Need Printer Details   

Hi All,

I want to get details of printer like vendor, product, serial no., IP 
address(for N/W printers) and MAC address.

I have seen Win Spooler APIs like GetPrinter(), EnumPrinter() and 
PRINTER_INFO_2 structure, however none of them gives above mentioned 
parameters.

Above mentioned attributes are vailable in registry, but as registry can not 
reliable source to get theses details with consistency it is not ood option.

Can we get these details from printer or any other source.
Please let me know which win API or windows method I need to use for this 
purpose.

Thanks,
Ajay

date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 02:00:00 -0700   author:   Ajay Shinde

Re: Need Printer Details   

The Win32_Printer WMI class may get you some of that information.

Mark

-- 
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++


"Ajay Shinde"  wrote in message 
news:C662A8C9-B2F0-4482-8244-36375A89FD07@microsoft.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I want to get details of printer like vendor, product, serial no., IP
> address(for N/W printers) and MAC address.
>
> I have seen Win Spooler APIs like GetPrinter(), EnumPrinter() and
> PRINTER_INFO_2 structure, however none of them gives above mentioned
> parameters.
>
> Above mentioned attributes are vailable in registry, but as registry can 
> not
> reliable source to get theses details with consistency it is not ood 
> option.
>
> Can we get these details from printer or any other source.
> Please let me know which win API or windows method I need to use for this
> purpose.
>
> Thanks,
> Ajay
>

date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:42:59 -0700   author:   Mark Salsbery [MVP] MarkSalsbery[MVP]@newsgroup.nospam

Re: Need Printer Details   

Thanks mark for your reply.

I verified Win32_Printer class details.
Using this class we can identify whether printer is local printer or N/W 
printer.
Details like vendor, product, serial no., IP address(for N/W printers) and 
MAC address are not available in this class.
I verified other classes like Win32_PrinterController, 
Win32_PrinterConfiguration, Win32_PrinterDriver also but required details are 
not available.

Any idea to get these details.

I shall try with Win32_TCPIPPrinterPort to see whether we can have IP 
address(for N/W printers) and MAC address.

Please suggest.

Thanks,
Ajay




"Mark Salsbery [MVP]" wrote:

> The Win32_Printer WMI class may get you some of that information.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -- 
> Mark Salsbery
> Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
> 
> 
> "Ajay Shinde"  wrote in message 
> news:C662A8C9-B2F0-4482-8244-36375A89FD07@microsoft.com...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I want to get details of printer like vendor, product, serial no., IP
> > address(for N/W printers) and MAC address.
> >
> > I have seen Win Spooler APIs like GetPrinter(), EnumPrinter() and
> > PRINTER_INFO_2 structure, however none of them gives above mentioned
> > parameters.
> >
> > Above mentioned attributes are vailable in registry, but as registry can 
> > not
> > reliable source to get theses details with consistency it is not ood 
> > option.
> >
> > Can we get these details from printer or any other source.
> > Please let me know which win API or windows method I need to use for this
> > purpose.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ajay
> >

date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 06:34:00 -0700   author:   Ajay Shinde