it does not have printer status but has afterprint print event
(recordprinted =boolean).So check that...
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Browse All TopicsIs it possible to detect a printer physical error such as a paper jam using quickreport? If so, how do you pick up that error?
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by: SteveBayPosted on 2009-01-27 at 07:36:02ID: 23477405
I'm pretty sure that QuickReports does not have a facility for monitoring the Printer Status. The QuickReports.Printer.Statu s property reports only these states: mpReady, mpBusy, mpFinished.
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I suspect that you will need to do this from outside of quick reports.
Here is a link to a more comprehensive printer status monitoring routine.
http://www.delphipages.com
You could probably use something like this in the BeforePrint Event of the PageHeader to stop or pause a job that is going to a printer with a problem.