paper tray and assigned paper form

[Herbert]

Hello,

what I need to do is find out what paper forms are assigned to the paper
trays of a given printer. I 'd like to do that either via VBA or VBScript,
either is fine.

Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated!

Herbert

 

[Jonathan West]

Hello,

what I need to do is find out what paper forms are assigned to the paper
trays of a given printer. I 'd like to do that either via VBA or VBScript,
either is fine.

Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated!

Controlling the Printer from Word VBA
Part 1: Using VBA to Select the Paper Tray
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=101


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[Herbert]

Hello Jonathan,

thanks a lot for your reply.
Although the page was very informative that is not what I had in mind.

I can enumerate all bins and all supported papernames for a given printer.
But what I need is to know what paper form actually is asigned to each tray:

Printer: PS001
Tray <= paper form
------------------------
1 <= A4
2 <= CustomPaperForm_xyz
3 <= A4

Any inputs on that would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Herbert

 

[Jonathan West]

Hello Jonathan,

thanks a lot for your reply.
Although the page was very informative that is not what I had in mind.

I can enumerate all bins and all supported papernames for a given printer.
But what I need is to know what paper form actually is asigned to each
tray:

Printer: PS001
Tray <= paper form
------------------------
1 <= A4
2 <= CustomPaperForm_xyz
3 <= A4

Any inputs on that would be appreciated!

Ah, in that case you need this article

Controlling the Printer from Word VBA
Part 3: Dealing with Different Paper Sizes
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=132


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[Herbert]

Hello Jonathan!

Thanks once again for your reply. Again, a very interesting page, but again
that's not what I need
The paper size is not the issue here, the name of the paper form is.

But nevermind, I will try a different approach. I found the information I
need to be stored in the registry of the printer server under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\<Printer
name>\PrinterDriverData\TrayFormTable

I only hope I can de-code it!

Thanks again!

Herbert