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Anthony Miller
Asked: 2011-06-09 12:05:14 +0800 CST

Batch Script - Query Filenames From Server Printer

  • 772
  • Client: Windows XP
  • Print Server: Ubuntu via CUPS

Is there a way to query the printer queue on the server from a client to retrieve the name of the file being printed?

Code example would be something like:

FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`COMMAND TO QUERY PRINT JOBS ^| FIND "FILENAME"`) DO (
SET var=%%F
)
IF NOT DEFINED var (
ECHO Print Job Does Not Exist
) ELSE (
ECHO Print Job Completed
)
ubuntu windows-xp batch-file printer queue

1 Answers

  1. I totally forgot to update this =D.

    My solution ended up being querying the local print queue on the workstation.

    CSCRIPT "C:\WINDOWS\system32\PRNJOBS.vbs" -l ^| FIND /I "printed file"

    Running that queries the local print jobs with their file names, then I search for the file in the output to see if it successfully made it to the print queue. This is the closest that I could come to my solution and it has been working thusfar.

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