How do I get the Printer status?

How to get the printer status in WPF?

• Here is how I print my flowdocument: PrintDialog pd = new PrintDialog(); LocalPrintServer local = new LocalPrintServer(); PrintQueue pq = local.DefaultPrintQueue;//GetPrintQueue("[Printer Name]"); //e.g. local.GetPrintQueue("Microsoft XPS Document Writer"); pd.PrintQueue = pq; PrintTicket pt = pq.DefaultPrintTicket; pt.PageMediaSize = new PageMediaSize(PageMediaSizeName.ISOA5);// or we can specify the custom size(width, height) here pd.PrintTicket = pt; pt.PageBorderless = PageBorderless.Borderless; pt.PageOrientation = PageOrientation.ReversePortrait; PrintCapabilities capabilities = pd.PrintQueue.GetPrintCapabilities(pd.PrintTicket); double sizeWidth = capabilities.PageImageableArea.ExtentWidth; double sizeHeight = capabilities.PageImageableArea.ExtentHeight; var fd = new FlowDocument(); DocumentPaginator sd = ((IDocumentPaginatorSource)fd).DocumentPaginator; sd.PageSize = new Size(sizeWidth + 20, sizeHeight); pd.PrintDocument(sd, "My Doc"); // GET THE PRINTER STATUS IN MESSAGE BOX HERE.. MessageBox.Show(printerStatus()); // printerStatus() is a pseudo method to retrieve the status of the printer. How can i get the current status of the printer so that it will output, Printing, Out of Paper, Paper jam, Printer Offline, etc message???? Upon searching, I came across this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.printing.printqueuestatus.aspx However I have no clue on it's usage. Can you any body help me to get in with it? This print process is being running in a STA thread.

• Answer:

  you can check like this using System.Management; class PrinterOffline { private static void Main(string[] args) { // Set management scope ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope("\\root\\cimv2"); scope.Connect(); // Select Printers from WMI Object Collections ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer"); string printerName = ""; foreach (ManagementObject printer in searcher.Get()) { printerName = printer("Name").ToString().ToLower(); if (printerName.Equals("Name_Of_Printer")) { Console.WriteLine("Printer = " + printer("Name")); if (printer("WorkOffline").ToString().ToLower().Equals("true")) { // printer is offline by user Console.WriteLine("Your Plug-N-Play printer is not connected."); } else { // printer is not offline Console.WriteLine("Your Plug-N-Play printer is connected."); } } } } } pls go through this link for more http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/3dc9c424-424c-498b-b550-27d5d274fef5