Meseems this is the same as PrintStatus() - Windows will always report that the printer is on-line (if the printing queue is enabled).
Hilmar.
>Hi,
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>Have you tried SYS(13)? It returns the status of the current printer.
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>HTH,
>Arriyel
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>>Any one who knows a function to detect if a printer is online of offline?
>>The printstatus() function of foxpro always returns online even if the printer is not connected or offline.
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>>I need a function to detect if the printer is offline because in one of my transaction module i want to require the user to make the printer online before proceeding to transaction.
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