Printer Support
Previous versions of Windows used printer driver messages called escapes and the Escape function to communicate with the printer. For the most part, in the Win32 API, the Escape function is obsolete and has been replaced with more specific functions, such as StartDoc, EndDoc, StartPage, EndPage, and so on.
An application must create a device context for a printer using the CreateDC function before it can print. After the application has a device context for a printer, it can start the printing process by calling the StartDoc function. The StartDoc function requires a DOCINFO structure that describes the document that is about to be printed (see the detailed definition of the DOCINFO structure under the StartDoc function later ...
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