The code looks good, though I can't test it right now. There are two possibilities. The user account you're running the code under does have sufficient permissions to get the print queue status, which is unlikely. And, the printer driver is under no obligation to update the status with the print server. So, it's entirely possible that the status really is None, even though it's doing something. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

may it can help you out http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/rzalu/rzaluroutingexamples.htm

Different development paradigm - all my objects are late bound. So during development the form objects are placed and named using a standard convention. A class is created to supply the CRUD and any other processing for each table. At runtime the class gets the table via the DAL and a utility binds the 1 row to the form elements or dumps the table into a datagridview. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH