How to get Printer Info in .NET?
As dowski suggested, you could use WMI to get printer properties. The following code displays all properties for a given printer name. Among them you will find: PrinterStatus, Comment, Location, DriverName, PortName, etc.
using System.Management;
...
string printerName = "YourPrinterName";
string query = string.Format("SELECT * from Win32_Printer WHERE Name LIKE '%{0}'", printerName);
using (ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query))
using (ManagementObjectCollection coll = searcher.Get())
{
try
{
foreach (ManagementObject printer in coll)
{
foreach (PropertyData property in printer.Properties)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0}: {1}", property.Name, property.Value));
}
}
}
catch (ManagementException ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
}
Look at PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters
This should work.
using System.Drawing.Printing;
...
PrinterSettings ps = new PrinterSettings();
ps.PrinterName = "The printer name"; // Load the appropriate printer's setting
After that, the various properties of PrinterSettings can be read.
Note that ps.isValid()
can see if the printer actually exists.
Edit: One additional comment. Microsoft recommends you use a PrintDocument and modify its PrinterSettings rather than creating a PrinterSettings directly.