Print with a printer that is not the one configured by default

Question

Hi.

I'm migrating from winForm to WPF and I have the following code which works very well:

printDialog = new PrintDialog();
if (DialogResult.OK == printDialog.ShowDialog())
{
    try
                {
                    PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument();
                    pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(PrintImage);
                    pd.PrinterSettings = printDialog.PrinterSettings;
                    pd.Print();
                }
catch
                {
                }
}

Now in wpf it is indicated that there is an error in the line:

pd.PrinterSettings = printDialog.PrinterSettings;

So to test if the rest of the code works I commented it and it works very well, but obviously it always prints on the printer that the PC has configured by default.

I tried to investigate in other threads how to solve this problem and the solution is supposedly the following:

  PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument();
                    PrinterSettings ps = new PrinterSettings();
                    pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(PrintImage);
                    printDialog.PrintQueue = new PrintQueue(new PrintServer(),"The exact name of my printer");

                    pd.Print();

My question is: How can I get the name of the printer? Before winForms I didn't need to do that, I imagine that printDialog took care of that at the moment that the user chose the printer.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

I already got it, in wpf it is like this:

PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument();
PrinterSettings ps = new PrinterSettings();
pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(PrintImage);

pd.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = printDialog.PrintQueue.Name; 

pd.Print();

Answer 2

Hi,

Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

add namespace

using PrintDialog = System.Windows.Forms.PrintDialog;

then use your code

  PrintDialog printDialog = new PrintDialog();
            if (System.Windows.Forms. DialogResult.OK == printDialog.ShowDialog())
            {
                try
                {
                    PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument();
                    pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(PrintImage);
                    pd.PrinterSettings = printDialog.PrinterSettings;
                    pd.Print();
                }
                catch
                {
                }
            }

Thanks.