printJob: redirect

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Redirect a print job to a different printer.

Redirecting a print job will only succeed if there is a printTask in a processing state on the associated print job, started by a trigger that the requesting app created.

For details about how to use this API to add pull printing support to Universal Print, see Extending Universal Print to support pull printing.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Not supported. Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application PrintJob.Manage.All Not available.

HTTP request

POST /print/printers/{id}/jobs/{id}/redirect

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

In the request body, supply the ID of the printer that the print job should be redirected to.

Property Type Description
destinationPrinterId String The ID of the printer the print job should be redirected to.
configuration microsoft.graph.printJobConfiguration Updated configuration of print job.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a printJob object queued for the destination printer.

Example

The following example shows how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/print/printers/d5ef6ec4-07ca-4212-baf9-d45be126bfbb/jobs/44353/redirect

{
  "destinationPrinterId": "9a3b3956-ce5b-4d06-a605-5b0bd3e9ddea",
  "configuration": {
    "feedOrientation": "longEdgeFirst",
    "pageRanges": [
      {
        "start": 1,
        "end": 1
      }
    ],
    "quality": "medium",
    "dpi": 600,
    "orientation": "landscape",
    "copies": 1,
    "duplexMode": "oneSided",
    "colorMode": "blackAndWhite",
    "inputBin": "by-pass-tray",
    "outputBin": "output-tray",
    "mediaSize": "A4",
    "margin": {
      "top": 0,
      "bottom": 0,
      "left": 0,
      "right": 0
    },
    "mediaType": "stationery",
    "finishings": null,
    "pagesPerSheet": 1,
    "multipageLayout": "clockwiseFromBottomLeft",
    "collate": false,
    "scaling": "shrinkToFit",
    "fitPdfToPage": false
  }
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#printJob",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.printJob",
  "id": "44354",
  "displayName": "testjob", 
  "createdDateTime": "2020-06-30T17:19:09Z",
  "createdBy": {
    "id": "",
    "displayName": "",
    "userPrincipalName": ""
  },
  "status": {
    "state": "processing",
    "description": "The print job is currently being processed by the printer.",
    "details": ["interpreting"]
  },
  "configuration": {
    "feedOrientation": "longEdgeFirst",
    "pageRanges": [
      {
        "start": 1,
        "end": 1
      }
    ],
    "quality": "medium",
    "dpi": 600,
    "orientation": "landscape",
    "copies": 1,
    "duplexMode": "oneSided",
    "colorMode": "blackAndWhite",
    "inputBin": "by-pass-tray",
    "outputBin": "output-tray",
    "mediaSize": "A4",
    "margin": {
      "top": 0,
      "bottom": 0,
      "left": 0,
      "right": 0
    },
    "mediaType": "stationery",
    "finishings": null,
    "pagesPerSheet": 1,
    "multipageLayout": "clockwiseFromBottomLeft",
    "collate": false,
    "scaling": "shrinkToFit",
    "fitPdfToPage": false
  }
}