Questions tagged [printers]

A Printer is a peripheral which produces a text or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies.

Printers are routinely classified by the printer technology they employ; numerous such technologies have been developed over the years.

Based on the Print quality printers are characterized as follows,

  • Toner-based printers
  • Liquid inkjet printers
  • Solid ink printers
  • Dye-sublimation printers
  • Inkless printers

Source: Wikipedia (Printer)

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Windows get shared/networked printers only

Greetings All! I am working on a java project where I am suppose to get shared printers in windows, I have a shared/networked printer: as you can see in above picture i have highlighted shared Icon. I have tried powershell and wmic (using…
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Android Bluetooth printer British Pound Sign(£) does not work

I am trying to print the British pound sign, "£", by using Unicode (\u00a3), but it does not work. I am trying to implement the open source project from GitHub. All is working well, but when I try to print the "£" sign, then it does not work [?…
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Shared printer is not selected as default

I am facing a problem - I want to set a default printer. The printers that are installed are working fine, but the shared printer is not getting set as the default. Below is my code: public class DefaultPrinter { [DllImport("winspool.drv",…
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How to obtain the "handle to the logical device" HDEV belonging to the GDI engine as passed to DrvEnablePDEV?

I am interested in being able to call DrvEnablePDEV for an arbitrary printer so I can examine the device information. To do this I need (on top of a lot of other things) the HDEV which is described in the documentation as GDI-supplied handle to the…
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How to send a raw IPL to intermec pm4i printer using C# via USB

Good Morning, I need to send an IPL command to usb printer, but I do not even know how to get started. Can anybody help me? the ipl code is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5fjx01OqT4KcUh0LVdkZEtfWkE/view?usp=sharing
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Local printers not visible from web application on EC2 Amazon( ubuntu)

We have a java-web application hosted on amazon ec2(ubuntu). I'm unable to redirect my printing to the local default printers. In fact when i try to get a list of printers visible using the below code The only printer service that is listed on…
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Finding Client Printer ASP.Net

From what I have read its not possible to find a clients local printer using modern browsers for security reasons. I have a few conditions that might make that answer different. I am trying to get clients local printers from within a company…
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Losing Multiple Printers in Group Policy

This involves an office that has a dozen printers. For reasons we want users to have all the printers available when they log in. I've been working on a group policy to accomplish this. I will add multiple printers to the GPO in the Group Policy…
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printer communite(bat) with webapi(php)

I need to communicate a printer (zebra) with an api (php). Example, you have a new data on the server, you must have a baton that checks this every 10 seconds, and send the file to the printer (the printer is on the computer). But I have no idea how…
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PowerShell Script to Change Printer Drivers on Several Printers

I'm trying to make a PowerShell script that will change all the drivers for a specific set of printers. I have about 200 printers whose name begins with the letter Z. I also have a handful of printers that don't begin with the letter Z. What i'm…
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Getting in python in advance the number of pages after printing a document

My printer does not support two-sides printing, therefore I make a simple script in Python based on lpr utility. It prints documents page by page with delays, during which I'm turning papers manually: from sys import argv from subprocess import…
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How list shared printers on server without admin rights

I wish to list all printer queues on a list of print servers in PowerShell (or wrapped native cmd command if necessary). The difficulty here is that I don't have admin rights on the servers, so I cannot use WMI to query them. I have tried to use…
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Java not get all printer network on ubuntu

Code working printer install local not working printer share or printer server. Please help, I want get all printer connect. Thanks all. import javax.print.*; class Test { public static void main (String [] args) { PrintService[]…
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Batch - Printer Instal, Local/IP, Prompt for Name and IP

I want to convert the following code to add the ability to ask for the printers name and IP, to be typed in, either in a pop-up type box or within the console. Basically, I have to go around to a couple hundred rooms installing a printer in their…
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C# - Get List of all USB Printers

How can I get a list of all the connected USB printers using C#? I need to show in a Listbox the name of all USB printers. Edit: System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters does not solve my problem, I need only USB printers, not…
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