Finding out status of printspooler empty or not
Finding out status of printspooler empty or not
In Vb6 we do shelling this
I use ( advised by : Steve Knight ) this to turn a printer(s) off line
cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Print
cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Print
this 5 total printers
Then start the job by setting the first printer on line
cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Print
Start printwork for this one
Now before turning next printer on line I must know that spooler for this first Job is empy at printer
then next job , etc.
In Vb6 we do shelling this
I use ( advised by : Steve Knight ) this to turn a printer(s) off line
cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Print
cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Print
this 5 total printers
Then start the job by setting the first printer on line
cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Print
Start printwork for this one
Now before turning next printer on line I must know that spooler for this first Job is empy at printer
then next job , etc.
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Good, can look for other options too if needed - there, e.g. might be more efficient way with Powershell but frankly if I can get a simple bit of text like that easy enough to parse as you know - between batch, vbs, powershell if you can output something you can check it even in old VB. Been good few years since I've written anything in VB6 but regularly have to parse info out of text files, XML etc. with VBScript, VBA, LotusScript due to having to solve 'not possible' issues.
Steve
Steve
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this works fine for me, the reason is i have a printer with 5 color trays, one output bin
have to print orders with lines in it wich has to go by department to some color output
now they must sort by hand 1000+ papers by color!
Thus i can make flow all offline run the program , everything is hold
When done , start first color (can count wich are the most during job )
then if spooler empty next color.
everything will be sorted then by color!
Regards Jack
have to print orders with lines in it wich has to go by department to some color output
now they must sort by hand 1000+ papers by color!
Thus i can make flow all offline run the program , everything is hold
When done , start first color (can count wich are the most during job )
then if spooler empty next color.
everything will be sorted then by color!
Regards Jack
Clever ideas, or you need a printer with multiple output bins :-)
Steve
Steve
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Its a Kyocera , max they have is 2 output bins, so no option anyway
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see while on hold this in >> redirected text
Task-id 224
Printer HP OfficeJet Pro 8710 (netwerk)
Document Testpage
Gegevenstype RAW
Status
Time 12/20/2019 15:04:37
Total pages 1
Total jobs in inventory 1
and when done this
Total jobs in inventory 0
So can do a loop with cscript prnjobs.vbs -l -p "Printer name"
untill i get this output file and start next job
Thanks again !