Device Stage Document Device Development Kit
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.
The Device Stage Document Device Developer Kit contains the following information:
Windows 7 Device Stage Document Devices Development Guide - Detailed documentation on document devices specific development topics on how to identify a device, add compatible tasks, use status and other advanced authoring topics.
Windows 7 Device Stage Planning Worksheet - Document device Planning Worksheet listing required and optional values needed when planning and building a Device Stage experience.
Document Devices Tutorial - Step by step guide on how to edit document device templates to create a custom Device Stage experience for a new device.
Document Devices Templates - Device Stage templates for document devices.