How to Check if Printer Tray is blank C#

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i have printer with two trays,
by default i am printing on tray 1, i want to check if tray 1 is empty,then print on tray 2.

Please help...
thank you

Posted 15-Aug-13 7:10am

ziad sowan

Updated 15-Aug-13 7:12am

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ZurdoDev 15-Aug-13 13:14pm

You'll have to look at the driver details.

ridoy 15-Aug-13 14:43pm

Check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8943312/changing-printer-trays-during-print-job

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2013-08-15T08:02:00

This is normally done by the printer itself, not your code.

When you print something, the job is queued up in a spooler. If there are a bunch of jobs in the queue when your job prints, your job may have been started when there was paper in the tray and when your job finally prints, it may be empty. The opposite may also be true.

Also, what if the printer runs out of paper half way through your job?? Then what??

Basically, you're wasting your time trying to do this as you cannot determine the state of the printer when the job starts and you cannot change the job in the middle of it printing.