note 40705 added to ref.printer

You can print in XP. AND, you can print to a shared printer with XP. The drivers for the printer MUST be installed on ther server as well as on the computer you wish to print with. Also, the printer must be shared on the client computer. I am using a Zebra LP2844 Thermal Barcode Printer in my application. I am running XP Pro,Apache 1.3.27, PHP 4.3+. Here is a function I use in our churches checkin system. I use this to print directly to our printer with out having to use any Javascript. First, i give the function the name of the shared printer. Second, I get the client computers host name. You could use just REMOTE_ADDR too I suppose. Then I return a correctly formatted Windows path to the shared printer for the function getPrinter($SharedPrinterName) { global $REMOTE_ADDR; $host = getHostByAddr($REMOTE_ADDR); return "\\\\".$host."\\".$SharedPrinterName; } $handle = printer_open(getPrinter("Eltron")); So, as long as you KNOW the computers are suppose to have a shared printer called "Eltron", you're all set to start sending info to the printer with the other Printer functions. -j ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.printer.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+40705 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+40705&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+40705&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php