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Microsoft Plotter Driver

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Important

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 the Print support app design guide.

The Microsoft Plotter Driver is the Microsoft standard printer driver for plotters that support the Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language.

The following topics describe the Microsoft Plotter Driver:

Plotter Driver Capabilities

Plotter Driver Components

Plotter Driver Minidrivers

Plotter Driver User Interface

Plotter Driver Renderer

In Windows 10, the MSPLOT driver sample was removed and is not available in the Windows 10 driver sample repo on GitHub.

Previous versions of the MSPLOT Windows driver sample are archived at Microsoft Archive on GitHub:

Windows 8.1 driver samples

Windows 8 driver samples

For Windows 7, the MSPLOT sample was included in the Windows Driver Kit Version 7.1.0.