Details of the IPrintCoreHelperPS Interface

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.

Pscript5 does not have an equivalent to the GDL parser, so for Pscript5 drivers, additional methods are provided to read data that appears in the PPD file. In addition to all of the methods of the base IPrintCoreHelper interface, the IPrintCoreHelperPS interface contains the following methods, which provide access to the data in the PPD file:

• IPrintCoreHelperPS::GetFeatureAttribute

• IPrintCoreHelperPS::GetGlobalAttribute

• IPrintCoreHelperPS::GetOptionAttribute

Because the PPD information does not depend on the configuration, you do not need to supply an input DEVMODEW parameter to these methods.