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Overloading the Printer Spool

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Juice05

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I am having a problem with an application that I created that prints out multiple Crystal reports. I am trying to print out 11 different crystal reports. these reports vary in size depending on the time of year. Some are as small as 3 pages while others may be as many as 1,200. What is happening is that during the process I get the error:

"SC3PS3Q.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created."

I cannot find an error log anywhere. I checked the event and application log and didn't find anything. I am assuming that the Printer spool is being overloaded. I was wondering if anyone has ever run into anything like this and if so, what did they do to elimate this error.
 
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I will almost bet that you are on win98. Yes I have run into this problem before and to solve it I had to create a function that waited on the printer while there was a job in the printer. Once that was gone I would send the next job to the printer.

Check out the following API's

OpenPrinter
GetPrinter
SetPrinter
ClosePrinter
DeviceCapabilities


I hope this helps. Good Luck

 
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Actually I am on Windows 2000. I will try this and let you know what I come up with. Thanks for the advice. You have any sample code I could reference? Thanks again.
 
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Upgrade to Sp2 on your win2k if you have not already done so.

Good Luck

 
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Could you please provide some sample code. I am working with this API stuff but I haven't had much experience working with them.
 
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I had a problem comming up with an example for you, so I went to ms and found this to ease my woes. This should also solve your problems also. I belive that you will be able to customize this easier than my simple demo prog.

I Hope this helps. Good Luck

 
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