A virtual printer, like a real one, a tool?

Question

linux

Good day! For tests and pampering in a virtual network, you need tools, and preferably not one that will imitate the operation of a real printer, but not necessarily print. For example, I want to put a network printer on the network, send a document to it and receive flags that the document has been accepted, that's enough for me. Install the driver for this printer, upload the driver to the print server. Or put it on windows and forward it through the built-in tools. etc.
Basically I'm looking for a variety of

Answer 1

Put any driver for printing to a file, for example pdf from foxit reader or novapdf or 100500 more options, (some kind of handler comes with the office in their image format), in the print properties, remove the file save dialog by specifying the directory, here you have a full-fledged printer from the point view of the system, share it over the network and use

Answer 2

$ aptitude show printer-driver-cups-pdf
Пакет: printer-driver-cups-pdf                   
Версия: 3.0.1-5
Новый: да
Состояние: установлен
Установлен автоматически: нет
Приоритет: необязательный
Раздел: graphics
Сопровождающий: Debian CUPS Maintainers <[email protected]>
Архитектура: amd64
Размер в распакованном виде: 249 k
Зависит: cups, cups-client, ghostscript, libpaper-utils, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcups2 (>= 1.4.0)
Предлагает: system-config-printer
Заменяет: cups-pdf
Предоставляет: cups-pdf
Описание: printer driver for PDF writing via CUPS
 CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. This can be used as a virtual printer in a paperless network or to perform
 testing on CUPS. 
 
 Documents are written to a configurable directory (by default to ~/PDF) or can be further manipulated by a post-processing
 command. 
 
 Desktop users might find it simpler to use the Print To File feature provided by GTK+ and QT or the LibreOffice's Export
 to PDF feature.

Answer 3

If I remember correctly, pdfcreator had a server version that can work over the network.