How to get Printer Info in NET

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In the standard PrintDialog there are four values associated with a selected printer  Status  Type  Where  and Comment   If I know a printer s name  how can I get these values in C  2 0

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Please notice that the article that dowski and Panos was reffering to  MSDN Win32 Printer  can be a little misleading   I m referring the first value of most of the arrays  some begins with 1 and some begins with 0  for example   ExtendedPrinterStatus  first value in table is 1  therefore  your array should be something like this   string   arrExtendedPrinterStatus              Other    Unknown    Idle    Printing    Warming Up        Stopped Printing    Offline    Paused    Error    Busy        Not Available    Waiting    Processing    Initialization        Power Save    Pending Deletion    I O Active    Manual Feed       and on the other hand   ErrorState  first value in table is 0  therefore  your array should be something like this   string   arrErrorState          Unknown    Other    No Error    Low Paper    No Paper    Low Toner        No Toner    Door Open    Jammed    Offline    Service Requested        Output Bin Full       BTW   PrinterState  is obsolete  but you can use  PrinterStatus

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As an alternative to WMI you can get fast accurate results by tapping in to WinSpool drv  i e  Windows API  - you can get all the details on the interfaces  structs  amp  constants from pinvoke net  or I ve put the code together at http   delradiesdev blogspot com 2012 02 accessing-printer-status-using-winspool html

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This should work   using System Drawing Printing         PrinterSettings ps   new PrinterSettings    ps PrinterName    The printer name      Load the appropriate printer s setting   After that  the various properties of PrinterSettings can be read   Note that ps isValid   can see if the printer actually exists   Edit   One additional comment   Microsoft recommends you use a PrintDocument and modify its PrinterSettings rather than creating a PrinterSettings directly

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As dowski suggested  you could use WMI to get printer properties  The following code displays all properties for a given printer name  Among them you will find  PrinterStatus  Comment  Location  DriverName  PortName  etc   using System Management         string printerName    YourPrinterName   string query   string Format  SELECT   from Win32 Printer WHERE Name LIKE    0     printerName    using  ManagementObjectSearcher searcher   new ManagementObjectSearcher query   using  ManagementObjectCollection coll   searcher Get          try               foreach  ManagementObject printer in coll                        foreach  PropertyData property in printer Properties                                Console WriteLine string Format   0    1    property Name  property Value                                      catch  ManagementException ex                Console WriteLine ex Message

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As an alternative to WMI you can get fast accurate results by tapping in to WinSpool drv  i e  Windows API  - you can get all the details on the interfaces  structs  amp  constants from pinvoke net  or I ve put the code together at http   delradiesdev blogspot com 2012 02 accessing-printer-status-using-winspool html

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Look at PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters

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Just for reference  here is a list of all the available properties for a printer ManagementObject   usage  printer Properties  PropName   Value

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This should work   using System Drawing Printing         PrinterSettings ps   new PrinterSettings    ps PrinterName    The printer name      Load the appropriate printer s setting   After that  the various properties of PrinterSettings can be read   Note that ps isValid   can see if the printer actually exists   Edit   One additional comment   Microsoft recommends you use a PrintDocument and modify its PrinterSettings rather than creating a PrinterSettings directly

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I know it s an old posting  but nowadays the easier quicker option is to use the enhanced printing services offered by the WPF framework  usable by non-WPF apps    http   msdn microsoft com en-us library System Printing v vs 110  aspx  An example to retrieve the status of the printer queue and first job    var queue   new LocalPrintServer   GetPrintQueue  Printer Name    var queueStatus   queue QueueStatus  var jobStatus   queue GetPrintJobInfoCollection   FirstOrDefault   JobStatus

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Look at PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters

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This should work   using System Drawing Printing         PrinterSettings ps   new PrinterSettings    ps PrinterName    The printer name      Load the appropriate printer s setting   After that  the various properties of PrinterSettings can be read   Note that ps isValid   can see if the printer actually exists   Edit   One additional comment   Microsoft recommends you use a PrintDocument and modify its PrinterSettings rather than creating a PrinterSettings directly

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This should work   using System Drawing Printing         PrinterSettings ps   new PrinterSettings    ps PrinterName    The printer name      Load the appropriate printer s setting   After that  the various properties of PrinterSettings can be read   Note that ps isValid   can see if the printer actually exists   Edit   One additional comment   Microsoft recommends you use a PrintDocument and modify its PrinterSettings rather than creating a PrinterSettings directly

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It s been a long time since I ve worked in a Windows environment  but I would suggest that you look at using WMI

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It s been a long time since I ve worked in a Windows environment  but I would suggest that you look at using WMI

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Look at PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters

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As dowski suggested  you could use WMI to get printer properties  The following code displays all properties for a given printer name  Among them you will find  PrinterStatus  Comment  Location  DriverName  PortName  etc   using System Management         string printerName    YourPrinterName   string query   string Format  SELECT   from Win32 Printer WHERE Name LIKE    0     printerName    using  ManagementObjectSearcher searcher   new ManagementObjectSearcher query   using  ManagementObjectCollection coll   searcher Get          try               foreach  ManagementObject printer in coll                        foreach  PropertyData property in printer Properties                                Console WriteLine string Format   0    1    property Name  property Value                                      catch  ManagementException ex                Console WriteLine ex Message

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It s been a long time since I ve worked in a Windows environment  but I would suggest that you look at using WMI

User · Answer

Look at PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters

User · Answer

Please notice that the article that dowski and Panos was reffering to  MSDN Win32 Printer  can be a little misleading   I m referring the first value of most of the arrays  some begins with 1 and some begins with 0  for example   ExtendedPrinterStatus  first value in table is 1  therefore  your array should be something like this   string   arrExtendedPrinterStatus              Other    Unknown    Idle    Printing    Warming Up        Stopped Printing    Offline    Paused    Error    Busy        Not Available    Waiting    Processing    Initialization        Power Save    Pending Deletion    I O Active    Manual Feed       and on the other hand   ErrorState  first value in table is 0  therefore  your array should be something like this   string   arrErrorState          Unknown    Other    No Error    Low Paper    No Paper    Low Toner        No Toner    Door Open    Jammed    Offline    Service Requested        Output Bin Full       BTW   PrinterState  is obsolete  but you can use  PrinterStatus

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As dowski suggested  you could use WMI to get printer properties  The following code displays all properties for a given printer name  Among them you will find  PrinterStatus  Comment  Location  DriverName  PortName  etc   using System Management         string printerName    YourPrinterName   string query   string Format  SELECT   from Win32 Printer WHERE Name LIKE    0     printerName    using  ManagementObjectSearcher searcher   new ManagementObjectSearcher query   using  ManagementObjectCollection coll   searcher Get          try               foreach  ManagementObject printer in coll                        foreach  PropertyData property in printer Properties                                Console WriteLine string Format   0    1    property Name  property Value                                      catch  ManagementException ex                Console WriteLine ex Message

User · Answer

I know it s an old posting  but nowadays the easier quicker option is to use the enhanced printing services offered by the WPF framework  usable by non-WPF apps    http   msdn microsoft com en-us library System Printing v vs 110  aspx  An example to retrieve the status of the printer queue and first job    var queue   new LocalPrintServer   GetPrintQueue  Printer Name    var queueStatus   queue QueueStatus  var jobStatus   queue GetPrintJobInfoCollection   FirstOrDefault   JobStatus

User · Answer

It s been a long time since I ve worked in a Windows environment  but I would suggest that you look at using WMI

User · Answer

As dowski suggested  you could use WMI to get printer properties  The following code displays all properties for a given printer name  Among them you will find  PrinterStatus  Comment  Location  DriverName  PortName  etc   using System Management         string printerName    YourPrinterName   string query   string Format  SELECT   from Win32 Printer WHERE Name LIKE    0     printerName    using  ManagementObjectSearcher searcher   new ManagementObjectSearcher query   using  ManagementObjectCollection coll   searcher Get          try               foreach  ManagementObject printer in coll                        foreach  PropertyData property in printer Properties                                Console WriteLine string Format   0    1    property Name  property Value                                      catch  ManagementException ex                Console WriteLine ex Message

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Just for reference  here is a list of all the available properties for a printer ManagementObject   usage  printer Properties  PropName   Value

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