PrinterSettings Class
Assembly: System.Drawing (in system.drawing.dll)
Typically, you access a PrinterSettings through PrintDocument.PrinterSettings or PageSettings.PrinterSettings properties to modify printer settings. The most common printer setting is PrinterName, which specifies the printer to print to.
For more information about printing with Windows Forms, see the System.Drawing.Printing namespace overview. If you wish to print from a Windows Presentation Foundation application, see the System.Printing namespace.
The following code example prints a document on the specified printer. The example has three prerequisites:
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A variable named filePath has been set to the path of the file to print.
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A method named pd_PrintPage, which handles the PrintPage event, has been defined.
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A variable named printer has been set to the printer's name.
Use the System.Drawing, System.Drawing.Printing, and System.IO namespaces for this example.
public void Printing(string printer) { try { streamToPrint = new StreamReader (filePath); try { printFont = new Font("Arial", 10); PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument(); pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(pd_PrintPage); // Specify the printer to use. pd.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = printer; if (pd.PrinterSettings.IsValid) { pd.Print(); } else { MessageBox.Show("Printer is invalid."); } } finally { streamToPrint.Close(); } } catch(Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); } }
public void Printing(String printer)
{
try {
streamToPrint = new StreamReader(filePath);
try {
printFont = new Font("Arial", 10);
PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument();
pd.add_PrintPage(new PrintPageEventHandler(pd_PrintPage));
// Specify the printer to use.
pd.get_PrinterSettings().set_PrinterName(printer);
if (pd.get_PrinterSettings().get_IsValid()) {
pd.Print();
}
else {
MessageBox.Show("Printer is invalid.");
}
}
finally {
streamToPrint.Close();
}
}
catch (System.Exception ex) {
MessageBox.Show(ex.get_Message());
}
} //Printing
Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.