Legacy v3 and v4 third-party printer drivers
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 information on designing, testing, and debugging legacy v3 and v4 third-party printer drivers.
In this section
Microsoft Universal printer driver
Microsoft PostScript printer driver
Print ticket and print capabilities technologies
Writing 64-bit printer drivers
Installing and configuring printer drivers
Generic Description Language (GDL)
Autoconfiguration implementation options
Bidirectional communication schema reference
Bidi interfaces and enumerations
Asynchronous user notification schema
Web services for devices print service schema
Customizing Microsoft printer drivers
COM Interfaces for printer web pages
Printer driver testing and debugging