Deleting Printers through VBA

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Does anyone have any experience deleting printers via VBA? The user’s platform is Windows XP, and the application (Access mdb) is in Office 2003.

Thanks in advance for your ideas and suggestions.

Ken

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Are you sure that it’s a good idea to delete a printer using VBA?

See How to Add/Delete Printer Programatically using API? for the code needed.

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Are you sure that it’s a good idea to delete a printer using VBA?

See How to Add/Delete Printer Programatically using API? for the code needed.

You may recall a few months back I asked about TIFF printers.

Long story short, we acquired a PeerNet product “TIFF Image Printer”. It allowed programming in the path and file name, similar to Stephen Lebans pdf (similar being a relative term).

The code written to access the TIFF printer in code creates an instance of the TIFF printer and creates the TIFF files as expected. However, when done, it leaves the TIFF printer installed. So in one case, the user had over 300 printers, 294 of which were TIFF printers that had not been deleted.

So I figured if there was a way to delete printers with names starting with values 0-9 I could delete them after printing. I hope this makes sense.

Thanks for your help.
Ken

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Thanks for the explanation!

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