Print Job Monitoring

[Guest]

Is there a way in VB .NET to check and see if your local printer is out of
paper? I have an application on a shop floor and users don't have access to
the printer because it is in a secure cabnet, however they don't know when it
runs out of paper and they keep pressing the print button. I want to program
it so they can't print if it runs out of paper and am not sure if this is
possible.
Any help would be appriciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[Newbie Coder]

Playa,

You can use the PRINTER_INFO_6 Structure which has a
PRINTER_STATUS_PAPER_OUT'

Private Const PRINTER_STATUS_PAPER_OUT = &H10


Here's an article I found to return the paper out status:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821769/en-us