Sample CPSUI Application

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.

Source code for CPSUISAM, a sample CPSUI application, is included in the \src\print directory of the WDK. The application causes CPSUI to call into the print spooler to create property sheet pages for the system's default printer. The application then creates an additional property sheet page, in order to illustrate some of the techniques that can be employed when using CPSUI to create a new page.

Printer interface DLLs should not call into the print spooler. CPSUISAM illustrates some of the capabilities of CPSUI but does not represent techniques that should be used by printer interface DLLs. Instead, these DLLs should follow the steps described in Using CPSUI with Printer Drivers.