Printer Status

Question

Hi,
I want to retreive printer status information which is connected to a computer on a network computer.I want to get info about online/offline/busy/paper out/error/printing etc. Can i get the code for this.This is very urgent for me.
Also I am very new to .net.So please anybody can help me???

Mike Gold · Answer

This is true, You can try pinvoking the Winspool Driver directly.  Also check this  link on MSDN to see the available Winspool calls.  I suspect GetPrinterData will aid you in what you are trying to do.
[DllImport("winspool.drv", CharSet=CharSet.Auto, SetLastError=true)]
static extern uint GetPrinterData(IntPtr hPrinter, string pValueName, out uint pType, byte[] pData, uint nSize, out uint pcbNeeded);
Best,
-Mike

Rahul Kadu · Answer

Thank You Mike.
But i have tried that using management class but still i am not getting the correct status.
I heard like importing dll file i.e.winspool.drv would do but i am not able to do it.
So please can u help me???

Mike Gold · Answer

I suspect you can do this through the WMI functionality in .NET.  You'll need to perform a query on the Win32_Printer class.  Check out this article  as well as this article   as well as this article on C# Corner