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Pscript Support for Stapling

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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 Microsoft Pscript driver supports the following standard stapling features in PPD files.

  • *StapleLocation

  • *StapleOrientation

  • *StapleWhen

  • *StapleX

  • *StapleY

For more information about these standard stapling features, see PostScript Printer Description File Format Specification, Version 4.3, 9 February 1996. (This resource may not be available in some languages and countries.)

To determine whether the device supports stapling, the Pscript driver uses the following logic:

  1. If none of the previously-listed standard stapling features is defined in the PPD file, then stapling is not supported.

  2. If *StapleOrientation is the only stapling feature that is defined in the PPD file, then stapling is supported.

  3. If one or more of the previously-listed standard stapling features (other than *StapleOrientation) are defined in the PPD file and if any of the defined features is constrained by the current configuration of an installable feature, then stapling is not supported. For example, if the NotInstalled option of the DuplexerUnit installable feature places a constraint on *StapleLocation, and the printer's current configuration for DuplexerUnit is NotInstalled, then stapling is not supported.