Change Printers

[Petric]

At the moment I use the VI Settings, to print a Fontanel. The problem is that it always prints to the standard printer. Now I want print it to different printers. How can I program that a printer selection will come, before it prints?

Thanks! petric

[xseadog]

Have you tried ammending the windows default printer to the printer you want ?

chow xseadog

[Petric]

Yes, that's possible, but I don't want change every time the default printer. I have to change it a lot:-)

Message Edited by Petric on 09-20-2005 11:56 AM

[unclebump]

You can use property nodes to get a list of available printers and the current default. You can also set the default. This is 7.0 format.

[Petric]

Thanks a lot, but I've LV 6.0.2...

How can I get the property nodes for my Version?

Message Edited by Petric on 09-20-2005 12:42 PM

[unclebump]

Here is a screenshot.

[Petric]

Unfortunately I'm not able to get the Pr.Printers property nodes all I get are this in the screenshot.

Or have I to add some ActiveX things?

[unclebump]

Sorry about that. What operating system are you using??

[Petric]

I use Windows XP Professional.

[Donald]

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@Petric wrote:
Thanks a lot, but I've LV 6.0.2...

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With v6, you may want to look at using Print Panel to Printer.vi found here which allows you to specify a printer or use a dialog.  Not sure how it'll work with XP though.

Message Edited by Donald on 09-20-2005 08:29 AM