Create your own port for printing in .NET.

Question

I am trying to figure out if it is possible to create a custom print port in .NET. The functionality I'm trying to achieve is to intercept the data created by the printer driver and send it to a remote server instead of the device.

Answer 1

Not really. Creating a virtual port driver or network redirector requires native code. However...

You can capture data by setting up a network print port and implementing the server side in .NET. For example, LPR will require you to create a TCP socket server, and this is entirely possible in C #.

I don't know any existing C # implementation, but you could learn a lot from the p910nd source code .

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