Access driver settings from rendering plug-ins

Important

The modern print platform is Windows' preferred means of communicating with printers. We recommend that you use Microsoft's IPP inbox class driver, along with Print Support Apps (PSA), to customize the print experience in Windows 10 and 11 for printer device development.

For more information, see Modern print platform and the Print support app design guide.

A rendering plug-in can obtain the current status of printer features and other internal driver information. The following COM interface methods are implemented within Microsoft's printer drivers and can be called by rendering plug-ins.

Unidrv rendering plug-ins implement the following methods

• IPrintOemDriverUni::DrvGetDriverSetting

• IPrintOemDriverUni::DrvGetStandardVariable

• IPrintOemDriverUni::DrvGetGPDData

Pscript5 rendering plug-ins implement the following method

• IPrintOemDriverPS::DrvGetDriverSetting