Printing Fundamentals
When you use a printer in Windows, you’re initiating a complex interaction involving the GDI32 library module, the printer device driver library module (which has a .DRV extension), and the Windows print spooler, as well as some other modules that get into the act. Before we start programming for the printer, let’s examine how this process works.
Printing and Spooling
When an application program wants to begin using a printer, it first obtains a handle to the printer device context using CreateDC or PrintDlg. This causes the printer device driver library module to be loaded into memory (if it’s not present already) and to initialize itself. The program then calls the StartDoc function, which signals the beginning of a new document. ...
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