Printing Via TCPIP

[PhilBayley]

I dont know if this is the write topic to be posting under but I need to write a c# app that does basically what the LPR command does. We run large laser printers and can LPR postscript data direct to the print queues and I have an application that needs to send it direct (as its security based and needs no intervention).

Does anyone have any ideas?

PB

 

[Nate Bross]

I know this is kind of a while after you posted, but, I dont know if what you are trying to do would work exactly like that, unless your printers are connected to your network via ethernet. You might want to write a sever app that listens via TCPIP and then takes that data and spits it out through LPR. Just a sugestion.

 

[PhilBayley]

Do you mean send it by calling the LPR command from the application or is there a way of writing an LPR function within the application.

PB

 

[Nate Bross]

I guess I would need to understand your settup better to understand exactly what you are trying to do. Are the laser printers attached to a PC and shared on your network? If so I was invisioning a program you wrote running on that PC that listens for incomming TCP connections and when it gets one it relays the message through the LPR command.