A program that controls spooling -- putting jobs on a queue and taking them off one at a time. Most operating systems come with one or more spoolers, such as a print spooler for spooling documents. In addition, some applications include spoolers. Many word processors, for example, include their own print spooler.
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Is there a way to print directly to printer from Java by bypassing Windows spooler?
Is there a way to print directly to usb printer by bypassing Windows spooler?
I need a get an immediate feedback is printing job was succeeded or not. When I send it to spooler and it stuck, I have no any indication did it success or not.
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Catch windows print jobs in C++
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I have a Windows XP pc connected to a printer. This pc runs a piece of software from where i create and send print jobs to the printer. Recently, the printer died and there is no way i can get a new one. The program is configured to…
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Implementing a printer spooler
We have an assignment in which we have to implement a printer spooler using linked lists. I have used the list from STL to implement everything. I can get the program to send the print command and maintain status of documents. The problem is I don't…
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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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how to put pcl file with correct name to win spooler
When I copy a pcl file to a windows spooler, I can't set the name and number of pages for this file in spooler. I do it from the commandline with a simple copy
copy file.pcl printer
How to copy the file to see it's name and nbr of pages in the…
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Mechanics of printing
I am changing default print settings using winspool.drv before printing. Do the altered default printing settings get embedded with the print job when it is printed? Or are they saved somewhere else? If I change a setting, what happens when the…
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AddMonitor 183 error
There is a simple code:
[DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint = "AddMonitorA", SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
private static extern bool AddMonitor([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)]…
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uwsgi unable to find the spooler function
I was trying to find out about the spooler mechanism of uWSGI and for that reason I've written a small, dummy web application with Django (version 1.3.1) and it is running on the latest stable version of nginx. Everything works as expected. However,…
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How to know, is Windows spooler empy, from .bat?
I have a PowerShell script:
$objPrintQueues = Get-WmiObject Win32_PerfFormattedData_Spooler_PrintQueue | Select Jobs
$queuesCounter=0
$queuesDetector=0
foreach($queue in $objPrintQueues) { $queuesCounter=$queuesCounter+$queue.Jobs }
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