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Microsoft PostScript printer driver

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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 PostScript printer driver (Pscript) is the Microsoft standard printer driver for PostScript printers.

The following articles describe Pscript driver:

Article Description
Pscript capabilities Provides information about capabilities of Pscript drivers.
Pscript components Provides information about the DLLs, text files, and binary data files that comprise Pscript components.
Pscript minidrivers Provides information about Pscript minidrivers that are created from .ppd and .ntf files.
Pscript user interface Provides information about the Pscript user interface that employs CPSUI to create property sheet pages.
Pscript renderer Provides information about the Pscript renderer that is implemented as a printer graphics DLL and exports functions defined by Microsoft DDIs for graphics drivers.
Hostfont registry entries Provides information about an OEM plug-in that can notify Pscript5 drivers of available fonts.
Pscript-supported escapes Provides information about Pscript5 printer driver escapes.
PPD-specific interface Provides information about PPD-specific behavior of the IPrintCoreUI2 COM interface.