Grabbing the print Que

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Brian

I am attempting to have our EFS print server print
documents for a specific printer IP address to file where
the que'd file can be grabbed by another program and
used. I know how to redirect the printer spool to
another location, but how do i get the file to
be "printed to file" or saved in the que with a unique
name where another program can go and retrieve them as
they come in without the need to manually assign a file
name?
 
There is no easy solution for this. I would modify the DDK local monitor
sample to create my own port monitor which outputs the printer data to a
file. Then I'd assign the print queue to a printer port belonging to my own
port monitor. The port would be called something like "c:\files\port", but
the port monitor can actually generate a unique ID and append it to each
created file for each print job. So, the results of printing to that
particular queue would be c:\files\port1.prn, c:\files\port2.prn, etc.
 
Brian,
We have a product called Virtual Port Monitor
that does exactly as you describe. You can
download it at...

http://www.alphatronics.com/AVPMon.html

It has a post-print application feature so
that your app is run as an event to a print
job being completed. Check the web page for
a more exhaustive list of features.

We have quite a number of government
agencies using it.

Greg
 
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