Excuting OS Commands using Printer Driver

Hello, everyone. I recall reading awhile ago about how one could execute OS commands as a printer driver, for post-processing of Concurrent Program output files, for example.
Can anyone direct me to some documentation along those lines?
Thanks,
--Dave

I ended up reinstalling the drivers for the Canon from the original CD and that took care of it. Normally I can just copy the PPDs for our particular printers to the PPD folder in the Library/Printers/PPDs folder and it works fine, but for some reason this machine decided it needed everything reinstalled. It's working now.

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Hi,
Have you tried the following steps:
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Hello folks,
I have been facing the same problem until right now. All above suggested methods failed (as it did for Jeff0123) . But after long research on that issue I think I found the reason (but no proper solution yet).
MS Windows 8 and 2012 use a new printer driver generation based on XPS. Which means drivers like "generic text-only" won't work properly depending on the method the data is sent to the printer. In my case the
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See link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2779300
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