Question

Is there a way to switch printer trays during a print job? I’ve been asked to put together a pick/pack slip program. They want the inventory pick slip to be printed on a sheet of colored paper, the pack slips to be on white paper, and they want it properly collated (pick, pack, pack, pack, pack; pick, pack, pack, pack, pack; …).

I found some other threads on setting default trays, but didn’t find anything on alternating trays during the job. Maybe I’m not searching on the right thing.

Don’t know if it makes a difference, but our printer is an HP 3015n and the clients will be both XP and Win 7 Pro.

Answer 1

You can try something like this you have to reference System.Drawing.dll from the projects –> Reference–> Add

//Namespace:  System.Drawing.Printing
//Assembly:  System.Drawing (in System.Drawing.dll)

PrintDocument printDoc = new PrintDocument();
PaperSize oPS = new PaperSize();
oPS.RawKind = (int)PaperKind.A4;
PaperSource oPSource = new PaperSource();
oPSource.RawKind = (int) PaperSourceKind.Upper;

printDoc.PrinterSettings = new PrinterSettings();
printDoc.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = sPrinterName;
printDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize = oPS;
printDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSource = oPSource;
printDoc.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(printDoc_PrintPage);
printDoc.Print();
printDoc.Dispose();