Send Document to print with out prompt?

tcaldwe · 04-13-2005, 09:50 PM

Hi all

Im working on an intranet Kioske, and I want a document to print when the user clicks on a button, I have found lots on how to print pages, but not for this need. To give you a little background this is a ticket kioske, and when the ticket is clikced, i want to send a word document directly to a thermal printer, with out a confirmation box. any suggestions would be appreiciated.

Tom

hemebond · 04-13-2005, 09:55 PM

Create a Firefox extension.

tcaldwe · 04-13-2005, 10:06 PM

The browser of choice is IE 6. i dont even know where to start with firefox.. my daddy said stick to what you know and that seems like good advice. I just need an html or java button that will print a word doc.. i didnt have any idea it would be so dificult to find the solution im also on a short time table, the prototype has to done by 4/22/05

hemebond · 04-13-2005, 10:19 PM

What do you think would happen if it was that easy to print without the users permission?

tcaldwe · 04-13-2005, 10:37 PM

we would have spam spewing forth from our printers, like it does in our inboxes and fax machines as it is.
how about this...would i have to emded the contents of the word doc to the page and have my button point to a link..

<html>
<head>
<title>about:blank</title>
<script language="javascript1.2">

</script>
<style>

</style>
</head>
<body onload="print()">

</body>
</html>

hemebond · 04-13-2005, 10:50 PM

I don't know. You'll have to wait for someone who knows Internet Explorer.

codegoboom · 04-13-2005, 11:10 PM

I guess there's a chance it could work. Be sure to surround the offensive code with error catching statements, due to the likelihood of failure...

tcaldwe · 04-13-2005, 11:52 PM

i cant embed the word doc... the text on the word doc is vertical.. so i cant convert it to html... and when i use

<EMBED src="coupon1.doc"width=321 height=576>

it does not display in the browser...

i tried to change it to pdf, but the emdeded pdf shows all the menu bars when it prints the page

glenngv · 04-14-2005, 05:50 AM

You can use CSS to specify an alternate document to print out. See this. But take note that Print dialog will still be invoked.

tcaldwe · 04-14-2005, 06:10 PM

in all the forums ived checked, there is so much worry about printing with out prompting, and no one wants to help. but i dont want to print a page or a frame or another page, i want to send a document directly to the local thermal printer on click of one button. at this point i dont care if the promt comes up becasue i think have found the registy keys to turn off the printer confirmation box, i just need to get it to the printer. If i hadd thought this part of this project was going to be so difficult i would not have left it to the end.

tcaldwe · 04-14-2005, 07:54 PM

I found a command that will open acrobat reader and print with out asking for a prompt. how would i call this command from HTML? the commant is

c:\program files\adobe\acrobat 4.0\reader\acrord32.exe /t example.pdf hpprinter

i know that there is a way to call executables from IE i just cant find the exact string. right now IE trys to run the exe in the browser.

glenngv · 04-15-2005, 02:53 AM

Have you read the link I posted above? That technique allows you to print a document (e.g. Word) without opening it.