Printer Object

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Publisher Developer Reference

A Printer object represents a printer installed on your computer.

Version Information
 Version Added:  Publisher 2007

Remarks

Many of the properties, such as PaperSize, PaperSource, and PaperOrientation, of the Printer object correspond to the settings in the Print Setup dialog box (File menu) in the Microsoft Office Publisher user interface .

The collection of all the printers installed on your computer is represented by the InstalledPrinters collection.

Example

The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro shows how you can use the PrinterName and IsActivePrinter properties of the Printer object to get a list of all the installed printers on the computer, determine which of them is currently the active printer, and get some of the settings of the active printer. The macro displays the results in the Immediate window.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Public Sub Printer_Example()

Dim pubInstalledPrinters As Publisher.InstalledPrinters
Dim pubApplication As Publisher.Application
Dim pubPrinter As Publisher.Printer
    
Set pubApplication = ThisDocument.Application
Set pubInstalledPrinters = pubApplication.InstalledPrinters

For Each pubPrinter In pubInstalledPrinters
    Debug.Print pubPrinter.PrinterName
    If pubPrinter.IsActivePrinter Then
        Debug.Print "This is the active printer"
        Debug.Print "Paper size is ", pubPrinter.PaperSize
        Debug.Print "Paper orientation is ", pubPrinter.PaperOrientation
        Debug.Print "Paper source is ", pubPrinter.PaperSource
    End If
Next



End Sub

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