The reason(s) I thought of the "generic printr driver" that comes with windows are that: A) It comes with Widnows - so no need to search very far. B) It produces text files - which can be handy if you have a program that produces reams of text to print out but doesn't have a "save to file" option. So one prints to this "printer driver" set to file instead, and opens the text document produced in Wordpad (or Word or...). Occasionally handy.