Number of Pages Printed

[lucyv]

Does anybody know of a way to watch the printer spool to see if any pages are being printed? My boss has me working on an app that is supposed to watch for how many pages are being printed and dynimcally store that number is a database.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-lucyv

 

[lucyv]

Sorry for any misspelled words.

-lucyv

 

[jebenson]

Well, it turns out that this is not a trivial task.

However, I found a link that should help you get to what you want:

How to monitor a printer queue from VB.NET

I got this link by doing a Google search for the following keywords:

vb .net print spooler

Try this search, as there were other interesting links there as well.

Hope this helps.

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[lucyv]

jebeson, I also did a search on Google and came up with the same links. I'm working on a small prototype to see if this code will work.

Thanks for your help & response!

-lucyv

 

[lucyv]

I can't seem to get this prototype to work. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. Can someone try to get this example working?

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

-lucyv