How to Get Printer Info in .Net

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);
    }
}

How to get the list of all printers in computer

Try this:

foreach (string printer in System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters)
{
    MessageBox.Show(printer);
}

Determine the IP Address of a Printer in C#

Check this question: How to get Printer Info in C#.NET?. I think that you have to get the property PortName from the WMI properties.

What's the best way to get the default printer in .NET

The easiest way I found is to create a new PrinterSettings object. It starts with all default values, so you can check its Name property to get the name of the default printer.

PrinterSettings is in System.Drawing.dll in the namespace System.Drawing.Printing.

PrinterSettings settings = new PrinterSettings();
Console.WriteLine(settings.PrinterName);

Alternatively, you could maybe use the static PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters method to get a list of all printer names, then set the PrinterName property and check the IsDefaultPrinter. I haven't tried this, but the documentation seems to suggest it won't work. Apparently IsDefaultPrinter is only true when PrinterName is not explicitly set.

c# printer properties WMI

According to msdn , Paper Out=5

using System;
using System.Management;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WMISample
{
    public class MyWMIQuery
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            try
            {
                string printerName = "PrinterName";
                ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = 
                    new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\CIMV2", 
                    "SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer "
                     + "WHERE Name LIKE '%{0}'", printerName);); 

                foreach (ManagementObject queryObj in searcher.Get())
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
                    Console.WriteLine("Win32_Printer instance");
                    Console.WriteLine("-----------------------------------");
                    Console.WriteLine("PrinterStatus: {0}", queryObj["PrinterStatus"]);
                }
            }
            catch (ManagementException e)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("An error occurred while querying for WMI data: " + e.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}

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