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HOw to send print job to printer directly from php page without preview
Hi all,
i am developing a bill application in php, mysql.
I have designed and developed bill.php form in which, on pressing print button, i want to print the bill to printer.
I have designed onw bill report in using fpdf. so the format of bill is .pdf.
Now each time i press on print button, bill.pdf file is getting previewed and then only i am able to take print out of it.
What i want to do is, i want to print that bill to printer without generating preview, or opening any sort of popup window. Again it should be fast enough.
How can i do that.
Any solution other than fpdf is there, then also it is welcomed.
i am developing a bill application in php, mysql.
I have designed and developed bill.php form in which, on pressing print button, i want to print the bill to printer.
I have designed onw bill report in using fpdf. so the format of bill is .pdf.
Now each time i press on print button, bill.pdf file is getting previewed and then only i am able to take print out of it.
What i want to do is, i want to print that bill to printer without generating preview, or opening any sort of popup window. Again it should be fast enough.
How can i do that.
Any solution other than fpdf is there, then also it is welcomed.
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You're on firm ground by using FPDF. There is also TCPDF, but I don't think the choice of PDF generation software matters.
The question seems to evince some confusion about the roles of the client and the server. These are terms of art in modern computer design. More information is available here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/A_11271-Understanding-Client-Server-Protocols-and-Web-Applications.html
The server can respond to a client request by sending a document, but it cannot initiate an action on the client machine. In other words, if your clients are using the internet to talk to your server, then the clients have to be the ones that tell the browser to print the document. However if you're using a networked printer on Windows, you may be in luck.
Please see http://www.php.net/manual/en/printer.installation.php
It's a windows-only extension that is intended to make a networked printer do things. In other words, it does not work over the internet and support may be spotty or release dependent.
The question seems to evince some confusion about the roles of the client and the server. These are terms of art in modern computer design. More information is available here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/A_11271-Understanding-Client-Server-Protocols-and-Web-Applications.html
The server can respond to a client request by sending a document, but it cannot initiate an action on the client machine. In other words, if your clients are using the internet to talk to your server, then the clients have to be the ones that tell the browser to print the document. However if you're using a networked printer on Windows, you may be in luck.
Please see http://www.php.net/manual/en/printer.installation.php
It's a windows-only extension that is intended to make a networked printer do things. In other words, it does not work over the internet and support may be spotty or release dependent.
Thanks for your points
Have a nice day
Duncan
Have a nice day
Duncan
While most browsers have a way to open a PDF these days, you can not force it to be printed. It is one of the basic security restrictions in all browsers is that you can not force anything to be done on the user's computer. They have to be able to approve anything you want to do on their machine. That includes printing and downloading and uploading files.