Printfil Print from DOS, Unix, Linux to Windows Printers: USB, GDI, PDF, Fax, Virtual. Capture LPT1: , LPT2: , LPT3: and redirect the print jobs.

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Printfil allows character based applications to print to Windows printers, even if it is a Dos, Windows program or a Unix, Linux application running on a Windows PC via telnet.

Printing from DOS and *nix to the newest all-in-one Windows-only printers is possible, and easy.

You can set your application to print to an ascii file, or you can let Printfil automatically capture the parallel port output and redirect your print jobs to any printer, including USB, GDI, network printers, fax printers and PDF writers, even if a printer is physically connected to the captured port or no physical LPT ports are installed, on any machine running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, including Terminal Server environments and Linux via Wine.

This software allows character based applications to print to any Windows printer, including USB, network printers, faxmodems and PDF writers, even if it is a Dos/Windows application or a Unix/Linux app. running on a Windows PC via telnet, without changes to the original applications.

You can set your application to print to an ascii file, or you can have Printfil capturing a parallel port output, automatically redirecting your print jobs to any printer, even to a printer which is physically connected to the captured port.

In addition, it will allows you to:

• preview printing
• include logos or background images stored in separate files
• colorize the text
• print A4 landscape sheets in place of printing on dot-matrix 136-column printers
• print to ANY printer installed in the Windows Control Panel, including USB, GDI, Windows-only and Virtual printers
• send print jobs via fax (using any third-party fax software which acts like a printer - eg. Microsoft Fax - or a multifunction - all-in-one - printer)
• print to networked printers without having to "NET USE" a LPT port
• use specialist windows fonts (barcodes, for instance) in addition to normal characters in Ansi (Windows) or your own OEM (DOS Codepage) conversion
• export print jobs in PDF format, with or without user intervention, even with encryption and password protection
• send print jobs via e-mail by using your own e-mail client program, with or without user intervention
• use a single, customizable set of escape sequences for ALL printers, regardless of make, model and emulation provided (or no emulation at all, as for Virtual and Windows-only printers)
• print complex jobs to legacy printers in RAW mode (including drawings and graphics) without going through the Windows driver and without changing the original data flow
• archive a copy of all the captured jobs in a directory of your choice
• print your jobs to multiple printers simultaneously
• and other interesting features.

If you are developing host based applications (like Unix) to run on a Windows Terminal Emulator, you can stop battling with transparent-print characters and different settings for different printers. All you need is a shared file system (NFS, SCO-VisionFS, Samba and others) to store output for your print jobs and PRINTFIL.

Printfil Print from DOS, Unix, Linux to Windows Printers: USB, GDI, PDF, Fax, Virtual. Capture LPT1: , LPT2: , LPT3: and redirect the print jobs. Product licence price Buy online Printfil 79,00 EUR Purchase Printfil Personal Edition 49,00 EUR Purchase