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Programmatic Printer Driver Installation re-visited for Vista

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 04 May 2007 | View original

A long while back I posted an entry regarding how to install a printer driver programmatically by shelling out and using rundll32.exe to execute the PrintUi.dll which can handle a variety of print tasks including installing a printer driver. This code's been working fine, but it's been giving me some problems under Vista for a couple of reasons. The firsts issue is that I use the driver to install a PostScript driver so I can print a PostScript file to disk which later can be converted by GhostScript....

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