Detect Default Printer in 9iDS ??

Hi,
I will detect the default Printer from the Client
The Get_default_printer Function is not included in WEBUTIL
Exists an other possibility to detect the default Printer ?
Thanks Alfred

Default printer is an attribute of the Window. Unfortunately the version of Java supported by WebUtil (JDK 1,3) does not offer a method through which to get the window handle, so it is not possible to get the default printer by that route.
However, you can get the Default Printer by reading the registry using
Client_Win_API_Environment.read_registry('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\WINDOWS','Device',false);
END; Cheers, APC

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Everytime I print in Libreoffice it complains about me not having set the default printer. Where do I do that in Libreoffice or is it refferring to my setup in cups? Also in systemsettings under KDE4 when I try to manage my printer and I try to set it as default I get the following error:
Der opstod en fejl under CUPS-handlingen: "client-error-forbidden".
EDIT: Fixed by setting default under cups administration.
Last edited by fettouhi (2013-12-08 14:48:04)

mahen wrote:
bkadoctaj : this is actually exactly what I did as well. It works, although there is still a strange behaviour compared to under Ubuntu for instance :
- The printer wasn't detected, I had to add it from the CUPS web interface
- Libo complains about "no default printer" although I definitely set it as default in the aforementioned interface
(I use cups-usblp and splix-svn due to my specific hardware)
Hmm, weird... as far as I can tell LibO is using my CUPS-defined default printer as its default. Thanks for the feedback - you made me glad that I wasn't posting something irrelevant lol.
Possibly a stupid question but your user is a member of the lp group, right? I don't have anything set for "Allowed Users" in CUPS but you could also try adding your user there. Curious to hear of a solution if you find one.

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I have a Samsung SCX-4300 printer in my office connected to my MacBook running Snow Leopard (clean install, and upgraded to 10.6.1 right after setting up the system). When I tried to add the printer in System Preferences, the printer does not show up at all, even though the printer is on and connected, and clearly shows up under the USB tab in System Profile. I have tried resetting the printing system in System Preferences, fixing disk permissions both from within the system and from the installation DVD (incidentally, the permissions never seem to get fixed - even when the log says that they are fixed, when I run verification immediately after, the permissions are still broken), and zapping pram, but nothing works. Furthermore, I also have an HP F4280 all-in-one back at home, and the same MacBook only detects the printing function, but not the scanning function (no scan tab in printer preferences). Both the Samsung SCX-4300 and HP F4280 have drivers either supplied with Snow Leopard, or downloadable from Software Update.
Message was edited by: piatigorsky

piatigorsky,
I can help with the HP, but not the Samsung since I don't know anything about it. There is a known issue with the Print queue potentially showing the Print and not the Scan tabs for devices with In-OS drivers. The work around seems to be to delete and re-add the print queue, this should cause the right association with the scanner to occur.
Given the clean install nature of Snow Leopard (as apposed to the default upgrade install) I am surprised by the problems you are having.
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1) A full installer for the HP device is available from [here|http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=al- 74802-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=219&product=3390949]. This will give you an HP Scan application. It may help to track down the Scan problems with the In-OS drivers. It does not however contain the In-OS drivers.
2) A good document from HP on configuring your printer can be found [here|http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01846935&lc=en&dlc=e n&cc=us&lang=en&os=219&product=3390949].
3) A great document on setting up the device for using the In-OS Print and Scan drivers from Apple can be found [here|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3771].
4) Finally a generic document on Print and Scan drivers from Apple can be found [here|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669]. And it states that your Samsung drivers should be In-OS as well.
Note one other thing you may want to try, if you've Reset your printing system, and your computer (restart) is to actually restart the device. This may help get the Samsung recognized.
Just trying to help.
Andrew

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Default Printer Properties

Hello,
Is it possible to run a powershell command to identify the default printer on a system and then launch the "Printer Properties" to then modify the settings if need be?
I know the command to identify the default printer is similar to below but am unsure about how to launch the properties after identifying that.
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Nevermind,
I answered it on my own. For those wondering this is what worked.
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I am using LabVIEW 7 on windows NT4 computers.
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Windows]
NT/XP:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows]
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If you offer a PDF to the end user, they usually know what to do with it. OTOH, if you wish to provide software to facilitate the local printing, you might launch an application on the client side that accesses the JNLP API's PrintService - that can be done in a sandboxed application.
A signed application might access the normal J2SE based print services. Though I heard that Sun had decided to make printing a 'prompt on first attempt' deal - even for sandboxed apps., from 1.5 plus (or was it 1.6 plus?).
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I have SAP B1 and on the client the default printer is "AMM_4014DN_PCL6_domain-srv FRONTE-RETRO"
Then i have another printer "AMM_4014DN_PS_domain-srv".
Before the default printer were the "AMM_4014DN_PS_domain-srv".
Now the default printer is "AMM_4014DN_PCL6_domain-srv FRONTE-RETRO".
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Hi Brandon,
You can use the Print Presets in Acrobat for that purpose. Please follow the steps below:
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Because the reports run on the server and not on the client machine, there really is no way to print to the client's default printer because the server has no way of knowing what this printer is.
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