Intercepting printer errors

[SteveB]

I'm developing a kiosk solution using FM5 under Windows. Does anyone know how to handle things like: paper out or printer offline errors?

[Chuck]

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Originally posted by Steveinvegas:

I'm developing a kiosk solution using FM5 under Windows. Does anyone know how to handle things like: paper out or printer offline errors?

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I haven't done this, but I would try setting error capture to on in your printing script, and producing errors by disconnecting the printer and taking out the paper. Run the scripts and capture the error number after a Print script step to a global field and see what the number is. I don't know if this'll work though, since I don't know if FileMaker will capture system errors in addition to it's own.

If you are able to capture the error numbers, then you can decide what you want to do with them. Perhaps script something that emails or pages someone who can take care of the problem.

Chuck