BUG: UNIDRV Does Not Create Black Plane

 Last reviewed: February 16, 1995
Article ID: Q105499
The information in this article applies to
  • Microsoft Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK) for Windows, version 3.1

SYMPTOMS

UNIDRV.DLL does not create a black plane for a minidriver that has sPins == PinsPerPass == 1 in its RESOLUTION structure. This occurs regardless of the number of color planes and the setting of the DC_EXTRACT_BLACK bit in UNITOOL.

When printing using a four-color minidriver, the black plane is not sent to the printer separately. Black is created by a combination of the other three colors.

RESOLUTION

Some solutions to this problem are:

  • Do not use UNIDRV's Dump() function; instead, the minidriver could implement its own Dump() function that does black extraction.
  • Do not implement the driver as a minidriver. This would involve writing a complete printer driver.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in UNIDRV.DLL for Windows 3.1x. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional reference words: 3.10 286 other printers unidrv buglist3.10
KBCategory: kbprg kbbuglist
KBSubcategory: Dtwo2PrnUnidrv

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Last reviewed: February 16, 1995
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