LabVIEW Printer Status

[jonvanjam]

Hello,

Does anyone know of the simplest method of checking whether ANY printer is connected to the CPU prior to printing.  If the first request is too involved, what about just checking if a specific port has a printer connection?  I need to do this check (printer connected and turned on) so that the system doesn't hang up (and instead returns an error) when a user attempts to print with no connection.

Thanks. 

[Darin.K · Accepted solution]

Here is a little vi which lets you choose a printer from a listbox.  It reads the list of available printers using a property node.  Hope this helps.

Message Edited by Darin.K on 07-20-2009 01:46 PM

[jonvanjam]

Hey Darin, thanks for the VI.  I think I'll just check if the PrPrinter reference returns an empty list and use that as my error check. 

[jonvanjam]

Just to confirm the details a bit here...If there are say two printers available while an executable is running, and then the default printer is powered off/disconnected offline, will LabVIEW automatically set the other printer to default when a printing routine is called? 

Anyone?