c# check printer status

Question

in my application (Windows 7, VS2010) i have to decrement a credit counter after successfully printing an image. Anyway, before starting the entire process, i\'d like to kno

Answer 1

You can do this with printer queues as @mark_h pointed out above.

However, if your printer is not the default printer you need to load that printer's queue instead. What you need to do instead of calling server.DefaultPrintQueue you would need to load the correct queue by calling GetPrintQueue() then pass it the printer name and an empty string array.

//Get local print server
var server = new LocalPrintServer();

//Load queue for correct printer
PrintQueue queue = server.GetPrintQueue(PrinterName, new string[0] { }); 

//Check some properties of printQueue    
bool isInError = queue.IsInError;
bool isOutOfPaper = queue.IsOutOfPaper;
bool isOffline = queue.IsOffline;
bool isBusy = queue.IsBusy;