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Introduction to the Universal Printer Driver

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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 Universal Printer Driver (Unidrv) is the Microsoft standard printer driver for non-PostScript printers. The following topics provide an introduction to Unidrv:

Unidrv Capabilities

Unidrv Components

Unidrv Minidrivers

Unidrv User Interface

Unidrv Renderer