Can the status of a printer be checked programtically in c#

[Bob]

Greetings,

I have a written an app that checks to see what printers are available to a
machine, it then populates a combobox and allows the user to choose any of
the printers.

Basically I populate a list using PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters string
array

Is there a way to check the online status of any of these printers ... I
created a method that can 'ping' the IP address .. but I dont know what IP
address they are at so no joy there.

Is there a way to 'programatically' query the printer name / port to its IP
address or is there another way to check whether a printer is alive, dead or
having 'issues'.

regards Bob.

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Bob,

Have u tried smth from there http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dotnet+printer+status
?

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B... I created a method that can 'ping' the IP address .. but I dont
Bknow what IP address they are at so no joy there.
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BIs there a way to 'programatically' query the printer name / port to
Bits IP address or is there another way to check whether a printer is
Balive, dead or having 'issues'.

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