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==Print==

Windows Vista includes a redesigned print architecture,<ref>{{cite nameweb |title="Printing Enhancements in Windows Vista Print">[|url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/vista_print.mspx Printing|publisher=Microsoft Enhancements|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061119205628/http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/vista_print.mspx in|date=2005-09-02 Windows|archivedate=2006-11-19 Vista]|access-date=2020-02-12}}</ref> built around [[Windows Presentation Foundation]]. It provides high-fidelity color printing through improved use of [[color management]], removes limitations of the current [[Graphics Device Interface|GDI]]-based print subsystem, enhances support for printing advanced effects such as gradients, transparencies, etc., and for color [[laser printer]]s through the use of [[XML Paper Specification]] (XPS).

The print subsystem in Windows Vista implements the new XPS print path as well as the legacy GDI print path for legacy support. Windows Vista transparently makes use of the XPS print path for those printers that support it, otherwise using the GDI print path. On documents with intensive graphics, XPS printers are expected to produce much greater quality prints than GDI printers.