Thread: printer access

  1. 10-19-2001 #1
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    Unhappy printer access

    Is there a way in VC6 to access an installed printer, which is NOT the default printer,
    without starting up the printer dialog ?

    Looking forward for suggestions,

    Peter
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    You can use EnumPrinters().
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  3. 10-22-2001 #3
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    Or GetProfileString() and OpenPrinter()

    Watch for the different PRINTINFO structs. (Win9x and NT/2000 use different ones) and for truncated printer names.

    (Do a search for past threads as there have been other questions similar to this, and there's code in the answers)
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