3D Printers supporting Windows 8.1 direct printing API

Hi,
Does someone know which 3D printers have drivers that are supported by the Windows 8 API? (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/bg183398.aspx)
It seems to work with 3D System's Cube 2 (http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2013/08/22/3d-printing-support-in-windows-8-1-explained/), but I've tried my Cube 3 with, e.g., the 3D Builder app (http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/3d-builder/75f3f766-13b3-45e9-a62f-29590d5781f2),
and Windows won't find the printer.
Thanks!

There is a code sample on MSDN code gallery, you can try running it to find more information. https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/3D-Printing-Sample-b5b75c86/

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Set the fields: Choose Tools ® CCMS ® Spool ® Spool Administration, change the corresponding output device, and switch to the Output Attributes tab page. There, you can set the horizontal positioning in Horizontal move, the vertical positioning in Vertical shift. Positive values (> 0) move the output down or to the right. Negative values in the format xxx move the output up or to the left. No decimal values are permitted. For fine positioning, use MM (millimeters) or PT (points, 10 points / inch).
If a window in a form definition is to appear 1 cm from the left edge of the paper, the window will actually be printed 1.5 cm from the left edge of the paper on a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer. The LaserJet starts its X-axis coordinate system 0.5 centimeter from the left edge of the paper. On a PostScript printer, on the other hand, the window will start 1 cm from the left edge of the paper, because PostScript uses the physical boundaries of the paper for its coordinate system.
You can adjust the positioning of the output on the HPLJ4 (LaserJet) printer by entering -5 MM in the Horizontal move field in the second screen of the device definition of each HPLJ4 printer.
●      Setting Basic List Print Properties: Character pitch, line leading, type size.
To make these adjustments, you need to change the Printer initialization action in the X_ formats in your copy of the SWIN device type.
There, you can adjust the character pitch (character spacing), leading (line spacing), and type size with the following commands:
Property
SWIN Formatting Command to Use
Character pitch
ec is the type size in twips (20 twips = 1 point).
For example: eS200X sets the type size to 10 points (200 twips / 20 = 10 points).
The SWIN data stream protocol is an internal SAP R/3 format that may change without prior notice. SAP intends to make only upwardly compatible changes to the SWIN protocol. That means that you should always be able to use the newest version of SAPSPrint, even if you have not upgraded your SAP R/3 System itself.
SAP guarantees, however, only that the SWIN device type will function correctly with the development level of the SAPSPrint transfer program that is specified for a particular SAP R/3 Release.
SAP Printing Guide (BC-CCM-PRN)
Implementation considerations
The SAP Printing Guide describes the functions of the SAP Spool System. This system was designed to be used on various platforms. SAP provides its own spool service and a spool database so that users do not have to deal with operating system-specific issues.
The platform-independent SAP spool system is responsible for the output of forms and documents. The data to be printed is first temporarily stored (spooled), then formatted, and finally transferred to a host spool system to be output. You can control all of your output from the SAP System and do not need to arrange further processing in the host spool system.
The following are among the main tasks of the SAP spool system:
·        Processing and managing print requests
·        Administering output devices
·        Technical mapping of the output devices in the SAP System
Features
Among other things, the SAP Printing Guide describes the following:
·        Print Process in General
An introduction for users and administrators, in which the print process from document to printout is explained in general.
The focus of the introductory sections is the Output Controller (transaction SP01), which can be used by both administrators and users to manage print requests.
·        Spool Access Authorizations
This sections and its subsections describe the access authorizations required specifically for the spool system.
·        Possible Print Architecture and Print Methods
The various print architectures are described in this section and its subsections, that is, the different constellations of hardware and software components with the corresponding access methods: Each architecture also requires a specific print method, such as:
·         Local printing: The spool server (application server with a spool work process) and host spool system (operating system spooler) are on the same host.
·         Remote printing: The spool server and the host spool system are on different hosts.
·         Frontend printing: Print data are to be printed on the default printer of the users PC.
·         Printing using SAP GUI for HTML
·        Output Devices in the SAP Spool System
Output devices must be defined in the SAP System so that they can be addressed from the SAP System.
You do this using device definitions with which the devices are managed in the SAP System.
This link takes you to a description of these device definitions and their printer settings.
·        Spool Server
This section explains what a spool server is, how you define it, and what using logical servers and alternative servers involves.
·        Device Types for SAP Output Devices
Device types are explained in this section. A device type in the SAP system is the category of printer to be addressed. The information in the device type, such as font selection, page size, and character set selection is used to convert a document from the internal SAP format to a device-specific, printable data stream.
·        Connecting to an External Output Management System (OMS)
This section explains how you can connect the SAP spool system to an external Output Management System.
·        Maintaining the Spool Database
This link takes you to a section explaining how you maintain your spool database to ensure optimal performance.
·        TemSe Database Storage
This section and its subsections explain what TemSe is and how you can manage TemSe objects.
·        Analyzing Printing Problems
This link takes you to examples that will provide you with support in identifying and correcting errors
Printing from the SAP System
Features
Using the SAP output system, you can output many types of documents on output devices such as printers or fax machines: purchase orders, invoices, delivery note, payroll documents, e-mails, report lists, and so on.
Process Flow
Unlike most other programs, which forward print requests directly to the printer, the SAP System temporarily stores the print data. If you want to print data in an SAP System (online or in the background) and choose a print function, such as , the SAP output system creates two types of print requests:
       1.      a spool request, which temporarily stores the data to be printed in the system
       2.      an output request, which sends the data to the desired output device
If you want your document to be printed immediately on your printer without temporary storage, you must have made a setting in the print window for immediate output. In this case, the spool request and output request are generated immediately, and the data is printed.
If you want to temporarily store the data, do not choose print out immediately. You can display the temporarily stored print request (spool request) in the output controller and/or print it at a later time
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