Unidrv-Specific Customized Rendering

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.

The following topics provide information about the types of operations that Unidrv allows rendering plug-ins to perform:

Customized Color Formats

Customized Halftoning

Customized Data Stream Compression

Customized Data Stream Filtering

Customized Font Management

Dynamically Generated Printer Commands

Handling Device-Managed Surfaces