As dowski suggested, you could use WMI to get printer properties. The following code displays all properties for a given printer name. Among them you will find: PrinterStatus, Comment, Location, DriverName, PortName, etc.
As an alternative to WMI you can get fast accurate results by tapping in to WinSpool.drv (i.e. Windows API) - you can get all the details on the interfaces, structs & constants from pinvoke.net, or I've put the code together at -printer-status-using-winspool.html
Get Printer Driver By Printer Name Vb Net Data
Typically, you access a PrinterSettings through PrintDocument.PrinterSettings or PageSettings.PrinterSettings properties to modify printer settings. The most common printer setting is PrinterName, which specifies the printer to print to.
Print Management provides up-to-the-minute details about the status of printers and print servers on the network. You can use Print Management to install printer connections to a group of client computers simultaneously. Print Management can help you find printers that have an error condition by using filters. It can also send e-mail notifications or run scripts when a printer or print server needs attention. On printer models that provide a printer Web page, Print Management has access to more data, such as toner and paper levels, which you can manage from remote locations, if needed.
To remove a printer with Windows PowerShell, I use the Remove-Printer function from the PrinterManagement module. There are two ways to use the Remove-Printer function:
What this means is that if I type the exact printer name, I can use the Remove-Printer function directly. It also tells me that I can pipe a printer object to the function. By pipelining a printer object, I can use wildcard characters.
I usually begin things by using a Get type of command. So the first thing I do is use the Get-Printer function to see what printers are defined. The command is shown here:
I can use the Remove-Printer function directly to remove a printer if I know the exact name. If I am unsure of the printer name, I use the Get-Printer function to list my printers, and I copy and paste the name. With quick edit mode turned on, I can highlight the printer name with my mouse, press ENTER to copy it to the clipboard, and then right-click to paste it. This is shown in the image that follows.
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This would be SP 26 or higher.Please Review this Wiki for how to upgrade: +Reports%2C+Developer+for+Visual+Studio+Downloads\",\"author\":\"username\":\"pguss_sri\",\"displayName\":\"Patrick Guss\",\"groupIcons\":[],\"suspended\":false,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":13576975,\"posted\":1644327422000,\"votes\":0,\"isAccepted\":false,\"isLocked\":false,\"userVoted\":\"\",\"relations\":\"canCancelAccept\":false,\"canUnlock\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canLock\":false,\"canAccept\":false,\"type\":\"answer\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"attachments\":[],\"body\":\"On my WIKI page I wrote a simple Printer test app:Printing Crystal Reports in .NETSave the report with data and see if that works using both P2P and POC routines.Don\",\"author\":\"username\":\"don.williams\",\"displayName\":\"Don Williams\",\"groupIcons\":[\"name\":\"moderator\",\"title\":\"This user is an SAP Moderator\",\"priority\":20,\"name\":\"employee\",\"title\":\"This user is an SAP Employee\",\"priority\":21],\"suspended\":false,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":13585222,\"posted\":1644515442000,\"votes\":0,\"isAccepted\":false,\"isLocked\":false,\"userVoted\":\"\",\"relations\":\"canCancelAccept\":false,\"canUnlock\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canLock\":false,\"canAccept\":false,\"type\":\"answer\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"attachments\":[],\"body\":\"What do you mean by junk characters?If it's boxes itt means the font is missing.Take a screen shot of the viewer so we can see what you mean?\",\"author\":\"username\":\"don.williams\",\"displayName\":\"Don Williams\",\"groupIcons\":[\"name\":\"moderator\",\"title\":\"This user is an SAP Moderator\",\"priority\":20,\"name\":\"employee\",\"title\":\"This user is an SAP Employee\",\"priority\":21],\"suspended\":false,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":13583517,\"posted\":1644872940000,\"votes\":0,\"isAccepted\":false,\"isLocked\":false,\"userVoted\":\"\",\"relations\":\"canCancelAccept\":false,\"canUnlock\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canLock\":false,\"canAccept\":false,\"type\":\"answer\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"attachments\":[],\"body\":\"Cool report, not much help but it looks interesting...So are you using PrintToPrinter (P2P) or PrintOutputController (POC) to print?CR will not attach a licensed font when exporting to PDF, not allowed to.What CR or Adobe does is use Font substitutions, it looks like that is what is happening and it's either using some Symbol font or some none unicode font that is being interpreted to single or double byte.So what font are you using?Try a different oneTry exporting to a different format like WordDid you test using my Printer test app?What happens in CR Designer when you export and print?\",\"author\":\"username\":\"don.williams\",\"displayName\":\"Don Williams\",\"groupIcons\":[\"name\":\"moderator\",\"title\":\"This user is an SAP Moderator\",\"priority\":20,\"name\":\"employee\",\"title\":\"This user is an SAP Employee\",\"priority\":21],\"suspended\":false,\"isCurrentUser\":false,\"id\":13583683,\"posted\":1644937888000,\"votes\":0,\"isAccepted\":false,\"isLocked\":false,\"userVoted\":\"\",\"relations\":\"canCancelAccept\":false,\"canUnlock\":false,\"canUseDelete\":false,\"canVoteDownOrCancel\":false,\"canLock\":false,\"canAccept\":false,\"type\":\"answer\",\"canVoteUpOrCancel\":false,\"isCurrentUserAuthor\":false,\"attachments\":[],\"body\":\"The point is using my test app to see if it works, you can use P2P or POC to do the printing. 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Login / Sign-up Search Questions and Answers 0 vamsi krishna Feb 08, 2022 at 06:00 AM Setting PrinterSettings.PrinterName leads to printing of junk value on print of crystal report 472 Views Follow RSS Feed Hi, I am trying to print a crystal report in WPF C# by sending it directly to printer without a viewer .The user can select different printers based on a drop down .However when i try to set PrinterSettings.PrinterName="PrinterName" ,the printer is printing junk values.I am using VS2017,WPF ,OS-Windows 10,.NET Framework-4.7.2, 2ff7e9595c
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