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Hi Greg,<br>
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On 1:59 PM, Roberts, Gregory (Contractor) wrote:
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We have decided to oset the default printer in a macro which we must run
on the excel report and hope that all will work on Monday when in
production.
I would like to find a python solution which I could refactor into the
correct place. Again, my wits with Python still have not formed.
Also... I am unable to dedicate to much time to this task for the time
being.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will try and think outside the box using
them as guidance.
Greg
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I'm not sure why the other PyWin32 guys didn't mention this, but you
can do either of the following:<br>
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<pre class="python"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 119, 0); font-weight: bold;">import</span> win32print
win32print.<span style="color: black;">SetDefaultPrinter</span><span
style="color: black;">(</span><span style="color: rgb(72, 61, 139);">'My Printer Name'</span><span
style="color: black;">)
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 119, 0); font-weight: bold;">import</span> <span
style="color: rgb(220, 20, 60);">subprocess</span>
<span style="color: rgb(220, 20, 60);">subprocess</span>.<span
style="color: black;">call</span><span style="color: black;">(</span>r<span
style="color: rgb(72, 61, 139);">'rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /y /n <span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">\\</span>UNC<span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">\p</span>ath<span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">\t</span>o<span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">\p</span>rinter'</span><span
style="color: black;">)</span>
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I have a couple of other tips here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/02/14/python-windows-and-printers/">http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/02/14/python-windows-and-printers/</a>
and Tim Golden's site has at least one other script based on printers:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/cookbook.html#show-print-jobs">http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/cookbook.html#show-print-jobs</a>
(although it has nothing to do with what you're doing).<br>
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The other guys had good suggestions too though.<br>
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<strong>Mike Driscoll</strong>
<p>Blog: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.pythonlibrary.org">http://blog.pythonlibrary.org</a>
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