.net Printing with staple

Question

In my project i have to print a liste of images files (.png) with differents settings, and i ca do it without problem using the native .Net System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument classe :

• PrintDocument.DefaultPageSettings.Landscape allow me to change the orientation
• PrintDocument.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize allow me to change the papersize to use
• PrintDocument.DefaultPageSettings.Duplex allow me to change the duplexing mode

The only thing i am not able to do is to define the Stapling property ?? After spending a lot of time of searching, i am very dissapointed on how to do this :

• Is it possible to do it using the PrintDocument classe and its sub-classes ??
• Do i have to use a PrintTicket as described in MSDN article ?

But if the solution is to use the print ticket class, i 've two others questions :

1. How do i attach the printing of an existing image file (using a printjob, a PrintDocument ???)
2. Are thoses classes only available for using XPS document ?

Important constraint : there is no GUI (because the program prints a lot of files in batch mode), so the user cannot change interactivly the staple option.

Answer 1

Finally, after spending few more hours of search, i've found the right answer to get and set specific printer settings.

Thanks to this Good Article, i did understand that in order to get/set all the settings of a printer, i have to deal with the DevMode structure of the printer.

Drawbacks :

• the DevMode structure is specific to a driver, and also to an operating system
• you have to maintain a list of DevMode address for each parameters you want to change

Benefits :

• you can access all the functions offered by a printer (even printing on tee-shirt, or saving mode....)
• the project in the link show a small interface to get/set/examine what parameter have been changed using the Pinter Dialog Settings window. So you yan easily by code change on the fly