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How to obtain printer's Status-ReadBack in VB???

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How can i read the Status-ReadBack from the printer's Buffer in Visual-Basic...
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Ron,

The only way I know to read a printer's status, is to interrogate the appropriate pins on the parallel port, for paper-out, off-line and so on.

Two good sources of help on this are Boondog and Lakeview Research at these urls:


Jim Brown,
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
My time is GMT+2
 
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