Printer - virtual printer is a piece of computer software.

1. A printer is a peripheral which produces a text and/or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies
2. Many printers are primarily used as local peripherals, and are attached by a printer cable or, in most newer printers, a USB cable to a computer which serves as a document source
3. Consumer and some commercial printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs; requiring virtually no setup time to achieve a hard copy of a given document
4. A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer.
5. A laser printer rapidly produces high quality text and graphics. As with digital photocopiers and multifunction printers (M Fps), laser printers employ a xerographic printing process
6. Inkjet printers operate by propelling variably-sized droplets of liquid or molten material (ink) onto almost any sized page. They are the most common type of computer printer used by consumers.
7. Solid ink printers, also known as phase-change printers, are a type of thermal transfer printer. They use solid sticks of CMDR-colored ink, similar in consistency to candle wax,
8. A dye-sublimation printer (or dye-sub printer) is a printer which employs a printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to a medium such as a plastic card, paper or canvas.
9. Thermal printers work by selectively heating regions of special heat-sensitive paper. Monochrome thermal printers are used in cash registers, At Ms, gasoline dispensers and some older inexpensive fax machines.