Problem calling paper.bin on printer

The printer I have to use have 4 paper bin and I have to use the second and fourth paper bin. VB is managing only upper, lower and middle paper bin. I was told that I have to use API and call the proper Function. I am not an expert and I would really like if somebody could help me on this one.

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The only bins windows will pick up are:

DMBIN_ONLYONE
DMBIN_LOWER
DMBIN_MIDDLE
DMBIN_MANUAL
DMBIN_ENVELOPE
DMBIN_ENVMANUAL
DMBIN_AUTO
DMBIN_TRACTOR
DMBIN_SMALLFMT
DMBIN_LARGEFMT
DMBIN_LARGECAPACITY
DMBIN_CASSETTE
DMBIN_FORMSOURCE

you can tell which ones of these are available by doing the following:

1. Create a Standard EXE project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.


2. Add a CommandButton and TextBox to the form.


3. Set Text1's ScrollBar property to "2 - Vertical" and the MultiLine property to "True."


4. Place the following code into Form1's code window:



Private Declare Function DeviceCapabilities Lib "winspool.drv" _
Alias "DeviceCapabilitiesA" (ByVal lpDeviceName As String, _
ByVal lpPort As String, ByVal iIndex As Long, lpOutput As Any, _
ByVal dev As Long) As Long

Private Const DC_BINS = 6
Private Const DC_BINNAMES = 12

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim prn As Printer
Dim dwbins As Long
Dim ct As Long
Dim nameslist As String
Dim nextString As String
Dim numBin() As Integer

Text1.Font.Name = "Courier New"
Text1.Font.Size = 12
Text1.Text = ""
For Each prn In Printers
dwbins = DeviceCapabilities(prn.DeviceName, prn.Port, _
DC_BINS, ByVal vbNullString, 0)
ReDim numBin(1 To dwbins)
nameslist = String(24 * dwbins, 0)
dwbins = DeviceCapabilities(prn.DeviceName, prn.Port, _
DC_BINS, numBin(1), 0)
dwbins = DeviceCapabilities(prn.DeviceName, prn.Port, _
DC_BINNAMES, ByVal nameslist, 0)
If Text1.Text <> "" Then
Text1.Text = Text1.Text & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
End If
Text1.Text = Text1.Text & prn.DeviceName
For ct = 1 To dwbins
nextString = Mid(nameslist, 24 * (ct - 1) + 1, 24)
nextString = Left(nextString, InStr(1, nextString, _
Chr(0)) - 1)
nextString = String(6 - Len(CStr(numBin(ct))), " ") & _
numBin(ct) & " " & nextString
Text1.Text = Text1.Text & vbCrLf & nextString
Next ct
Next prn
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
' Size and position the Form and controls
Me.Height = 7000
Me.Width = 7000
Text1.Top = 100
Text1.Left = 100
Text1.Height = 6450
Text1.Width = 5000
Text1.Text = "" ' Clear the TextBox
Command1.Left = 5300
Command1.Top = 1000
Command1.Width = 1500
Command1.Caption = "List Bins"
End Sub




5. Run the project and click on the CommandButton labeled "List Bins." The TextBox is filled with a list of all installed printers and the PaperBin settings each one supports.


Hope this is of some assistance

Grant French
E-Mail: [email protected]
ICQ: 33122184