Changing printer settings

[Gazzo]

Hi can anybody help please?

How can I change the printer settings i.e. change the printing preferences to print on both sides. I want to do this so when I go into the Printers and Faxes window I can see the changes that I have made.

I can successfully loop through my printers on my system and change the Duplex property to Duplex.Vertical but this change is not persisted.

Any idea?

Cheers,
Gazzo

 

[Merrion]

Printer settings are pretty much thread specific - in normal operation setting the number of settings in a MS Word session will not change the settings if I print out from Explorer.

To change the printer settings "globally" requires use of the API.

 

[Gazzo]

Yeah, thats what I need to do, have you any idea which API I can use to do this?

 

[Merrion]

I think if you use AdvanceDocumentProperties to change the DEVMODE that should take effect system-wide. I have done this to set the number of copies syustem wide in VB6...

 

[Gazzo]

Okay, well that's totally lost me now. I think I'll give up on this one.

Thanks for your help Merrion.