jtrit

Hello, all. This is my first post to this forum as I just discovered this site, so please forgive any bad form on my part. Anyway, here's my question...what would be the best way to capture print requests sent to a particular print server, regardless of app sending the job, and write data out to a database for accounting purposes? I'm envisioning a printing a doc from an app, getting a dialog requesting a billing number, then releasing the print job to the device. I'm posting this in the VB forum because that's the lang I use the most, so I apologize if this is misplaced. Any input is much appreciated.

Rory

You could write a dummy client program that periodically checked the print queue and wrote the results that way, but would involve complex API and probably some Active Directory calls, unless someone else knows of an ActiveX wrapper that'd do the job. Have a look on MSDN for ways of checking the print queue, but you'd be best to do it in C frankly!

jtrit

Thanks very much, Rory. I'll check into it further as you've suggested.