Monitoring print job

[Tomka]

Hello.

I can monitor print jobs as long as the windows spooler is responsible
for them. But if all data is sent to the printer the job is out of the
spoolers scope.
If the printer has a paper jam at this time, i get no information
about this. Is there a driver independant solution to request the
status of the print job directly from the printer?

Tomka.