Monitor printers

[Fredrik]

Hi,

I have a problem google or these groups has not yet been able to provide
an answer for, I could be missing something obvious. But I certainly
hope not.

I want to monitor all printer queues on the computer - and get a
notification when something changes (i.e. a new job is added or such).
Preferable without polling, but that is secondary.

Anyone got any idea on where to look/ask? Perhaps someone in here has a
solution and is willing to share?

// Fredrik

 

[Jani Järvinen [MVP]]

Hi Fredrik,

I want to monitor all printer queues on the computer - and get a
notification when something changes (i.e. a new job is added or such).

See here for a VB.NET example:

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/printwatchvbnet.asp

Hope this helps!

--
Regards,

Mr. Jani Järvinen
C# MVP
Helsinki, Finland
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.saunalahti.fi/janij/

 

[Fredrik]

wrote:

Hi Fredrik,


See here for a VB.NET example:

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/printwatchvbnet.asp

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Hadn't found this one...

I can probably make it work somehow, unfortunantly I do not have VB.NET
in my VS - so sorting out which file is which will be murder, to boot
the example test program crashed on start

// Fredrik

 

[Fredrik]

Hi Fredrik,


See here for a VB.NET example:

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/printwatchvbnet.asp

Hope this helps!

Managed to find it in compiled form at
http://www.merrioncomputing.com/Download/PrintQueueWatch.htm

Don't know if this is the latest version, but seems to work. Now all I
need is to make it a service

// Fredrik

 

[Duncan.Jones]

Managed to find it in compiled form athttp://www.merrioncomputing.com/Download/PrintQueueWatch.htm

Don't know if this is the latest version, but seems to work. Now all I
need is to make it a service

// Fredrik

The latest version and also a project that uses that in a windows
service is in a project called "PUMA" on CodePlex - see http://www.codeplex.com/PUMA

HTH,
Duncan Jones (the component's author..)