diff --git a/doc/public/tmpl/cairo-win32.sgml b/doc/public/tmpl/cairo-win32.sgml
index 97f1d4d5c..ab1de4e4b 100644
--- a/doc/public/tmpl/cairo-win32.sgml
+++ b/doc/public/tmpl/cairo-win32.sgml
@@ -7,7 +7,16 @@ Microsoft Windows surface support
 <!-- ##### SECTION Long_Description ##### -->
 <para>
 The Microsoft Windows surface is used to render cairo graphics to
-Microsoft Windows windows and bitmap device contexts.
+Microsoft Windows windows, bitmaps, and printing device contexts.
+</para>
+<para>
+The surface returned by cairo_win32_printing_surface_create() is of surface
+type %CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_WIN32_PRINTING and is a multi-page vector surface
+type.
+</para>
+<para>
+The surface returned by the other win32 constructors is of surface type
+%CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_WIN32 and is a raster surface type.
 </para>
 
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