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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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"Invalid procedure call or argument" when setting Printer object

I have a VB6 application that is giving an error 5, "Invalid procedure call or argument" when the program attempts to set the Printer object to a specific printer from the Printers collection. The printer in question is some sort of copier/printer…
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How to change a printer's PortName using c#

I've scanned SO and didn't see this question posted, sorry if I missed it and this is a repeat. I can locate the network printer in the PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters, and fetch the "PortName" property from printer.Properties, but just setting…
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How to retrieve a list of physical printers using WMI?

I'm trying to get a list of hardware printers attached to a windows XP machine by using WMI. What i'd like is not the same as getting the list from Win32_Printers since i'd only like to get printers that physically exist as boxes, getting rid of all…
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How to work on Bixolon POS Printer using C#

I've been programming an application that deals with a POS printer. The printer is BIXOLON branded, and I haven't found any SDKs for using this type of printers as well as no example on how to deal with it. Since I'm new to this type of printer, I…
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Node usb printer

Anyone knows how to set-up a USB printer for node js. I m not able to configure the interface for it . Here is my code enter code here const ThermalPrinter = require("../node-thermal-printer").printer; const Types =…
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Restarting a Zebra printer using ZPL

Is there a ZPL command to simply restart a Zebra printer? So far I could only find the ~JR command, which to me doesn't look like what I'm searching for. I just need a way to issue a restart to the printer without resetting any of its configuration.
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Wrong dmCopies value when printing from Microsoft Word

I'm writing tool, that monitors printers. I need to get printed pages count for the job. I'm using printer events system (FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification, FindNextPrinterChangeNotification, ...). I can get DEVMODE structure with dmCopies value…
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Get local printer list to change printer IP and default printer

How am I able do find all local printers of the machine where the program is running with a user that doesn't have admin rights. I need to remap the printer IP and set the printer as default. My idea is to use impersonation to do this but I don't…
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How to integrate Dymo Labelwriter Wireless Labeller Printer SD2008209 in Android application

My client has a requirement of an android application which can use Dymo printer directly. I have done some searching on google, as well as looking at http://www.dymo.com , but i did not find any development document and SDK for integration in owner…
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Delphi TPrinters.GetPrinters call hangs

I have an app that has returned an error report. The app is written in Delphi 2006 and hangs during startup. The MadExcept main thread stack is shown below. I suspect there is no default printer but I can't replicate the fault here. Anyone seen…
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LPR cannot find a shared printer on localhost

I have a Windows Server-based machine which acts as a print server. I've installed a network printer using TCP/IP port and shared it. Its IP is 192.168.4.101 (queue name MyPrinter), my server is 192.168.4.1 (hostname WIN-SERVER) I'm trying to print…
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Epson ePOS SDK checking for printer status real-time

How do I check for epson receipt printer status in real-time? Currently, I am using a scheduled timer to run the Epos2Discovery.start every 10 seconds to check for printer availability. printerCheckTimer = Timer.scheduledTimer(timeInterval: 10,…
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Receipt printer not printing longer than A4 with pdfbox

I am developing a POS application for my company, and I have to print to a receipt printer. Printer model Epson Thermal printer paper width 80 mm. My java thermal printer code not able to print long receipt(more than A4 sheet size). Its work fine…
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How can I use c# to set printersettings?

EDIT I have tried to reconstruct code I no longer have to show. I think it is just a klimitation of the printersetting class not exposing functionality that can be selected by using a dialog. It seems I should be able to configure and assign a…
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Finding if printer is online and ready to print

The following 4 questions didn't help, therefore this isn't a duplicate: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR I need to find a way to discover if the Printer that my system reports is available to print or not. Printer page: In the picture, the printer "THERMAL"…
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