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Matteo Meil
Matteo Meil

Reputation: 1353

Retrieve available sheet formats of specific printer

As I written in the title, I was looking for a way to retrieve available sheets format of a specific printer in C++. At the moment I can only retrieve the current settings in this way:

LPWSTR pName = L"My Printer Name";
HANDLE _printerHandle;
OpenPrinterW(pName, &_printerHandle, NULL);

LONG size = DocumentPropertiesW(NULL, _printerHandle, pName, NULL, NULL, 0);
PDEVMODEW info = (PDEVMODEW)malloc(size); //here I get/set settings
DocumentPropertiesW(NULL, _printerHandle, pName, info, NULL, DM_OUT_BUFFER);

Any help would be appreciated

Upvotes: 0

Views: 198

Answers (1)

Adrian McCarthy
Adrian McCarthy

Reputation: 47962

Use DeviceCapabilities to query for DC_BINS. That'll give you an array of WORDs, where each word corresponds to a paper source. (Look at the description of the dmDefaultSource in the description of the DEVMODE to interpret the values.)

You can also use DeviceCapabilities to query for DC_PAPERS or DC_PAPERSIZES to learn about supported paper sizes.

Upvotes: 2

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