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Best Practices Guide for Developing Printer Drivers

Best Practices Guide for Developing Printer Drivers

File name: Print_Drv-Dev.docx
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Updated: September 28, 2012
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Best Practices Guide for Developing Printer Drivers

File name: Print_Drv-Dev.xps
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Updated: September 28, 2012

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This paper provides information about printer drivers for the Windows family of operating systems. It provides printer driver developers and testers with important information about how to build a high quality printer driver. In particular, it calls out many of the best practices to implement during driver development and testing.

This information applies for the following operating systems:
        Windows 8
        Windows Server 2012
        Windows Server 2008 R2
        Windows 7
        Windows Server 2008
        Windows Vista

Included in this paper:

Setup Guidelines
Device Configuration
Driver Guidelines
Security Guidelines
Development and Testing Guidelines

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