Printer driver overview

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 summarizes the different printer driver design options for Microsoft Windows printer drivers.

This section includes:

V4 printer driver

Driver support for OpenXPS

XPS printer driver (XPSDrv)

Microsoft universal printer driver

Microsoft PostScript printer driver

Microsoft plotter driver