>How Check printer status (ON/OFF) in VFP 9 ?
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>as far as I not it was not possible to check real printer status in former versions

Try this.

strComputer = "."
objWMIService = Getobject("winmgmts:"+ "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" + strComputer + "\root\cimv2")
colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer")
For Each objPrinter In colInstalledPrinters
?"Name: " + objPrinter.Name
Do Case
Case objPrinter.PrinterStatus = 1
strPrinterStatus = "Other"
Case objPrinter.PrinterStatus = 2
strPrinterStatus = "Unknown"
Case objPrinter.PrinterStatus = 3
strPrinterStatus = "Idle"
Case objPrinter.PrinterStatus = 4
strPrinterStatus = "Printing"
Case objPrinter.PrinterStatus = 5
strPrinterStatus = "Warmup"
Endcase
? "Printer Status: " + strPrinterStatus
Next