Re: Monitor Events of Printer in a PC's Network
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:58:52 +0000, julielaurek@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to use Java code at this point to monitor printing events from
this printer, like rate of printing, time of start, maybe even
anticipated time of end... that kind of stuff... So far, after
thoroughly befirending Google, I have not been able to find a way to do
so with the java print api. Does anyone happen to know if it's first of
all possible to do that, and next if I could do so in Java or what
language I could use otherwise? I really only (have begun to) know Java,
so I was looking into using JNI but I don't know what language to even
start from if I want to follow that line of thought...
s.o.s... =)
JL
I doubt that could be done. First of all, printing is amazingly low-level
API; the main high-level API I've seen is "choose a printer, change some
settings, and print." From a cursory examination of the Windows API, it
does not appear to have functions to do this. However, if you're using
*nix, the CUPS API might have functions that does what you want.
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