Waiting for Printer Status

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Posted on 21 Feb 2025 03:22:15 by PowerAutomateTestin...

Hello I am trying to find a way to Wait for Printer Status to be completed before continuing to next action although I cannot find a clean way to do this without just adding a 15 sec wait inbetween actions.

I found a setting in my printer properties to display the status although the UI selector is not able to detect the text in the UI element, alternatively I set the "Wait Until window:" to "Doesn't Contain UI Element" so after the status message disappears it will continue the flow although I don't like that because that takes to long.

there must be a better way to handle this task, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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WillSG 352 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 21 Feb 2025 at 06:05:21

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Hi @ PowerAutomateTestin.. I hope you are doing well.

This can be achieved using Power Shell because it provides a straight forward approach to connect with the windows printers.

Here is an image of how it looks:

And here is the snippet code, this one can be modified as needed.

LOOP WHILE (is_printing) <> ($'''NO''')
    Workstation.GetDefaultPrinter PrinterName=> PrinterName
    @@copilotGeneratedAction: 'False'
Scripting.RunPowershellScript.RunPowershellScript Script: $'''$printerName = \"%PrinterName%\"
$printer = Get-WmiObject -Query \"SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer WHERE Name = \'$printerName\'\"

if ($printer) {
    $status = $printer.PrinterStatus
    switch ($status) {
        3 { Write-Output \"Printer \'$printerName\' is idle.\" }
        4 { Write-Output \"Printer \'$printerName\' is printing.\" }
        5 { Write-Output \"Printer \'$printerName\' is stopped.\" }
        default { Write-Output \"Printer \'$printerName\' has an unknown status: $status.\" }
    }
} else {
    Write-Output \"Printer \'$printerName\' not found.\"
}''' ScriptOutput=> PowershellOutput ScriptError=> ScriptError
    IF NotContains(PowershellOutput, $'''printing''', True) THEN
        SET is_printing TO $'''NO'''
    END
END
Display.ShowMessageDialog.ShowMessage Title: $'''YOU ROCK!''' Message: $'''Printing Completed!''' Icon: Display.Icon.None Buttons: Display.Buttons.OK DefaultButton: Display.DefaultButton.Button1 IsTopMost: True ButtonPressed=> ButtonPressed

Hope this helps,

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Will SG
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trice602 13,768 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 21 Feb 2025 at 04:50:37

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Hi,

Or try wait for image to disappear.

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trice602 13,768 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 21 Feb 2025 at 04:48:41

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Hi,

Please consider trying if image, I think this will work better for you.

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