note 49953 modified in ref.com by danbrown

Printing to a network printer : read this note for : NOTE: Using COM with windows NT/2000/XP with apache as a service - Run dcomcnfg.exe - Find word application and click properties - Click the Security tab - Use Custom Access Permissions - Add the user who runs the web server service - Use Custom Launch permissions - Add the user who runs the web server service THEN <?php // starting word $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word"); print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; // bring it to front $word->Visible = 1; //this is for example a printer on my network $word->ActivePrinter = "\\\\192.168.4.201\\printer1"; // Open a word document, or anything else that word // can read $input ="c:\\test.html"; $word->Documents->Open($input); $word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut(); // closing word $word->Documents[1]->Close(false); $word->Quit(); // free the object $word->Release(); $word = null; unset($word); ?> --was-- Printing to a network printer : read this note for : // NOTE: Using COM with windows NT/2000/XP with apache as a service // - Run dcomcnfg.exe // - Find word application and click properties // - Click the Security tab // - Use Custom Access Permissions // - Add the user who runs the web server service // - Use Custom Launch permissions // - Add the user who runs the web server service THEN // starting word $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instanciate Word"); print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; // bring it to front $word->Visible = 1; //this is for example a printer on my network $word->ActivePrinter = "\\\\192.168.4.201\\printer1"; // Open a word document, or anything else that word // can read $input ="c:\\test.html"; $word->Documents->Open($input); $word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut(); // closing word $word->Documents[1]->Close(false); $word->Quit(); // free the object $word->Release(); $word = null; unset($word); its based on : at last i did it with lot's of thanks too : http://il.php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php http://php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php