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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Inaccuracy in showing installed printers in vb.net

I want to get all the printers installed or connected to the PC in dropdownlist. I've done the following code for that. Public Function FillddlPrinters() As Boolean Dim printersettings As New System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings …
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get list of all install actual printers not virtual

I want to select only actual install printers not virtual. foreach (string printer in System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters ) { MessageBox.Show(printer); }
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Batch script to display a message box when a specific network printer is selected

I am trying to create a batch file to display a message box when a specific printer is selected. I am not sure how I would do this as it is a network printer and therefore not directly connected to the computer. I want the message to say "Please…
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get HP Printer Serial Number via CMD

Is there any way to gather Serial Number info for HP Printers on Windows using only the CMD? I don't need a third party tool. What I need is to be able to query them from CMD. For the workstations I use the [wmic /node:COMPUTER bios get…
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how can I list all the printers in Active Directory using *principal (c#)

I need a list with all the printers in AD, I can list users, groups and pc's but I don't know how to do it with printers. Is it possible to achieve it without using DirectorySearcher. I used this code to list my users, groups, and pc's. Can I use…
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Unix printer output to a file

I am using this code in Putty on Win7 to print my file on Linux. lp -d myPrinter myfile.out There is no problem with this code, it works perfectly. But I am having some Turkish character problem. So everytimeIi change something, I run this code to…
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How to detect which documents the user is sending to printer?

I want to detect which files the user is sending to printer and to get those file's paths. I read a little about the "PrinterSettings" class, but I haven't found the thing that I was looking for. (link:…
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Printing in php with php_printer.dll

i am using php_priner.dll. I get print formatted text with different sizes and styles. my problem come when i want align text anywhere. not print any kind of text this is how I do it printing correctly $printer = printer_open("name print"); if…
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MFP/Production Printer meter reading

How to read the meter reading of printer? WMI- Verified every property of it still no answer. must be something else.. Manufacturer - Doesn't provide solution since they own different tools/ products for this. but I think this must be a simple for a…
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Which PDL Canon IP2780 can support?

i'm a developer, i want to write driver for Canon IP2780, i had known GARO UFR. but i want to konw which PDL Canon IP2780 can support ? like HP printer, i can find which PDL it can support, but i fond nothing about Canon printer. such as HP…
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Is it possible to create a windows service for printers?

Is it possible to create a windows service to know when a print request has been made and to know the status( Pending ,working ,completed etc.) Eg. Suppose there is an intranet .If a node computer is trying to print a document using a printer which…
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equivalent of `#use` directive from ocamltop in ocamldebug?

In ocamltop (after loading my file), I can run the following commands #cd "/afs/csail.mit.edu/u/j/jgross/coq-HoTT/";; #directory "/afs/csail.mit.edu/u/j/jgross/coq-HoTT/";; #directory "/afs/csail.mit.edu/u/j/jgross/coq-HoTT/dev";; #use…
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Invoking UPnP actions

I'm attempting to interact with a UPnP printer on my network. I can discover the printer, get the available services on it, and even get the list of actions available for a service. However, this is where I'm stuck. For example, there is an action…
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Installing Printers on Windows Embedded Standard 7 OS

we are Developing an application on Windows Embedded Standard 7 OS and We are using .net C#. One of the feature in our application, printing a report and we need to select a printer. On the device we don't have a CD Drive and Client don't want to…
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How to determine if printer is xps ? c#

How to determine if printer is xps? I found way to get property "Published" from wmi (it set to false if device is not physical), but i want to determine if printer is xps writer. Thanks
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