Maybe you're thinking about this replacement too literally. When a certain condition happens, which the server knows about, you want to send something to a printer that's associated with the user.
This print job doesn't need to be initiated by the user's browser, even though the current app works that way. The node server could connect straight to the printer (or a print service) and send it the report. Node is good at connecting to things. (Of course you could have the printer details saved as a user preference). -----Original Message----- From: Kwaku Nuamah <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:59:11 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nodejs] Printing straight to default printer without showing print dialogue in CakePHP application Well the truth is it's page that will print a report of sorts if certain conditions are met. I'm looking to rewrite a vb.net application with php. As I'm sure you know desktop applications can do this. Hence my search for a solution in a server-client web application. Kwaku On 10 February 2012 14:54, Karl Tiedt <[email protected]> wrote: > Call me crazy, but how are you expecting to access the printer from your > server without the client having to approve anything? > > Something on their side will have to talk to the printer and it isn't > you're node application... > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
