Printer Commands

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 GPD language provides a predefined command name for each commonly used printer operation. Additionally, customized commands can be defined for device-specific printer options.

Each printer command can be implemented in either of two ways:

The following topics describe how to specify printer commands in GPD files:

Command Entry Format

Command Names

Command Attributes

Command String Format

Command Execution Order