MCL Printer Monitor Component Examples

Example 1: Printer Monitoring as a service

Demonstrates

• Use of a .config file to store application settings

  The printers to be monitored, and what do do when the various events occur are all configurable from the .config file so that changes do not require the service to be recompiled

• Abstract classes

  The printer event listener base class can be extended in any way and listeners can be added to the service via the configuration file. Thus, for example, one listener might update a database when jobs are added whereas another might just write to a log file.

System Requirements

• The printer monitor component requires Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 - this type of spooler monitoring is not supported on Windows 98 or Me
• Requires the Microsoft .NET framework 1.1 or higher
• Pausing, resuming, deleting and altering the details of a print job can only be done by logged in users that have administrator access