About printing properties and fetchinf the data from printspooler

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

Hi, I've been working on small project which should monitor print queues using c#. The thing that I'm strugling is how to take number of copies and totalpages before printing using c#? I used ManagementObject properties but it did another job which I don't expect.
Could you help?
Thanks beforehand :)

What I have tried:

I've tried to call TotalPages property through ManagementObject instance but it shows every time zero. Is there any way to overcome this?

Posted 15-Feb-16 4:26am

Little@Knight

Add a Solution

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Duncan Edwards Jones · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-15T05:15:00

Solution 1

Not really, no.

You are reading the properties of the print job as it is added to the spooler.

At this point the spooler / print subsystem does not know how many pages it is going to receive because it is receiving them asynchronously...what you need to do is pause the print side until the whole job is spooled and at that point you can check how many pages are in it.

Posted 15-Feb-16 5:15am

Duncan Edwards Jones

Comments

Little@Knight 21-Feb-16 2:27am

Thank you! :)

Little@Knight 21-Feb-16 2:41am

Did you mean pausing Spooler when a print request is entering to Spooler directory,
Another thing pausing printer when print request is sent to Spooler?

Duncan Edwards Jones 21-Feb-16 2:49am

Set the printer status to paused until the whole job is in the spooler - there is also a flag in the advanced settings to prevent printing before the entire file is spooled.

Little@Knight 21-Feb-16 4:31am

The concise description of my target is that my code worked well in pausing, resuming and cancelling jobs with "HP ePrint" because the printer is Paused automatically I couldn't get how it's done, but anyway it (that printer) didn't even show number of pages actually it must show also number of pages of document, user, time and state of printer at printer folder, however it didn't show number of pages.
Then I created another printer at printer folder/faxes then it showed number of pages but I couldn't pause or cancel job with my code:(
There should be general solution I think...

Little@Knight 23-Feb-16 8:42am

Hi, your suggestion was very efficient. I could pause the printer using a code and got TotalPages. But there is another issue that using ManagementObject I couldn't take number of "copies". Is there any way to get it???
Thanks in advance :)