Printer availability

[John G Duffy]

Anyone know if its possible to determine if a printer is physically available (Remote as well as local printers)
Thanks in advance,

John G

[Clearcode]

It *seems to be* the case that you can only get the status of the printer when it has one or more jobs queued.

This can be done by using the GetPrinter() API call and filling the PRINTER_INFO_1 data structure. However, GetPrinter can return more bytes than the data structure PRINTER_INFO_1 so you need to allocate a buffer beforehand...

It is a fairly difficult thing to do, so I have written an article on it at http://www.MerrionComputing.com/Programming/PrintStatus.htm and also incorporated it into the EventVB dll that is downloadable from the same site.

HTH,
Duncan

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[John G Duffy]

Duncan,
Thanks for the reply. Not the answer I was hoping for but I can't have everything I guess.

John G