OpenPrinterW(3w)

OpenPrinterW3w

Usage

BOOL OpenPrinterW
(
LPWSTR lpPrinterName,
HANDLE* phPrinter,
LPPRINTER_DEFAULTSW pDefault
)

Overview

Open a Printer / Printserver or a Printer-Object.

Params

lpPrinterName [In] Name of Printserver, Printer, or Printer-Object.

phPrinter [Out] The resulting Handle is stored here.

pDefault [In] PTR to Default Printer Settings or NULL.

Returns

Success: TRUE

Failure: FALSE.

Notes

lpPrinterName is one of:

Printserver (NT only): "Servername" or NULL for the local Printserver

Printer: "PrinterName"

Printer-Object: "PrinterName,Job xxx"

XcvMonitor: "Servername,XcvMonitor MonitorName"

XcvPort: "Servername,XcvPort PortName".

Implementation

Declared in "winspool.h".

Implemented in "dlls/winspool.drv/info.c".

Debug channel "winspool".

Releases

4 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7

Bugs

Printer-Object not supported

pDefaults is ignored

From libwine-dev 1.4.1-4 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.