OEM Printer Drivers
We develop printer drivers for the major manufacturers with worldwide distribution.
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Printer Driver Development
We have 30+ years of industry experience developing the highest-quality printer drivers for any type of printer compatible with all operating systems.
We have extensive knowledge and expertise to develop custom printer drivers that are compatible with the latest printers and operating systems. Our team of skilled developers understand the core printing technologies and communication protocols to provide printer manufacturers and system integrators a proven printing solution. Whether you need a printer driver for a new printer or an update for an existing one, we can help. Contact us today to learn more about how our custom printer drivers can help your business.
Our strengths
Why Choose TAB Software?
Full OS Support
Our printer drivers support all modern operating systems.
Experience
Our vast experience with printer driver development results in proven driver reliability and customer satisfaction.
What we build
Our Printer Driver Services
Custom Microsoft Windows Printer Drivers
We develop custom Windows drivers to meet the unique needs of our clients.
Universal Printer Driver
The Universal Printer Driver is Microsoft's standard printer driver for non-PostScript printers.
XPS Printer Driver
The XPS Printer Driver (XPSDrv) is a Version 3 printer driver, introduced with Windows Vista, that uses the XML Paper Specification (XPS) as its spool format. XPSDrv drivers process and render documents through filters in the XPS print filter pipeline, with a configuration module that describes the printer’s features using the Print Schema.
V4 Printer Driver
The v4 printer driver model is a refinement to the v3 printer driver model, and it was designed to reduce IT management costs, support .NET UWP apps, and support custom print scenarios such as watermarking, n-up printing, and page reordering.
Monolithic Printer Driver
Custom printer drivers where GDI and user interface functions are handled by the printer driver. Monolithic printer drivers provide a level of printing functionality not available to the minidriver based printer drivers.
Language Monitors
Provide bidirectional error checking with the physical printer. Language monitors act as a mediator between the Windows spooler and the Port Monitor.
Port Monitors
Communicate with the physical printer by sending the contents of a spooled job to the printer via the printer's command set.
Driver Signing
All of our Windows printer drivers are digitally signed.
Operating Systems
All Microsoft Windows operating systems are supported, from Windows 2000 through Windows 11, including 32-bit, 64-bit, and Windows on ARM.
Communication Protocols
Any communication protocol can be supported through custom printer drivers. Common protocols include USB, Ethernet, parallel, and serial.
Custom Apple macOS Printer Drivers
Our custom printer drivers are fully compatible with the macOS operating system and support Apple specific features such as AirPrint, custom property pages, and printer presets.
Driverless Printing: IPP Everywhere and Printer Applications
Printing on macOS is moving to a driverless architecture. AirPrint and IPP Everywhere printers describe their own capabilities over the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), so no installed driver or PPD file is needed, and PPD-based printer drivers are deprecated in CUPS. Printers without native driverless support are served by a Printer Application: a small service that presents the printer to macOS as an IPP Everywhere printer and converts each print job into the printer's own language. We develop Printer Applications using PAPPL, the open source Printer Application Framework.
- Printer Applications for printers without native IPP Everywhere support
- Migration of existing CUPS printer drivers to Printer Applications
- Custom printer features exposed through standard IPP attributes
- Built-in web interface for printer setup and status
CUPS Printer Driver
CUPS is a standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple for macOS and other UNIX-like operating systems. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") and provides System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces, a web interface, and a C API to manage printers and print jobs. Our CUPS Printer Drivers support all features of the CUPS standard including macOS UI plugins for setting custom printing preferences.
Printer Browsers
Enable printers to be discovered through local and network connections.
Render Modules
Used by the printing system to convert the graphics content in a print job for output to a specific printer or family of printers.
Printer Filters
Used by the printing system to communicate with a printer using a standard transport-layer interface, such as USB or TCP/IP.
Printing Dialog Extensions
Provide a way for people to view and change the settings for a set of related printing features. The user interface of a printing dialog extension is a pane in one of the printing dialogs.
Maintenance Utilities
Programs to perform utility tasks such as observing the ink/toner levels, cleaning and/or aligning print heads, etc.
Notarization
Our macOS printer drivers and installers are signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so they install without security warnings.
Operating Systems
All Apple macOS operating systems are supported, from OS X 10.3 Panther through macOS 27 Golden Gate, on both Intel and Apple silicon Macs.
Communication Protocols
Any communication protocol can be supported through custom printer drivers. Common protocols include USB, Ethernet, parallel, and serial.
Custom Linux Printer Drivers
We develop custom Linux printer drivers that are compatible with the major CPU architectures, including Intel and ARM.
Driverless Printing: IPP Everywhere and Printer Applications
CUPS is moving to a driverless printing architecture. IPP Everywhere printers describe their own capabilities over the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), so no installed driver or PPD file is needed, and PPD-based printer drivers are deprecated in CUPS. Printers without native IPP Everywhere support are served by a Printer Application: a small service that presents the printer to CUPS as an IPP Everywhere printer and converts each print job into the printer's own language. We develop Printer Applications using PAPPL, the open source Printer Application Framework.
- Printer Applications for printers without native IPP Everywhere support
- Migration of existing CUPS printer drivers to Printer Applications
- Custom printer features exposed through standard IPP attributes
- Built-in web interface for printer setup and status
CUPS Printer Driver
CUPS is a standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple for macOS and other UNIX-like operating systems. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") and provides System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces, a web interface, and a C API to manage printers and print jobs. Our CUPS Printer Drivers support all features of the CUPS standard on Linux.
Render Modules
Used by the printing system to convert device-independent page description language (PDL) from standard input into the (model-dependent) PDL of the printer on standard output.
Printer Filters
Used by the printing system to communicate with a printer using a standard transport-layer interface, such as USB or TCP/IP.
Maintenance Utilities
Programs to perform utility tasks such as observing the ink/toner levels, cleaning and/or aligning print heads, etc.
Operating Systems
All Linux distributions are supported on Intel and ARM processors. Common supported Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE.
Communication Protocols
Any communication protocol can be supported through custom printer drivers. Common protocols include USB, Ethernet, parallel, and serial.
Virtual Printer Drivers
A Virtual Printer Driver is a special driver that does not connect to a physical printer but renders documents in any file format which can be saved to disk or spooled to another printer driver for printing by that manufacturer's driver.
Benefits
Virtual Printer Drivers can add document features that are not supported by existing printer drivers. Enhanced features include custom watermarking, n-up printing, content removal and alteration, email support and resource costing.
Operating Systems
All modern operating systems are supported by our Virtual Printer Drivers.
Cloud Printing to Local Print Resources
Gain full control of the print process from mobile and web applications to the local print resources.
Benefits
Offering robust mobile and cloud-based printing solutions are no longer dependent on browser plugins. Print to local resources as if the device was on a local desktop computer.
Features
- Full access to local print resources from mobile and web apps
- Full access to local biometric resources such as IC encoders and mag stripe encoders
- Authenticated access to local print resources
- Robust error tracking and logging
- Resource utilization and supply tracking
Printer Plugin APIs
All printer drivers support a plugin API which is callable by third-party software.
Features
- Add print content such as watermarks
- Control printer features
- Support for biometric processing
- Save job contents to file or send via email
- Track resource usage for billing purposes
...and many more.
Working with us
From design to long-term support
2–3 months, design to hand-off
A typical driver project covers design, development, testing and delivery in two to three months.
NDAs on request
We sign non-disclosure agreements whenever a client asks.
Level 2 support after delivery
Your team handles front-line support requests, and we step in when an issue needs the driver’s developers.
Need a printer driver built or updated?
Tell us about the printer, the operating systems and the features you need.