How Do We Get Feedback From The Printer??

Hi,
we ran into quite a serious problem the other day whilst batch printing a large number of reports from Access 2000.

For some unknown reason the print job got interrupted part way through, resulting in a large number of reports not printing at all.

Our database uses an sql fragment to set the field 'isPrinted' to true upon sending reports to the printer. This is primarily to prevent records being printed more than once.

However, if, as above, the print job doesn't successfully complete the db still, as expected, marks the record as such. This provides us with a somewhat flase account of the status of the print job.

My question is this, is there a way in vb that Access can verify the success/failure of a print job?? Are there modules or code examples available that might help us interrogate the printer and perhaps abort on error?

* Standard Disclaimer:

VB Noob! Gentle brow-slapping only please!