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# text

A string of plain text.

```
var text: String? { get set }
```

## Discussion

You cannot change the value of this property once drawing begins for a print job. The delegate method [`printInteractionControllerWillStartJob(_:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UIPrintInteractionControllerDelegate/printInteractionControllerWillStartJob(_:)) is called immediately before the formatting is set for the job.

Assigning a value to this property replaces the value in the [`attributedText`](/documentation/UIKit/UISimpleTextPrintFormatter/attributedText) property with the same string data, albeit without any inherent style attributes. Instead, the print formatter styles the new string using the text attribute properties of this class.

## See Also

[`init(text:)`](/documentation/UIKit/UISimpleTextPrintFormatter/init(text:))

Returns a simple-text print formatter initialized with plain text.


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