I have used the Management class for the first time now and I find it very interesting.

First you have to add a reference System.Managemnt to the project.

  1. using System.Management;
  2. ManagementScope mgmtscope=new ManagementScope(@"\root\cimv2");
  3. mgmtscope.Connect();
  4. ManagementObjectSearcher objsearcher=new ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from Win32_Printer");
  5. foreach(ManagementObject printer in objsearcher.Get())
  6. {
  7. if(printer["WorkOffline"].ToString().Equals("true"))
  8. {
  9. printername=printer["Name"].ToString();
  10. MessageBox.Show(printername+"-Offline");
  11. }
  12. }

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