check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmsde/html/msdedepl.asp

Am interested because am writting a printer monitoring program that will monitor the printerout from any printer.where am having problem is getting the actual number of pages printed and also to be able to know when a page is printed in a situation where there is more than one page of the document.

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