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

The only solution that is reliable across all brands of printers is to use SNMP to query the number of pages printed and ensure that it matches the number of pages in the document sent.

SNMP OID for page count is 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.10.2.1.4

From my testing, every other strategy has had unreliable behavior (odd null reference exceptions when fetching the print queue repeatedly) or provided inaccurate status codes or page counts.