Basically as the title said, is it possible? I have a printer connected on another PC, shared across computer network.
Printer enumerations on Print Control object always succeed to enumerate local printers, but other types (Shared, Network, Remote) always returns zero, even though I've installed the printer on client PC.
Is there something I miss? The example file doesn't help.
Print Control - Print to shared printer on network
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+ 1 for this, If you work this out please share. I could only get local printers to enumerate as well, local printers are usuful yet most users tend to access network printers.
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+ 1 for this, If you work this out please share. I could only get local printers to enumerate as well, local printers are usuful yet most users tend to access network printers.
So I made it work -- somewhat, by making the network printer as "Default printer" in the system. Thus you don't need to enumerate it, Print Control will automatically pick default printer and send data to it.
But it's not really a feasible solution, because we are using another printer as default for work. -
So I made it work -- somewhat, by making the network printer as "Default printer" in the system. Thus you don't need to enumerate it, Print Control will automatically pick default printer and send data to it.
But it's not really a feasible solution, because we are using another printer as default for work.I agree it's not an ideal solution, as most networks have several printers to choose from. Plus it's a pain to restore the default printer each time, I've had to store the current printer in an alt value and then restore it after printing in one of my current projects and it starts to get messy.
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Interesting one.
You can actually use Windows DLL's for this using the DLL object. If you can't enumerate on a network, you could just have the user type in the printer name then execute it... I'm not sure on the exacts but you need to look at
RUNDLL32 and PRINTUI.DLL - you can use flags such as /y /n "\\Shared\ThisPrinter"
Alternatively, you could write out and then execute a dynamic batch file based on parameters you or the user gives it, such as:
PRINT /M:\\shared\thisprinter C:\thisfile.pdf
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Thanks Danny, I’m going to look into that. It could be just the solution I’m looking for
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