Printing to various network printers...

[Alex]

Hi,

I'm writing an app to run on a server, hopefully autmated, and every 5
minutes it needs to hit a database and if any new records have been
entered, print the record to a printer depending on certain criteria.
I'm not sure if I'll handle timing through the app or through Windows
Scheduler... but that's outside my question here.

All our printers are Jetdirect compliant printers and on our network
as \\printserver\printername or I can print directly to IP if that's
an option. My goal is to have a table containing all the printers
(whether by UNC or IP) and give each printer a unique ID, then a
second table will contain the data to print plus a PrinterID field for
VB so it knows which printer to send the output to.

My question is within VB, how do I send the print job directly to a
specific printer, bypassing the default printer? I did this years ago
in VB6, but I've never done it in VB.Net. I'm usign VB 2005 also, and
hopefully this'll be setup via Winforms.

Thanks --

Alex

[kimiraikkonen]

On Jan 18, 5:28 pm, Alex <[e-mail]:

Hi,

I'm writing an app to run on a server, hopefully autmated, and every 5
minutes it needs to hit a database and if any new records have been
entered, print the record to a printer depending on certain criteria.
I'm not sure if I'll handle timing through the app or through Windows
Scheduler... but that's outside my question here.

All our printers are Jetdirect compliant printers and on our network
as \\printserver\printername or I can print directly to IP if that's
an option. My goal is to have a table containing all the printers
(whether by UNC or IP) and give each printer a unique ID, then a
second table will contain the data to print plus a PrinterID field for
VB so it knows which printer to send the output to.

My question is within VB, how do I send the print job directly to a
specific printer, bypassing the default printer? I did this years ago
in VB6, but I've never done it in VB.Net. I'm usign VB 2005 also, and
hopefully this'll be setup via Winforms.

Thanks --

Alex

Some links you may want to see:
http://www.startvbdotnet.com/controls/printdialog.aspx
http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Upload...nginVBNET.aspx
http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usin...rintvb2005.htm

has good info on printing.

That controls must let you to select a specific printer rather than
default printer.