Printing: Developing Apps That Print in Windows 10

The Discussion

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  Here I was thinking "it would be so cool if they would announce I could print from my phone" and look at this! Awesome

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  I'd love to see some work on printing from Windows services, at the moment the only reliable options seems to be GDI. According to the docs GDI+ isn't supported from a service and printing XPS fails completely.

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  Were there ANY api changes for printing since Win 8.1? I was really really hoping for custom print targets. I cannot have users of my app printing to PDF or any file based printers.

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  @senloe: The API is the same except for the two points in the deck: there's no charms-based activation, so apps own calling ShowPrintUIAsync() and apps also need to catch exceptions around ShowPrintUIAsync() in case they're on a platform without print support.

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  Looks great, however I'd love to know if mobile printers, like Zebras, will be supported namely on Windows 10 Mobile. Key difference is that they mostly print variable length printouts and label/tickets using PAN like bluetooth.
  
  Feel free to contact me directly by email, we're a ISV focused on mobile LoB apps.

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  Hi, feel a little silly, but how do we access the links at the end of the video? Can't seem to find a link to download this as a power point presentation and the whitepapers look very useful!

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  Since people have asked, here are some links from the talk.

  • Developing printers that support Windows 10 Mobile

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  • Print Schema Specification v2.0

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  • WSD Print Service Specification v2.0

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  • v4 Print Driver Improvements in Windows 10

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  • Device Profile For Web Services Location Extension

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  @Alberto Silva: The mobile print stack presented here is designed for document based printers which can connect via Wi-Fi.

  Our IoT team added an API for point of sale style/receipt printers which might be a better fit for those kinds of devices. You can have a look at the API here, but I don't have information on which specific devices are supported.

  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.devices.pointofservice.posprinter.aspx

   

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  This has been very helpful for us as we plan our development for a solution that enables companies with large printer deployments to handle printing "natively" from Windows 10 devices. In the meantime, you can always use our solution to email the documents securely to print@<company>.com and just release it from the printer. Happy to give a rundown. - prat@breezy.com.