Microsoft — Office Document Writer Driver

You hit Ctrl + P in an app like Word or even a browser.

Starting with Windows XP SP2 , Microsoft introduced the XPS Document Writer . This was Microsoft's attempt to create a competitor to Adobe’s PDF format. 🛠️ How It Works Microsoft Office Document Writer Driver

The (MODIW) and its modern successor, the Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW), are "virtual printers" designed to let you save digital documents without ever touching paper. You hit Ctrl + P in an app like Word or even a browser

Bundled with Microsoft Office 2003 , this driver was a go-to for turning Word or Excel files into TIFF or MDI (Microsoft Document Imaging) formats. It was famously used to "digitize" files before PDFs became the universal standard. the Microsoft XPS Document Writer (MXDW)