Controlling Color Management
Important
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 the Print support app design guide.
Color management for a printer can be controlled by an application, the system (GDI), the driver, or device hardware. The driver determines which component is managing color correction by examining flags within the BRUSHOBJ and XLATEOBJ structures that are passed to its implementations of graphics DDI drawing functions. The following flags are defined:
| Flag | Definition |
|---|---|
| BR_DEVICE_ICM in BRUSHOBJ XO_DEVICE_ICM in XLATEOBJ |
Color management is being performed by the driver or the device. |
| BR_HOST_ICM in BRUSHOBJ XO_HOST_ICM in XLATEOBJ |
Color management is being performed by the application or the system (GDI). |
The following topics describe driver support for these color management scenarios:
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