Debugging Printer Drivers and Spooler Components
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.
This section provides tips on user-mode debugging of printer drivers and information about how to add debugging and message logging capabilities to a printer driver or spooler component during its development.