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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printerplusplus not creating the vitual printer

I am using Printer++ for the virtual printer. All was working fine. To rename the printer I uninstalled the printer++ and removed the printer from the devices list. When I tried to add it back, the application is installing but the printer is not…
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Polling printer info from a Windows print server

I'm trying to develop a way to pull a list of printers (names and IPs at least), from a Windows print server. I plan to use this info in an external PHP-driven status website, running on a Linux webserver, which talks to the printers individually…
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"Let Windows manage my default printer" is missing

Update: Based on down votes I got, I decided to explain why I am asking this question. I am writing a C# application that use the default printer. The problem is when printing in Windows 10 through my application, the default printer is not…
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How to ping, and export results for set ip ranges across subnets

I am attempting to modify a Bat file that i found online for my needs. @ECHO Off set startTime=%500% ECHO Starting the IP Scan FOR /L %%i IN (1,1,2) DO @( ECHO Pinging IP Range: 10.163.%%i._ FOR /L %%z IN (1,1,10) DO @( echo Pinging IP:…
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User is unable to see dialogs raised by a printer driver

I have a background process which is a .NET Executable which runs without the STAThread attribute. It is NOT a windows service. This executable is meant to run as a background process without any user interaction. This background process polls a…
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How to check the default output format for xps printer?

Starting with windows8, XPS Document Writer printer's default file format is "oxps". Default can be changed like it's explained here. Right now the two possible format are "oxps" and "xps". Is the a way to get what is the default file format for…
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Powershell - delete all but the highest number

Working on a script to delete all but the highest "Copy" printer (Microsoft and its infinite helpfulness creates "Copy" printers every time one of my remote users unplugs/plugs in a printer) on Windows 7 PCs. I have two different printer names which…
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Zxing barcode label supported printers?

I am going to use Zxing Java API for barcode printing and our users has different types of printers so If anybody knows the supported printers for Zxing please let me know?
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Get-Content not working to delete printers

I have about 300 off-site PCs (Windows 7 PCs, Powershell version 1.0 - so "Remove-Printer" is not an option) which have a number of "Copy" printers (thanks to Microsoft's infinite helpfulness in making a "Copy" every time my users change ports) I…
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Excluding root from prt_jobs

I'm making a program that will run through a printer server and cancel jobs that are hung. As of right now it outputs everything, and what I want to do is exclude root: Output: credjet-898837 cdd 5312512 Wed 14 Oct 2015…
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Is it feasable to translate a Chinese HP Driver to english?

I apologize for the naivety of this question, I've some programming experience, but none writing drivers. We have an older HP DesignJet 5000ps plotter. The only Windows 7 driver we were able to find for it is in Chinese... which works ok until we…
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How to select pages option in PrinterDialogBox

I tried to select the pages option in printer dialog box . I have used the following command. Printer dialog select flags [expr 0x0000002] . But it is not enabling the pages option in printer dialog box. Am i doing anything wrong?
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do all printers have same dmpaper_A4 value?

I am working on printer set up function. Microsoft has DeviceCapabilities API, let you retrieve printers setting information. The function uses dmPaperSize for paper size, DMPAPER_A4 is one of the members in dmPaperSize. A4 paper is defined as…
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Steps to connect Epson LK 300 II with python application

I have created one python based web-application. Basically the application is printing the customer bills as per their purchase. So I have created bill format but not sure how to print that by clicking on button print which i have added in page. My…
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RDP losing connection to Printer

Is there a way to restablish the connection with remote printer via cmd(without restarting spooler)? I work at a company whose clients use an RDP acess to a server. They use a local printer to do the job. The problem is that when the connection…
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