Hi

Is there any way i can check, if a printer selected is an actual physical device or just a software based printer like XPS Document Writer or Adobe PDF and similar devices

Tried to google it and only reference i found was that the registry should only hold the physical printers but that is not the case on my pc, since Adobe PDF is listed here..

/Finn

On 22-03-2011 17:11, Finn Stampe Mikkelsen wrote:
> Is there any way i can check, if a printer selected is an actual
> physical device or just a software based printer like XPS Document
> Writer or Adobe PDF and similar devices
> Tried to google it and only reference i found was that the registry
> should only hold the physical printers but that is not the case on my
> pc, since Adobe PDF is listed here..

Have you tried WMI and Win32_Printer and see if you can
distinguish in that info?

(like Network and PortName)

Arne

"Arne Vajhøj" skrev i meddelelsen news:4d89167e$0$23757$(E-Mail Removed)...

>Have you tried WMI and Win32_Printer and see if you can
>distinguish in that info?
>
>(like Network and PortName)
>
>Arne

Not before you mentioned it here, but been checking it out..

That lets me query the printers allright and go into details about them, such as portname and so.. But..

I've listed my printers and my network printer, connected via my router using ethernet, is listed with an strange portname and the
local property is set to true and the network property is set to false... That makes absolutely no sense to me...

/Finn

On 22-03-2011 20:08, Finn Stampe Mikkelsen wrote:
> "Arne Vajhøj" skrev i meddelelsen
> news:4d89167e$0$23757$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Have you tried WMI and Win32_Printer and see if you can
>> distinguish in that info?
>>
>> (like Network and PortName)
>
> Not before you mentioned it here, but been checking it out..
>
> That lets me query the printers allright and go into details about them,
> such as portname and so.. But..
>
> I've listed my printers and my network printer, connected via my router
> using ethernet, is listed with an strange portname and the local
> property is set to true and the network property is set to false... That
> makes absolutely no sense to me...

What can I say - I don't understand it either.

And Win32_PrinterConfiguration does not seem to
contain anything useful.

Arne