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The API to access and manipulate a print spooler

A print spooler is a software package in an operating system that provides queueing functionality to queue documents sent to the printer to print.

A print spooler API allows a programmer to manipulate the queue of documents to be printed (a.k.a the print spool).

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Retrieve actual printer queue

The printer is a Network printer. Actually a normal printer connected using Ethernet. It's somehow acting as a printer server by itself. All documents sent to this printer disappear from the local queue instantaneously. I need a (somewhat) reliable…
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How do I programmatically disable the "Use Printer Offline" menu option in the print spooler?

In the print spooler dialog for any installed printer, there is a menu option to use the printer offline. Enabling this option means that all documents will be queued until the said printer comes online. The option I'm talking about: I do not want…
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Getting IPAddress with XcvData

I am needing to get the ip of the printer but am not having much success. Already tried in various ways. Currently my code is like this: void Spl::GetIpAddress(LPSTR printerName) { HANDLE hPrinter; PBYTE wAddress = NULL; DWORD…
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Getting SPL file with jobID

I am developing a print monitor in c++. But I'm having trouble getting the file SPL. After much research I discovered that I had to insert the path of the folder where you store the .spl files in spoolerDirectory…
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PagesPrinted field of job_info_2 not reliable for hp printers on windows 7, value depends on print processor

PagesPrinted field of job_info_2 not reliable for hp printers on windows 7, value depends on print processor I'm developping a print monitor, and for hp printer PagesPrinted is not reliable et has wrong values
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How to reprint a spool file using XPS printer?

I am building a program to capture printed documents and then convert these documents to xps\image. Currently i am using FileSystemWatcher to monitor the directory "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS\" and copy the spl files, make sure its not…
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I'm getting duplicated print Job on windows 7 client machine for shared printer

I'm having a pb with print Jobs for shared printer I' have a printer shared on win server 2008 And I'm using this printer from windows 7 client machine I'm developping an application that writes all printer notifications for all print Jobs And for…
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Why do I get ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED attempting to open a specific job using OpenPrinter?

According to undocprint given a job ID it should be possible to retrieve the spool file for the job using OpenPrinter and ReadPrinter by opening the printer using a string with format "PrinterName,Job xxxx". The MSDN documentation lists this method…
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Get number of printed pages using C# (system-wide)

I have been on this for almost 2 days, and I haven't accomplish anything!! I have been assigned to write a program to count number of pages printed on windows OS. As far as I know, I need to intercept printing events and count them internally. which…
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Getting printer used by default by a process

I need to print documents in a specific order. To do that,i use shellExecute api to print documents. Some documents may be quicker to print , so i have to wait for the document to be in the spooler before calling another shellExecute. For that, i…
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How to process EMR_FORCEUFIMAPPING and EMR_GDICOMMENT?

I am converting EMF to PDF, but I went into a problematic field. I have some EMF spool files, which contain some undocumented EMR structures such as EMR_FORCEUFIMAPPING and EMR_GDICOMMENT. The MSDN is not so descriptive about these records, so…
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the given path's format is not supported in vb.net

I use ESC/P or Epson Standard Code for Printers which aims to make bold. But I found there was an error "the given path's format is not supported". Is there a best solution? Thanks the given path's format is not supported Dim ESC As String =…
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Thermal printer Driver In windows

I am new to windows driver development, now i am developing Driver for our own thermal printer. So learn some Printer driver basics From MSDN (WDK source). Now i am printing with Generic TEXT/ONLY mode in windows .but i need to integrate my printer…
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