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Supporting Advanced Color in Printer Drivers

Supporting Advanced Color in Printer Drivers

File name: color-drv.docx
102 KB
Updated: December 17, 2007
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Supporting Advanced Color in Printer Drivers

File name: color-drv.xps
467 KB
Updated: December 17, 2007

About This Download

This paper provides information about incorporating Window Color System (WCS) support in both Microsoft version 3 and XPSDrv printer drivers for the Windows Vista operating system. It provides prescriptive information for independent hardware vendors (IHVs) to develop WCS-enabled print drivers for Universal (Unidrv), PostScript (PScript), monolithic, and XPSDrv printer drivers. It also provides guidelines for independent software vendors (ISVs) to control color management functions that are exposed by printer drivers.

IHVs that have existing printers or are developing new printers can use this paper to help plan their implementation of WCS support in new and existing printer drivers.

This information applies for the following operating systems:
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003

What's New:

Updated WDK documentation references

Included in this paper:

Printing with Color Management
Developing a WCS-enabled Printer Driver

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