Re: Printing....

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 16:43, Steve Staples <sstaples@mnsi.net> wrote: > Ok, here is an interesting one... > > I am building an application, that basically listens for input on 2 ip > addresses (not a problem there)... then it does a bunch of stuff, puts > info to a terminal window (again, i dont think this will be an issue)... > but then once the user says "yep... print" i need to be able to connect > to a networked printer, and print the label... > > the printer will be accessable to the server (the server will be linux > based), so I just need to connect, and send data to it... is this > possble?? Of course. Check into CUPS. Here, specifically, are some command-line options: http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html I've done this multiple times myself. I may even still have some PHP code lying around. I'll try to take a look for it if you need it, but I highly doubt you'll have any issues. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/