# What does the 'Enable Advanced Printing Features' checkbox do? The setting “Enable Advanced Printing Features” is a mysterious and often misunderstood setting in [[Windows]] printing that harkens back to the ancient days of [[Windows NT]]. When this setting is enabled then jobs are spooled in the [[EMF format]] and rendered on the print server. The option used to be called _Always spool in RAW_ in Windows versions prior to [[Windows 2000]] but was later renamed to “Advanced Printing Features”. Uncheck ‘Enable Advanced Printing Features’ to stop the driver from spooling print jobs in proprietary print languages in place of [[PCL]] or [[PostScript]]. Disabling this setting ensures accurate reading of the spool files of the print job. This will in turn enable several features such as precise page count and color detection, grayscale conversion, and watermarking among others. ## What features do you loose by disabling 'Advanced Print Features' Booklet printing # Sources [Disabling Advanced Printing Features | PaperCut](https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/EnableAdvancedPrintingFeatures/) [Windows Print Server Security Best Practices (cloudinfrastructureservices.co.uk)](https://cloudinfrastructureservices.co.uk/windows-print-server-security-best-practices/)