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A program that controls spooling -- putting jobs on a queue and taking them off one at a time. Most operating systems come with one or more spoolers, such as a print spooler for spooling documents. In addition, some applications include spoolers. Many word processors, for example, include their own print spooler.

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Monitoring Print Spool Without Using Interop/Unmanaged Code

Background: I'm writing an application in C# using .NET 4.0. It prints a bunch of documents in a certain order. The documents are of all different types and are actually printed using ShellExecute with the "print" verb. To make sure the order…
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Simulate Printer Errors / Printed Pages Signals

I'm testing software that sends jobs to the printer queue and then rises a flag when they are successfully printed. It also needs to detect how many pages printed correctly in a failed job. Although there are many "Virtual Printers" out there, they…
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Windows printer spooler setjob function not working for Windows-7?

I am updating our "Printer Monitoring" application. Previously this application runs successfully on Windows 2000 server. Now we shifted to Windows 7 server. On windows 7 our "Print monitor" application crashes. When I debug it, I found that our…
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Counting the number of printed pages in C#

I am developing a print spool monitor to count the number of pages that are printed by a certain printer. I am new to this area, so I am using the following article as my reference. Print Monitor Now I have a requirement of counting the double sided…
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Programmatically set printer to bypass the windows spooler

Is there a way to programmatically configure a printer that prints to a file (local file port) to bypass the spooler service and send the data directly to the file ? I have looked @ prnadmin.dll (nothing relevant there) and WMI (nothing relevant).…
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Can I reprint a spool file?

Is there a way to reprint a spool file? I can't find any example or article to say if there is a way or not. edit: when i say reprint it, i mean to the same printer
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How can I use uWSGI Spooler in Django?

I'm trying to run concurrent tasks using uWSGI Spooler instead of Celery in Django 3.2.3, Python 3.7.9. I have found a few resources like this, this, and this, but nothing works. I have encountered many errors in this journey, and I have fixed them…
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Sample code for Windows RegisterForPrintAsyncNotifications in the Spooler API?

Windows Vista introduced notifications from the Printer Spooler with the RegisterForPrintAsyncNotifications function (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162919(VS.85).aspx) Does anyone know of any sample code for spooler notifications using…
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UWSGI timer and cron decorators running duplicate jobs

I have been trying to make the uwsgi python spooler work properly for quite some time. I have a setup in which I run a django application with two worker processes. I have tried setting a cron spooler (and a timer spooler) to run a task every ten…
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Default printer settings are ignored

Using Windows Print Spooler API's, we can print out XPS files. The problem is that the print spooler ignores the default printer settings. (We've given up on trying to apply printer settings. Default printer settings will just have to suffice.) For…
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File format of spool files with .tmp extensions?

In many Windows setups, when you print directly to a printer, two files are typically created in the windows spool directory "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS". A spool file "80021.SPL" and a shadow file "80021.SHD" are examples of these files. …
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How to receive notifications from printer/print spooler for every page while printing Excel sheets?

I've written an Excel add-in in C#.NET. When ever the user opens and Excel workbook and give a print on a worksheet, the excel does the print. There is only one notification that is raised by the excel, that is the AppEvents.Workbbok_BeforePrint()…
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Redmon starts application as user SYSTEM instead of the current user

I'm using Redmon to start a .Net application that reads data from stdin, then send it to ghostscript to generate a .pdf file, before wrapping everything in a .zip file, which is uploaded to an ftp server. The problem is, that under some Windows…
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PrintQueue.AddJob method doesn't work

I am working on an application where I have to put an extra line of text after original printed text. For this, I am using FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification and FindNextPrinterChangeNotification methods of Print Spooler API which works fine. I am…
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Checking Print Spooler status (running or not)

I need to detect whether the Print Spooler service is running. I can find various resources for VB.NET (e.g., using ServiceProcess.ServiceController to actually manipulate the service), but nothing for VB6. Is there any way to check whether the…
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