Printing Utilities and Management (Standard 7 Package Reference)

7/8/2014

This package is a Feature Pack in the category Devices and Printers. The name of the package as it appears on disk and for use with some command-line tools is WinEmb-Printing.

This package provides full functionality for printing, including the Print Spooler service, and for viewing, converting, and printing documents by using the XML Paper Specification (XPS). It also includes support for standardizing interactions between scanners and imaging applications by using the Windows Image Acquisition platform (WIA).

Settings

No settings provided.

Services

• LPD Service
• Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)

Dependencies

Package Dependencies

This package depends upon features provided by the following packages:

• Core File System
• Graphics Platform
• Microsoft Standard Printer (NTPrint) Driver
• Security Base

Group Dependencies

No group dependencies.

Optional Supporting Packages

You can select any number of packages from the following list:

• Accessibility
• Bitmap Fonts
• COM+ Application Support
• DirectX and Windows Device Experience
• Group Policy Management
• Internet Explorer 8 Browser
• Photo Viewer
• Windows Firewall
• Windows Search

You can use the optional packages to enable the following functions:

To do this	Use these packages
Search for printers. Add printers in property boxes. Search XPS documents.	Windows Search
Interface with imaging devices and acquire pictures for printing.	DirectX and Windows Device Experience
Provide support for firewall rules such as printer sharing rules.	Windows Firewall
Set group policies related to managing printing capabilities and characteristics from a computer.	Group Policy Management
View and print photos.	Photo Viewer
Support the thumbnail option which permits the document to be shown and zoomed within the XPS viewer.	Accessibility
Display icons of installed printers.	Internet Explorer 8 Browser
Adds the "Contact Sheet 35" option in the print picture utility.This is not needed for printing other combinations of pictures on a single sheet.	Bitmap Fonts Note: You do not need this package for printing other combinations of pictures on a single sheet.

Common Uses

Notes

You can include the Device Framework package in your image to provide additional functionality for working with Plug and Play devices like printers.

In order to search for and connect to network printers, you must include the Accessories, Device Framework, Domain Services, Networking Foundation, and Windows Management Instrumentation packages in your image.

In addition to the driver class installers that are included in Windows Embedded Core, this package includes the class installers and related files that are shown in the following table.

Class installer	Files
Microsoft-Windows-Printing-ClassInstallerAndPrintUI	compstui.dll findnetprinters.dll printui.exe printupg.inf puiapi.dll puiobj.dll
Microsoft-Windows-Printing-ClassInstallerAndPrintUI-AsyncUI	prnntfy.dll
Microsoft-Windows-Printing-ClassInstallerAndPrintUI-PMCPPC	pmcsnap.dll ppcsnap.dll printmanagement.msc
Microsoft-Windows-Printing-ClassInstallerAndPrintUI-Printui	printui.dll
Microsoft-Windows-Printing-ClassInstallerAndPrintUI-PRNFLDR	prnfldr.dll