Print Manager is an application to manage print queues and print jobs in Windows. These are its major functions:
- Reports added and changed print jobs in real time.
- Copies and redirects a print job to one or more print queues.
- Pauses, resumes, and purges print queues.
- Reports printer properties.
- Reports print driver properties.
- Windows 10+, 64-bit, x64.
> PrintManager.exe
To report added and changed jobs in real time, do the following:
- Select a printer to monitor from the "Printer to monitor" combobox.
- Click Start.
- Use another application to print a document to the selected printer.
For each job in the selected print queue, these properties are reported:
- Job Id: Unique identifier of a job in a print server.
- User: The username of the user who submitted the print job.
- From: The port and machine from which the print job was submitted.
- Document: The title of the document printed.
- Submitted @: The time when the job was submitted.
- Pages printed: The number of pages printed out of the number of pages in the document.
- Bytes printed: The number of bytes printed out of the number of bytes in the spool file.
- Status: The status of the print job.
Capture of print jobs in real time is accomplished with Windows API functions FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification and FindNextPrinterChangeNotification.
To duplicate and redirect a print job, do the following:
- Select a printer whose jobs should be redirected from the "Printer to redirect" combobox.
- Select one or more printers to receive the duplicate print job from the listbox below.
- Click "Redirect Printer".
If a user submits a print job to the printer to redirect, that printer will print the job. Print Manager then copies the spool file from C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS to the location specified in the "Intermediate Directory" text box. The Ghostscript driver mswinpr2 converts the spool file (.SPL) to a bitmap and draws the bitmap to a device context. For each target printer, a new print job is created. During that print job, the bitmap is blitted from the device context to a device context specific to the printer.
To control the printer status, select one or more printers from the printers list control. Click one of "Pause Printers", "Resume Printers", and "Purge Printers".
- Pause Printers: Pausing a printer allows the print queue to receive spooled documents but prevents it from sending the document to the printer.
- Resume Printers: Resuming a printer allows the print queue to send documents to a printer.
- Purge Printers: Purging a print queue removes all documents from it, including printed documents.
Controlling the printer status is accomplished with Windows API SetPrinterStatus.
To view printer drivers, do the following:
- Click on the "Drivers" tab.
Print Manager cretes two logs in %USERPROFILE%: print_manager_objects.txt and print_manager_system.txt.
The print_manager_objects.txt log reports information about print jobs.
JobId 3
PrinterName Bullzip PDF Printer
MachineName \\MYPC01
PortName
UserName MyUser
NotifyName MyUser
Datatype RAW
PrintProcessor winprint
Parameters
DriverName Bullzip PDF Printer
Devmode DEVMODE PLACEHOLDER
Status 128
StatusAsText Job has printed.
StatusString
SecurityDescriptor UNSUPPORTED
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The print_manager_system.txt log reports Print Manager object and thread events.
START
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CPrintManagerApp::StartLogs Thread ID: 781072
CPrintManagerApp::CPrintManagerApp Thread ID: 781072
CPrintManagerApp::InitInstance Thread ID: 781072
PrintSubscriber::PrintSubscriber Thread ID: 781072
PrintConverter::PrintConverter Thread ID: 781072
CTAB1::CTAB1 Thread ID: 781072
PrintSubscriber::PrintSubscriber Thread ID: 781072
CPrintManagerDlg::CPrintManagerDlg Thread ID: 781072
CPrintManagerDlg::OnInitDialog: Thread ID: 781072
CPrintManagerDlg::OnInitDialog Thread ID: 781072
CTAB1::OnInitDialog Thread ID: 781072
CPrintManagerDlg, UINT ThreadFunc(LPVOID pParam): Thread ID: 790420
PrintSubscriber::Start Thread ID: 790420
CPrintManagerDlg::~CPrintManagerDlg Thread ID: 781072
PrintSubscriber::~PrintSubscriber Thread ID: 781072
CTAB1::~CTAB1 Thread ID: 781072
PrintSubscriber::~PrintSubscriber Thread ID: 781072
PrintConverter::~PrintConverter Thread ID: 781072
CPrintManagerApp::~CPrintManagerApp Thread ID: 781072
CPrintManagerApp::CloseLogs Thread ID: 781072
Crow, D. (2010, April 20). Ask for, and receive, change notifications from a printer. CodeProject. https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/74359/Ask-for-and-receive-change-notifications-from-a-pr
The article discusses how to retrieve print job status in Windows using FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification. The article includes a Visual C++ 6.0 project. A portion of the print monitoring and MFC user interface code was adapted into this project. The article and code were published under the Code Project Open License (CPOL) 1.02.
Artifex Software, Inc. (2023, November 1). Ghostscript release 10.02.1. Ghostscript. https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/gpdldnld.html. Alternatively, https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases.
This repository includes object code built from the GhostPDL source. I provide a complete copy of the source code at https://github.com/jtquisenberry/ghostpdl. The code was published under the AGPL 3.0 license.