Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
I wonder how hard it is to make a fake USB printer.
Like, a printer that takes any printout and goes "yep, that printed just fine" but nothing ever comes out anywhere
Show threaddemofoxJun 3, 2024
@foone what's your usage case?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
@demofox I've got a program that keeps printing things at regular intervals, and it wastes several seconds between items. if I had a fake printer, I could do a real print batch at the beginning, then every time it tries to print, it just instantly succeeds, doing nothing.
Show threadbiggestsonicfan
@foone @demofox I think I used to use a software called PDF995 and set the output directory to a read-only folder for this type of edge case.
Jun 3, 2024 at 11:15pmWeb