# Printer status

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/printer-status/7383>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 8, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/printer-status/7383 "2013-10-08T02:49:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lcs226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lcs226](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lcs226)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/printer-status/7383/1 "2013-10-08T02:49:22Z")

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I have done a search for this topic and found nothing. Is there a way to check a printer status (available/ready/online) before sending a print job to the printer?

TKS

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**Author:** ![adamaustin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@adamaustin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adamaustin)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/printer-status/7383/2 "2013-10-08T16:36:09Z")

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It looks like you’re going to need some native driver library to connect to the printer. Here’s an example for the Windows win32print:

[https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2009-April/009005.html](https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2009-April/009005.html)

Also check this [stackoverflow link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12041648/python-win32print-printer-status-confusion) for the printer codes.

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**Author:** ![lcs226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lcs226](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lcs226)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/printer-status/7383/3 "2013-10-10T02:45:48Z")

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Looks lioke it might work but I cannot get win32print to import to my app module.

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**Author:** ![adamaustin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@adamaustin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adamaustin)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/printer-status/7383/4 "2013-10-10T18:24:31Z")

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Yea, that’s because win32print is a Python 3rd party extension library and Python libraries aren’t easy to implement in Jython (that’s what Ignition uses).

I found this old forum posts which might work out well for ya: [http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=6759](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=6759)