Re: how to retrieve info about print jobs

2005-06-10 Thread guy lateur
Perhaps I should mention this: we have printers from HP, and they come with a tool called JetDirect. This allows you to browse to it and check it's status/stats. Maybe I should write something that automatically gathers the info from the printer homepage. Would that be a good/easy way to go abou

Re: how to retrieve info about print jobs

2005-06-09 Thread Guy Lateur
Hmm, this only seems to work for jobs that originate on the machine running the script. I really need something that actually gathers the info from the printers (net-based). Would that be possible at all? "Simon Brunning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/2/05

Re: how to retrieve info about print jobs

2005-06-02 Thread Roger Upole
There are functions for managing printers and print jobs in the win32print module from the Pywin32 package. Roger "Guy Lateur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all, > > We have several printers in our company network. I would like to know if it > is possibl

Re: how to retrieve info about print jobs

2005-06-02 Thread Simon Brunning
On 6/2/05, Guy Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have several printers in our company network. I would like to know if it > is possible to check the current print jobs/queues for each of them. That > way, if a user wants to print something (big), I could give her a hint as to > which printer w

how to retrieve info about print jobs

2005-06-02 Thread Guy Lateur
Hi all, We have several printers in our company network. I would like to know if it is possible to check the current print jobs/queues for each of them. That way, if a user wants to print something (big), I could give her a hint as to which printer would get the job done first. We're using win2k a