Black Ice Printer Drivers API - Resource Toolkit
This is a DEMO version of RTK documentation with limited information!
For Windows 11/10/8/7 (32 and 64bit)
For Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012 R2 (32 and 64bit) & Citrix
The Black Ice Printer Driver API – RTK available only for OEM Printer Drivers
Black Ice Software LLC., has been licensing printer drivers since 1992 for software companies, system integrators, printer manufactures and corporate end users. The printer drivers are available for Windows 11/10/8/7 and Windows 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012 R2/Windows Terminal Servers/Citrix operating systems. The Black Ice printer drivers can produce raster images as outputs, such as TIFF or JPEG, or vector outputs such as Adobe (PDF) Format.
The Black Ice printer drivers combined with the Application Programming Interface (API) - Resource Tool Kit (RTK), offers developers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) the capability to integrate, customize, or build advanced document management systems. The API and Resource Tool Kit contains three different APIs and a collection of samples and utilities for sophisticated developers to build state-of-the-art business solutions.
In order to assist Black Ice Printer Driver users and developers, the Printer Driver’s API and Resource Toolkit package is provided FREE of charge with the purchase of any Black Ice OEM Printer Driver.
The Printer Driver Resource Toolkit includes a variety of sample applications with full source code, written in C#, VB.NET, C++, and Delphi. One of the most daunting task is installing a printer driver, to assist developers the RTK includes several sample installation scripts and many other tools that can reduce development time and make applications development with the Black Ice Printer Drivers simple.
The tools and samples included in the Resource Toolkit will help in the following areas:
- Printer Driver User Interface Customization
- Installation and mass deployment of the printer driver
- Programmatically Change Printer Driver Configuration
- Integrate The Printer Driver Into an application
- Programmatically Control and Query Print Jobs
NOTE: The Printer Driver Resource Toolkit DEMO does not include some of the source code for samples. The source codes are available for every sample in the full release version:
The Printer Driver install samples.
PrintJobControl
E-Mail Add-on
Print2FTP
Application Programming Interface
Installation/Uninstallation - Create printer driver installation
Customizing/Internationalizing the Printer Driver User Interface
Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q)