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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 IPrintTicketProvider::BindPrinter method binds a printer or print queue to a specific version of the Print Ticket schema. This enables the core driver to associate a set of private namespace URIs with a device.

Binding to a device enables the provider to cache certain objects and handles that it will use to perform future Print Ticket or device capabilities services for that device.

The IPrintTicketProvider::BindPrinter method is guaranteed to be called only once for each IPrintTicketProvider instance.

The following sample code illustrates the method's arguments.

STDMETHODIMP 
CPrintTicketProvider::
BindPrinter( THIS_ HANDLE    hPrinter,
                   INT       version,
                   PSHIMOPTS pOptions,
                   DWORD    *pDevModeFlags,
                   INT      *pcNamespaces,
                   BSTR    **ppNamespaces)