Color Support in Windows Printer Driver
Article ID: 141208
Article Last Modified on 2/12/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 95 Driver Development Kit (DDK)
- Microsoft Windows 98 Driver Development Kit (DDK)
- Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition Driver Development Kit
This article was previously published under Q141208
SUMMARY
A Windows 95 print driver is capable of rendering images into a 4-, 8-,
16-, 24-, or 32-bits-per-pixel Device Independent Bitmap format.
MORE INFORMATION
In order to support rendering of images up to 32-bits-per-pixel, UNIDRV.DLL
uses the services provided by the DIBENGINE.DLL shipped with the Microsoft
Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition (Me) operating systems. This can be specified by specifying the number of planes in the sPlanes box as 1 and sBitPixel as 4, 8, 16, 24, or 32.
However, if you choose to use the planar model sPlanes > 1, UNIDRV.DLL uses the DMCOLOR.DLL shipped with the Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me operating systems. DMCOLOR.DLL supports RGB format and, therefore, the bitmap is 3 planes with 1 bit-per-pixel.
REFERENCES
For more information, please refer to the documentation on printer drivers
in the Windows 95 DDK.
Additional query words: sPlanes Dibengine DIB
Keywords: kbprint KB141208