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Getting Started

A guided introduction and learning path for developers new to Mac OS X printing.

Mac OS X's streamlined printing system provides a flexible and powerful printing environment that is easy to use, easy to enhance, and easy to support. Quartz 2D, Mac OS X's powerful graphics and display engine, provides rendering and conversion services for delivering high quality printed output from your applications.

Developers can easily add printing support to Cocoa, Carbon, and BSD UNIX applications. Printer vendors can add support for Mac OS X by supplying modules to extend Apple's interface rather than writing code that overrides it. Read more...

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Essential information for developers using Apple's powerful printing environment.

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Printing Mailing List

The Printing mailing list is for discussion of application programming interfaces for Carbon and Cocoa applications, command line printing tools for Unix, the user interfaces for printing (Printer Setup Utility, the print dialogs, and their plugins), the spooling system (CUPS), printer drivers, PPD files, and so on.

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