From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 6 Multimedia and Printing

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App printing concepts

App printing concepts

- [Teacher] So as someone who's developed apps of all sizes for organizations and corporations around the world for almost 30 years, I would say that this is one of the least powerful areas of Universal Window's Platform. Printing in UWP apps is a bit of a task and maybe that's okay and maybe printing's going away and the concept of printing is going to transform into something else but printing in UWP apps has it's advantages and it's disadvantages. But it really is a bit of a task. Here's some things to keep in mind. An app is required to register for print contract on every screen that needs to be printed. SO you're going to have to do this on a case by case basis. There's some ways to get around this to make it easier to create print helpers and things like that. But it is a little bit cumbersome to me. And only the screen that is displayed to a user can be registered for printing. So you're basically going to have a print button or some kind of an action area where you're going…

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