PrintDocument.PrinterSettings Property

Gets or sets the printer that prints the document.

Namespace: System.Drawing.Printing
Assembly: System.Drawing (in system.drawing.dll)

'Declaration
Public Property PrinterSettings As PrinterSettings
'Usage
Dim instance As PrintDocument
Dim value As PrinterSettings

value = instance.PrinterSettings

instance.PrinterSettings = value
/** @property */
public PrinterSettings get_PrinterSettings ()

/** @property */
public void set_PrinterSettings (PrinterSettings value)

public function get PrinterSettings () : PrinterSettings

public function set PrinterSettings (value : PrinterSettings)

Not applicable.

Property Value

A PrinterSettings that specifies where and how the document is printed. The default is a PrinterSettings with its properties set to their default values.

You can specify several printer settings through the PrinterSettings property. For example, use the PrinterSettings.Copies property to specify the number of copies you want to print, the PrinterSettings.PrinterName property to specify the printer to use, and the PrinterSettings.PrintRange property to specify the range of pages you want to print.

The following code example prints a document on the specified printer. The example makes three assumptions: that a variable names filePath has been set to the path of the file to print; that a method named pd_PrintPage, which handles the PrintPage event, has been defined; and that 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 Sub Printing()
    Try
        streamToPrint = New StreamReader(filePath)
        Try
            printFont = New Font("Arial", 10)
            Dim pd As New PrintDocument()
            AddHandler pd.PrintPage, AddressOf pd_PrintPage
            ' Specify the printer to use.
            pd.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = printer
            pd.Print()
        Finally
               streamToPrint.Close()
        End Try
    Catch ex As Exception
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
    End Try
End Sub    
   

public void Printing()
{
    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);
            pd.Print();
        }
        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.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

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