Hi,
I wanna know how can I access a printer driver and print a test page with the VB form. please help.I wanna print a test page with click of a button in the VB form.

regards
Rohith

I’m curious why you want to do this? Could you expound on that a bit?

Dear Brian,
We use thermal printers for printing barcodes. I have made the sofyware for printing barcodes. But when I need to load the printer configuration I need to print a test page. I cannot ask my client to go an open the printer driver and do the settings. So I need to adda command button to print the test page and load settings.
Hope this is clear

Regards
Rohith

Well, it's clear, but it seems like a lot of "hand-holding." If your user cannot set up the printer driver and print a test page they might also be unable to run your software. (I'm only thinking out loud; but when you buy Word, or AutoCAD, or whatever, the vendor expects you to set up your own printer. They give tips in help, but you must do this yourself. As I ponder this, it seems this is far and away the more common way things are done.)

Are you sure you can't ask the user to print a test page?

Of course, you could add a test output, and allow them to print that output using the same code that will eventually print the real data. If the test comes out in the wrong place, then the users can call you, or change their computer's configuration. Would that cover the needs?

Dear Brian,
The problem is that the printer supplied by us has a issue that it dont save the configuration.We have a neck to neck competition with our competitor they would replace machine if we delay or give asolution that is unsatisfactory for the client when compared to our competitor. I tring my posibleways tosave the configuration.If i dont succeed I have to give them the test page option which is very simple to the user. As user level they dont like to access the printer driver and make any changes. This shouldbe done eveery time this printer isswiched on. Printing the test page evry time will show our printer and software a low profile.

Regards
Rohith

You want the SHInvokePrinterCommand API function with PRINTACTION_TESTPAGE


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Dear Hart,

I couldnt find the API in the specfied website.


Regards
Rohith