What's the best way to get the default printer in .NET

Question

I need to get the default printer name. I\'ll be using C# but I suspect this is more of a framework question and isn\'t language specific.

Answer 1

I use always in this case the System.Printing.LocalPrintServer, which makes also possible to obtain whether the printer is local, network or fax.

string defaultPrinter;
using(var printServer = new LocalPrintServer()) {
  defaultPrinter = printServer.DefaultPrintQueue.FullName);
}

or using a static method GetDefaultPrintQueue

LocalPrintServer.GetDefaultPrintQueue().FullName