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What's New for Printing

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Windows 8 supports printing for Windows Store apps using JavaScript and HTML and printing for Windows Store apps using C#/VB/C++ and XAML.

Windows 8 also includes a new COM-based API that provides full support for OpenXPS printing and access to portions of the new printer drivers that Windows 8 supports. For more information about the new API, see Print Document Package API.

The Windows Print Driver Inbox Program makes sure that Windows 8 includes support for a high percentage of the popular printers.

The following topics describe the printing and document features that were introduced in earlier versions of Windows.

Topic Description
What's New for Printing in Windows 7
 Describes what is new for documents and printing in Windows 7.
What's New for Printing in Windows Vista
 Lists the printing application programming interfaces (APIs) introduced in Windows Vista.