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Resolved How to check if a printing is successful

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by FuzMic, 2016/12/17.

  1. 2016/12/17
    FuzMic

    FuzMic Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi gurus

    If I send a report to a printer to print, if all goes well i can check the status of the printer to see there is any queue still stuck, right?

    Is there another faster and smarter way to check the response eg
    1. A return value after sending the report that we can catch & message out to user
    2. A quick check with a .cmd to check eg dir %windir%\system32\spool\printers\*.*

    What say you?
     
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    TonyT

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    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Ummm, if all goes well, you can go to the printer and pick up the printouts.

    Are you saying this is a remote printer somewhere and you don't have physical access to it?

    For me, when the printer icon leaves my System/Notification tray area, I know the job is gone and printed. If there was some error (out of ink, out of paper, jam), the icon remains with a hover bubble telling me I still have X number of document(s) pending for [username].
     
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    TonyT

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    Same printer as with his other issues in several posts here, a point of sale receipt printer.
     
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    FuzMic

    FuzMic Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks guys for the pointers, Tony, great value to know more about wmic. Yes POS thermal printer that operates very remotely.

    I currently resort to Dir(Environ("Systemroot") & "\system32\spool\printers\*.s*") to check which is the same as Notification Tray.
     
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    TonyT

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    Is this issue resolved?
     

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