) used to invoke features for the print job. As such, PPDs function as drivers for all
PostScript Printer Description
PostScript_Printer_Description
Computer file format
in principle not much different from rendering for a device-specific printer driver, and DjVu can as a last resort be generated from scans of paper media
DjVu
Typesetting file format
image format, display hardware or printer. DVI files are typically used as input to a second program (called a DVI driver) which translates DVI files to
Device independent file format
Device_independent_file_format
Family of disk operating systems
the Monitor and Integer BASIC have commands to redirect printing to a printer driver in a designated slot, so the conventional way to boot from disk then
Apple_DOS
Personal computer
compatibility with RISC OS, replacing special-purpose printer support with use of the system's printer drivers, but not making the software a desktop application
Acorn_Archimedes
Topics referred to by the same term
NEC Jetmate, a series of NEC thermal inkjet printers in the 1980s Transcend JetMate, a laser printer driver to render Chinese characters by Transcend in
Jetmate
Version of Microsoft Office
calculation being displayed. OneNote Import Printer Driver, where any application can print to a virtual printer for OneNote and the "printed" document is
Microsoft_Office_2007
kernel performance and stability. Also, printer drivers in kernel mode are not supported. User-mode drivers are not able to directly access the kernel
Technical features new to Windows Vista
Technical_features_new_to_Windows_Vista
programs and utilities (multiple vendors) Spellcheck disks and ROMS Printer driver ROMs "History of Computer Concepts". "Acorn User April 1985 p.174-175"
Wordwise
16-bit IBM minicomputer introduced in 1965
or the level 1 printer interrupt), it ran at the faster 3.6 μs cycle time. Some users of the Model 4 would write a phony printer driver that did not dismiss
IBM_1130
Encapsulated PostScript file format
print a composite of the image. When output to a PostScript printer, the printer driver reads the information in the main file and assigns the cyan,
Desktop_Color_Separations
Japanese multinational technology company
Graphtec Corporation (TYO: 6968), formerly Watanabe Instruments, is a company for computer input and output devices in Japan. It has subsidiaries in the
Graphtec
Impact printing technology
multiple fonts within a document: font changing is facilitated by printer device drivers which can position the carriage to the center of the platen and
Daisy_wheel_printing
Components included in all Microsoft Office products
2010. (The Internet Fax feature in Office 2010 uses the Windows Fax printer driver to generate a TIFF file instead.) Microsoft offers MDI to TIFF File
Microsoft_Office_shared_tools
Printer Job Language (PJL) is a method developed by Hewlett-Packard for switching printer languages at the job level, and for status readback between
Printer_Job_Language
Software suite for image processing
Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom. PrinTao 8 handled color management and all printer driver settings. It contained various printing templates such as pack templates
SilverFast
Portable document file format
March 1994. An Envoy file could be created by the use of a special printer driver in WordPerfect, and an application for "viewing, manipulating, annotating
Envoy_(WordPerfect)
Software company
version of each package includes a memory-resident input method and printer driver. Versions for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems include
VNLabs
British home computer of the early 1980s
jupiter-ace.co.uk. "Jupiter Ace Hardware Printer Card". www.jupiter-ace.co.uk. "Tape 11: ZX Printer Driver". www.jupiter-ace.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-25
Jupiter_Ace
1987 Microsoft operating system version
KERNEL.EXE, USER.EXE, and GDI.EXE. These files along with device drivers, printer drivers being the exception, are combined by the Windows setup program
Windows_2.0
Four-color laser printer
12/600 PS color laser printer was intended for small business and consumers with high printing requirements. The Windows-compatible driver was of interest due
Color_LaserWriter
American computer scientist (born 1976)
California. While in high school and as an undergraduate, he wrote printer driver software for Palomar Software, a San Diego-area Macintosh software company
Samuel Madden (computer scientist)
Samuel_Madden_(computer_scientist)
would not even attempt to print graphics. On Windows 3.1, the universal printer driver would sometimes be able to handle both text and graphics with a single
Make_Compatible
Edition of Windows XP for x86-64 computers, released in 2005
rendering primitives for improved performance, FIPS encryption, fallback printer driver, auto-reconnect and new Group Policy settings. Files and Settings Transfer
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Edition
Component of the Microsoft Windows operating system
with the OS (eg. Touchpads, Pens, Mices and Keyboards) Printer devices: Drivers that contain printer information. Hidden category since Windows Vista. Imaging
Device_Manager
2001 operating system version
More printer support (200 printers supported out of the box) — One of the main complaints of version 10.0 users was the lack of printer drivers, and Apple
Mac_OS_X_10.1
1996 Microsoft operating system version
graphical user interface. This, however, also mandated that graphics and printer drivers had to run in kernel mode as well, resulting in potential stability
Windows_NT_4.0
PRINTER DRIVER
PRINTER DRIVER
Girl/Female
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English, Jamaican
Season Name; Born in Winter; Winter; Snowy
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : nickname from Middle English, Old French prince (Latin princeps), presumably denoting someone who behaved in a regal manner or who had won the title in some contest of skill.Translation of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Prinz or of a word meaning ‘prince’ in some other language.
Boy/Male
Latin American English
Prince.
Boy/Male
Anglo, Australian, British, English, Jamaican
Year; Winter
Surname or Lastname
English
English : status name for a reeve, the chief magistrate or bailiff of a district, from Latin praetor.Dutch : occupational name for a warden of meadows or a gamekeeper, from Middle Dutch prater, preter (Latin pratarius, a derivative of pratum ‘meadow’).Dutch and North German : nickname for an excessively talkative person, from Middle Low German praten ‘to talk or prattle’.German : variant of Brater (see Brader 2).
Surname or Lastname
English, German, Danish, and Swedish
English, German, Danish, and Swedish : nickname or byname for someone of a frosty or gloomy temperament, from Middle English, Middle High German, Danish, Swedish winter (Old English winter, Old High German wintar, Old Norse vetr). The Swedish name can be ornamental.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Winter ‘winter’, either an ornamental name or one of the group of names denoting the seasons, which were distributed at random by government officials. Compare Summer, Fruhling, and Herbst.Irish : Anglicized form ( part translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheimhridh ‘son of the lad of winter’, from geimhreadh ‘winter’. This name is also Anglicized McAlivery.Mistranslation of French Livernois, which is in fact a habitational name, but mistakenly construed as l’hiver ‘winter’.
Male
Swedish
Swedish pet form of Scandinavian Kristoffer, KRISTER means "believer" or "follower of Christ."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin. It is probably an occupational name for an official in charge of a granary, Anglo-Norman French grenetier, but it could also be a variant of Grinder.The name Grinter is fairly common in Dorset, England, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It is recorded as Grenter in 1570 in that county.
Female
English
English name derived from the season name, "winter." The word may derive from Proto-Indo-European *wind-, WINTER means "white."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English, Old French peinto(u)r, oblique case of peintre ‘painter’, hence an occupational name for a painter (normally of colored glass). In the Middle Ages the walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’ at St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in central and southern England.German : topographic name for someone living in a fenced enclosure (see Bainter).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Pointer.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Fretter, an occupational name for a maker of ornaments (especially for the hair) consisting of jewels set in a lattice network, from an agent derivative of Middle English frette, Old French frete ‘interlaced work’.
Surname or Lastname
English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : occupational name from Middle English pointer ‘point maker’, an agent derivative of point, a term denoting a lace or cord used to fasten together doublet and hose (Old French pointe ‘point’, ‘sharp end’). Reaney suggests that in some cases Pointer may have been an occupational name for a tiler or slater whose job was to point the tiles, i.e. render them with mortar where they overlapped.Possibly an altered form of German Pointner, a variant of Bainter.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a panther, Middle High German panter (see Panther 1).North German : occupational name for a mortager or pawn broker, from a contracted form of Pfandherr.English (mainly Northamptonshire) and Scottish : occupational name for a servant in charge of the supply of bread and other provisions in a monastery or large household, Middle English pan(e)ter (Old French panetier).
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, from a name for a "peddler, hawker," who drove a wagon, derived from the Middle English word traunter, TRANTER means "to convey."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pit or hollow (see Pitt) + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.German : variant of Peter.Jewish (from Ukraine) : metonymic occupational nanme from Yiddish dialect piter ‘butter’. Compare Putterman.
Surname or Lastname
English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : from the Old French personal name Reinger, Rainger, composed of the Germanic elements ragin ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ + gÄr, gÄ“r ‘spear’, ‘lance’.English : occupational name for a maker of rings (see Ring 1) or for a bell ringer, from Middle English ring(en) ‘to ring’, Old English hringan.German : occupational name for a turner, someone who made objects by rotating them on a lathe or wheel.
Male
English
English name derived from the title, prince, from Latin princeps, PRINCE means "chief, first."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a grinder of grain, i.e. a miller, Middle English, Old English grindere, an agent noun from Old English grindan ‘to grind’. Less often it may have referred to someone who ground blades to keep their sharpness or who ground pigments, spices, and medicinal herbs to powder.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Painter.
PRINTER DRIVER
PRINTER DRIVER
Boy/Male
Tamil
Tender, Delicate, Soft, Gentle
Boy/Male
Celtic
Song.
Female
English
Feminine form of English unisex Lindsay, LYNSEY means "Lincoln's wetlands."
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Roofer
Girl/Female
Hebrew Ukrainian
Grace.
Girl/Female
English
Modernand Laurie referring to the laurel tree or sweet bay tree symbolic of honor and victory.
Female
Egyptian
, the mother of Nunnu.
Male
Esperanto
Esperanto form of Latin Ludovicus, LUDOVIKO means "famous warrior."
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Lovely and precious gold
Boy/Male
Indian
Type of palm tree
PRINTER DRIVER
PRINTER DRIVER
PRINTER DRIVER
PRINTER DRIVER
PRINTER DRIVER
a.
Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
v. t.
To inter again.
n.
One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.
n.
One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
n.
A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
imp. & p. p.
of Print
n.
One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
v. t.
To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.
n.
The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
n.
One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
n.
A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office.
n.
One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.
a.
Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.
n.
One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.
n.
The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
a.
Pointed as needles.
n.
One who dresses showily; a prinker.
n.
A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John.
n.
Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.