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The Carbon Printing Manager defines a set of APIs that Carbon applications use for printing their documents. For Carbon applications, this API set replaces that of the original Printing Manager. The Carbon Printing Manager allows applications to print both on Mac OS 8 and 9 with existing printer drivers and on Mac OS X with new printer drivers.

Adopting the Carbon Printing Manager This document provides preliminary information about the Carbon printing interface to help you convert your existing Mac OS 8 and 9 applications to Carbon. It offers code samples, detailed comparisons between the original Printing Manager and the new Carbon Printing Manager, and a complete Carbon Printing Manager API reference.   Extending Printing Dialog Boxes in Mac OS X (Preliminary) [PDF] This draft document describes how to use the Mac OS X Printing Manager's printing dialog extension (PDE) mechanism to extend the Print and Page Setup dialog boxes. It includes overview, sample code, and API sections. The PDE mechanism provides great flexibility in extending printing dialogs, while optimizing compatibility with new printing features available in Mac OS X. It works only for Carbon applications running in Mac OS X.