Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [printers]

A Printer is a peripheral which produces a text or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies.

Printers are routinely classified by the printer technology they employ; numerous such technologies have been developed over the years.

Based on the Print quality printers are characterized as follows,

  • Toner-based printers
  • Liquid inkjet printers
  • Solid ink printers
  • Dye-sublimation printers
  • Inkless printers

Source: Wikipedia (Printer)

553 questions
62
votes
7 answers

How do I know if PDF pages are color or black-and-white?

Given a set of PDF files among which some pages are color and the remaining are black & white, is there any program to find out among the given pages which are color and which are black & white? This would be useful, for instance, in printing out a…
Anil
  • 3,732
  • 5
  • 33
  • 46
48
votes
8 answers

How to get Printer Info in .NET?

In the standard PrintDialog there are four values associated with a selected printer: Status, Type, Where, and Comment. If I know a printer's name, how can I get these values in C# 2.0?
Nick Gotch
  • 8,739
  • 13
  • 66
  • 94
44
votes
7 answers

Bluetooth and WIFI Printing for Android

We would need a portable printer (handheld, it is important) that can connect to android phone via bluetooth or wifi. What I know currently: No standard printing SDK available for Android this time There is a non official SDK called iPrint SDK.…
Gábor Lipták
  • 9,169
  • 2
  • 50
  • 108
40
votes
3 answers

How to reload printers in coldfusion without restarting service?

This is my basic understanding of how to make a printer available to use in ColdFusion. Remote into the server running CF using the account that the CF service is running under. Open the windows control panel and add the printer. Restart the CF…
jessieloo
  • 1,567
  • 15
  • 22
15
votes
4 answers

Identify the original printer

I am enumerating printers connected in the PC. I done it using C# System.Printing namespace. It works well. But mostly it shows software printers like Microsoft XPS Document writer,Microsoft Fax etc. I would like to know is it possible to remove…
Zigma
  • 509
  • 4
  • 35
11
votes
3 answers

Is there anyway to specify a PrintTo printer when spawning a process?

What I Have I am currently writing a program which takes a specified file and the performs some action with it. Currently it opens it, and/or attaches it to an email and mails it to specified addresses. The file can either be of the formats: Excel,…
Immanu'el Smith
  • 663
  • 1
  • 7
  • 17
9
votes
8 answers

Can't add new Redirected Port in Windows 7 after installing RedMon

My operating system is Windows 7 32bit. I installed RedMon1.7, Ghostscript 8.71 and GSview 4.9; installations were successful. I went to Add New Local Printer in Windows Devices and Printers, clicked on Create A New Port, and selected Redirected…
Zerone
  • 556
  • 3
  • 10
  • 24
9
votes
2 answers

How to build a virtual printer?

I'm trying to build a virtual printer. There are already some answers like this and this. However my demand is more specific. I just want to create a virtual printer that can be added into the system and can be accessed from any application. On…
SolessChong
  • 2,847
  • 6
  • 35
  • 61
8
votes
2 answers

C#/.NET: How to add networked printer to a local PC account?

I'm using the WMI Code Creator to create code to add a networked printer. http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9847/wmicodecreatorwin32prin.png The code that was generated works great (under my domain account anyway): using System; using…
JohnnyRockets
  • 91
  • 1
  • 4
8
votes
1 answer

How to send print job to printer in python

I used Tkinter to draw some lines in python and I would like to print that picture to usb connected and/or network printer in Windows. How should I do that?
BK C.
  • 553
  • 2
  • 4
  • 13
7
votes
3 answers

Can ofstream be used for printing on a printer

Can ofstream be used to write on a printer? eg: string nameOfPrinter = "xyz"; ofstream onPrinter(nameOfPrinter); onPrinter << "Printing.... "; If I do as above will I get the output by the printer (on the paper) ? If not, why I won't get the…
Suhail Gupta
  • 19,563
  • 57
  • 170
  • 298
7
votes
3 answers

How to print image from wifi printer?

I am working on an app in which there is an option to print the badges. Currently I am using BrotherPrinterSDK but it will restrict the functionality for Brother Printers only. Can anyone help me with a demo to find a list of nearby wifi printers…
Kartika Vij
  • 203
  • 1
  • 17
7
votes
0 answers

Simulate Printer Errors / Printed Pages Signals

I'm testing software that sends jobs to the printer queue and then rises a flag when they are successfully printed. It also needs to detect how many pages printed correctly in a failed job. Although there are many "Virtual Printers" out there, they…
マルちゃん だよ
  • 1,654
  • 3
  • 17
  • 25
6
votes
1 answer

Java - List all network printers on LAN

I need to use Java to get a list of all the IP addresses on the LAN which belong to network printers. I don't need to print to the printers, I just need to find all of them. This is for an android application. Just to be clear, I'm not trying to…
QRohlf
  • 2,655
  • 3
  • 20
  • 27
6
votes
0 answers

How to send data (>64 bytes) to HID printer on Windows

I am currently trying to send a string of arbitrary length to a Boca FGL46 Thermal Printer (A HID Printer) with java. On MacOS this works without issue; A 100 byte payload leads to a 100 byte output report. On windows, however, the output report is…
Kyle Berezin
  • 517
  • 3
  • 16
1
2 3
…
36 37