how to get printerstatus ?

[Guest]

hi!!!

ive tried to use WMI to get printerstatus, but it always report status "Idle".

is it a way to get the status of a printer ?

 

[Guest]

Hi Geir,

Use WINAPI, there is a nice example http://www.kbalertz.com/kb_821769.aspx.
It may provide you the same result as you're having now but it's still worth
of trying.