jack niekerk

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Yes that works,<br />
see while on hold this in &gt;&gt;&nbsp;redirected text<br />
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Task-id 224<br />
Printer HP OfficeJet Pro 8710 (netwerk)<br />
Document Testpage<br />
Gegevenstype RAW<br />
Status <br />
Time 12/20/2019 15:04:37<br />
Total pages 1<br />
Total &nbsp;jobs in inventory 1<br />
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and when done this<br />
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Total &nbsp;jobs in inventory 0<br />
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So can do a loop with cscript prnjobs.vbs -l -p &quot;Printer name&quot;<br />
untill i get this &nbsp;output file and start next job<br />
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Thanks again !
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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. &nbsp;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.<br />
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Steve
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this works fine for me, &nbsp;the reason is i have a printer with 5 color trays, one output bin<br />
have to &nbsp;print orders with lines in it wich has to go by department to some color output<br />
now they must sort by hand &nbsp;1000+ &nbsp;papers by color!<br />
Thus i can make flow all offline &nbsp;run the program , everything is hold<br />
When done , start first color &nbsp; (can count wich are the most during job )<br />
then if spooler empty next color. &nbsp;<br />
everything will be sorted then by color!<br />
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Regards Jack
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Clever ideas, or you need a printer with multiple output bins :-)<br />
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Steve
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Its a Kyocera , max they have is 2 output bins, so no option anyway
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Finding out status of printspooler empty or not<br />
In Vb6 we do shelling this<br />
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I use ( advised by : Steve Knight ) &nbsp; this to turn a printer(s) off line<br />
cscript &quot;C:\Windows\System32\Print<wbr />ing_Admin_<wbr />Scripts\nl<wbr />-nl\prncnf<wbr />g.vbs&quot; -t &nbsp;-p &quot;HP OfficeJet One&quot; +workoffline<br />
cscript &quot;C:\Windows\System32\Print<wbr />ing_Admin_<wbr />Scripts\nl<wbr />-nl\prncnf<wbr />g.vbs&quot; -t &nbsp;-p &quot;HP OfficeJet Two&quot; +workoffline<br />
this 5 total printers<br />
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Then start the job by setting the first printer on line<br />
&nbsp;cscript &quot;C:\Windows\System32\Print<wbr />ing_Admin_<wbr />Scripts\nl<wbr />-nl\prncnf<wbr />g.vbs&quot; -t &nbsp;-p &quot;HP OfficeJet One&quot; -workoffline<br />
Start printwork for this one<br />
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Now before turning next printer on line I must know that spooler for this first Job is empy at printer<br />
then next job , etc.
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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\Printing_Admin_Scripts\nl-nl\prncnfg.vbs" -t  -p "HP OfficeJet One" +workoffline
cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\nl-nl\prncnfg.vbs" -t  -p "HP OfficeJet Two" +workoffline
this 5 total printers

Then start the job by setting the first printer on line
 cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\nl-nl\prncnfg.vbs" -t  -p "HP OfficeJet One" -workoffline
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.

Finding out status of printspooler empty or not

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