Automatically print

[jscotti]

Hello-

Is there a way to automatically print a pdf to a specified printer in the Workbench? I am not seeing a module to do this. Do you need anything special?

[Former Community Member]

If you have a license for Output there is a service called sendToPrinter which allows the selection of a printer protocol, the server URI and the printer name.

Steve

[jscotti]

I don't believe we have Output. Is there another way?

[Former Community Member]

It depends upon your requirements and considerations such as print volume and skill sets. Here are two ideas:

1) Use the Common convertPDFService toPS to convert a PDF to PS. Use a custom script (or better, a custom DSC) and the Java Print Service APIs (StreamPrintService or PrintService class) to print to a printer that supports PS.

2) Write the PDF documents to the file system and use Acrobat to print. This could be automated to batch print as well.

Steve

[rtillian]

I do exactly this with Perl

(you could translate it to VB or C++)

http://blogs.perl.org/users/rtillian/2011/10/batch-printing-on-command-line-via-print-driver.html

Regards

Rudolf