Remote Print to ipaddress

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October 29, 2010
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We are currently running CF8. Been tasked to research capability to remote print to a printer via ipaddress. Have found that capability exists to route to printer recognized by CF server. However, the quantity of printers prohibit adding all of these to that list. Was wondering if the destination printer ipaddr was known, is it possible to programatically route document to printer using that information. Thanks.

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ronboy30Author

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So am I correct in assuming that cfprint cannot be used unless each of the destination printers are recognized by the CF Administrator?

ilssac

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More or less.

CFPrint can work with any printer configured in the "Windows Printers and Faxes" for the user that ColdFusion runs as; LocalSystem by default. But you will probably need to change this to some domain user with permissions to the network printers if you have not done the before for some purpose.

ilssac

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That would be between you and your printer.

If the printer is capable of receiving jobs through an IP address (many enterprise, network printers have features like this), then CF can easily send requests to an IP with the <cfhttp....> tag.

Network printers often can also be setup to print documents from a watch directory. And ColdFusion can easily be set up to write files to network directories.

The main point of this reply is that it is all about the printer and it's capabilities. ColdFusion has nothing to do with it other then possibly moving some files around. It has no idea that this is causing printing and just does not care.

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