How can I programmatically identify a Windows only printer?

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clyclopedic

Our application has the ability to fall back to DOS-era character based
printing. Of course, these days many printers can't accept ASCII characters.
There's an archive of discussion of this topic here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/119307-45-printing

But how can an application probe a printer using code to discover whether
it's a Windows only printer or not? The user experience is not a good one
when ASCII is sent to a Windows only printer. Thanks for any advice.
 
C

Chuck

Common practice is to assume that almost any modern ink jet printer is a
graphics/windows printer.
In theory, there are registry entires that show the printing capabilities,
and you may be able to actually query the driver.
 

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