PageMediaType Enumeration
Specifies types of printing paper or other media.
Assembly: ReachFramework (in ReachFramework.dll)
| Member name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Archival | Archive-quality media. | |
| AutoSelect | The print device selects the media. | |
| BackPrintFilm | Specialty back-printing film. | |
| Bond | Standard bond media. | |
| CardStock | Standard card stock. | |
| Continuous | Continuous-feed media. | |
| EnvelopePlain | Standard envelope. | |
| EnvelopeWindow | Window envelope. | |
| Fabric | Fabric media. | |
| HighResolution | Specialty high-resolution media. | |
| Label | Label media. | |
| MultiLayerForm | Attached multipart forms. | |
| MultiPartForm | Individual multipart forms. | |
| None | Unknown or unlisted media. | |
| Photographic | Standard photographic media. | |
| PhotographicFilm | Film photographic media. | |
| PhotographicGlossy | Glossy photographic media. | |
| PhotographicHighGloss | High-gloss photographic media. | |
| PhotographicMatte | Matte photographic media. | |
| PhotographicSatin | Satin photographic media. | |
| PhotographicSemiGloss | Semi-gloss photographic media. | |
| Plain | Plain paper. | |
| Screen | Output to a display in continuous form. | |
| ScreenPaged | Output to a display in paged form. | |
| Stationery | Specialty stationary. | |
| TabStockFull | Tab stock, not precut (single tabs). | |
| TabStockPreCut | Tab stock, precut (multiple tabs). | |
| Transparency | Transparent sheet. | |
| TShirtTransfer | Media that is used to transfer an image to a T-shirt. | |
| Unknown | The feature (whose options are represented by this enumeration) is set to an option not defined in the Print Schema. |
The values of this type are used primarily for these purposes:
As members of the PageMediaTypeCapability collection, a property of PrintCapabilities, they indicate the types of media that the printer supports.
As the value of the PageMediaType property of a PrintTicket, they instruct the printer to use a specific type of media.
The Unknownvalue is never used in properties of PrintCapabilities objects.
You should never set a PrintTicket property to Unknown. If some other PrintTicket producing application has created a PrintTicket document that sets the page media type feature to an unrecognized option (that is, an option that is not defined in the Print Schema), then a PrintTicket object in your application that is constructed with that document will have PageMediaType.Unknown as the value of the PageMediaType property.
Although the PrintTicket and PrintCapabilities classes cannot be inherited, you can extend the Print Schema to recognize print device features that are not accounted for in the PrintTicket or PrintCapabilities classes. For more information, see NOTINBUILD: How to: Extend the Print Schema and Create New Print System Classes.
The following example shows how to determine the printer capabilities and configure the print job to take advantage of them.
' ---------------------- GetPrintTicketFromPrinter ----------------------- ''' <summary> ''' Returns a PrintTicket based on the current default printer.</summary> ''' <returns> ''' A PrintTicket for the current local default printer.</returns> Private Function GetPrintTicketFromPrinter() As PrintTicket Dim printQueue As PrintQueue = Nothing Dim localPrintServer As New LocalPrintServer() ' Retrieving collection of local printer on user machine Dim localPrinterCollection As PrintQueueCollection = localPrintServer.GetPrintQueues() Dim localPrinterEnumerator As System.Collections.IEnumerator = localPrinterCollection.GetEnumerator() If localPrinterEnumerator.MoveNext() Then ' Get PrintQueue from first available printer printQueue = CType(localPrinterEnumerator.Current, PrintQueue) Else ' No printer exist, return null PrintTicket Return Nothing End If ' Get default PrintTicket from printer Dim printTicket As PrintTicket = printQueue.DefaultPrintTicket Dim printCapabilites As PrintCapabilities = printQueue.GetPrintCapabilities() ' Modify PrintTicket If printCapabilites.CollationCapability.Contains(Collation.Collated) Then printTicket.Collation = Collation.Collated End If If printCapabilites.DuplexingCapability.Contains(Duplexing.TwoSidedLongEdge) Then printTicket.Duplexing = Duplexing.TwoSidedLongEdge End If If printCapabilites.StaplingCapability.Contains(Stapling.StapleDualLeft) Then printTicket.Stapling = Stapling.StapleDualLeft End If Return printTicket End Function ' end:GetPrintTicketFromPrinter()
Available since 3.0