Printer INF File CopyFiles Sections

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.

When a printer INF file contains a file list section that is referenced by an INF CopyFiles directive, each file in the file list must be specified using the following format:

[file-list-section] destination-file-name[,,flag] destination-file-name[,,flag] destination-file-name[,,flag] ...

The destination-file-name field is required, and the flag field is optional. File specifications must not include the optional source-file-name or temporary-file-name fields that are defined for file list sections used with the INF CopyFiles directive. This restriction is required for installing print drivers from a Web page.