RE: How to print directly from coldfusion code

2007-07-09 Thread Ben Forta
Use ColdFusion 8 (public beta) and --- Ben -Original Message- From: Alan Rother [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 4:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How to print directly from coldfusion code This isn't the "BEST" solution... But I used it once.

Re: How to print directly from coldfusion code

2007-07-09 Thread ch g
Thank you. > My personal approach would be to use the print.exe executable found on > windows machines via the cfexecute tag. > > Print.exe syntax: PRINT [/D:device] [[drive:][path]filename[...]] > > So something like this should work: > > > > arguments="/D:\\networkPrinter c:\printDir

Re: How to print directly from coldfusion code

2007-07-09 Thread Jake Pilgrim
My personal approach would be to use the print.exe executable found on windows machines via the cfexecute tag. Print.exe syntax: PRINT [/D:device] [[drive:][path]filename[...]] So something like this should work: Jake Pilgrim ~~

Re: How to print directly from coldfusion code

2007-07-09 Thread ch g
Printer is located in the same server domain and printer has all capabilities. Thank you for your quick response. >First question, "print where?" > >On what printer are you expecting the output to appear? Of course the >CF application server is only going to be able to access printers >availab

Re: How to print directly from coldfusion code

2007-07-09 Thread Ian Skinner
First question, "print where?" On what printer are you expecting the output to appear? Of course the CF application server is only going to be able to access printers available to the server it is installed on or the domain user it is running under. The next question, "What are the capabiliti

Re: How to print directly from coldfusion code

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Rother
This isn't the "BEST" solution... But I used it once. Do you have an eFax acct and access to a FAX machine? If you do you can efax the result to your fax machine and in effect, print your reports. It's not a highly cost effective strategy, but it does work. On 7/9/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PRO

RE: How to print directly from coldfusion code

2007-07-09 Thread Andy Matthews
I suppose you'd probably have to execute some sort of script or executable living on the server, which sends a packet of info to the printer. -Original Message- From: chr chr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 3:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: How to print directly from col

Re: How to print directly from coldfusion code

2007-07-09 Thread J.J. Merrick
in CF8 you now have ... Don't know if there is anyway to do that in MX7 other then doing some sort of Java call. J.J. On 7/9/07, chr chr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any ideas, how to print directly from coldfusion code... > > I created one scheduler that runs every night, it collects data