Web Direct Print Plug-in

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We all know that it's impossible to do native print in a browser that bypasses the browser's print dialog, however, we have the need to do a direct print, ideally where we could also select a particular printer, and other settings programmatically.

I know that ActiveX plug-ins exist that do this, however, we all know that ActiveX plug-ins only work in IE. Is there an existing plug-in, either in Flash or Silverlight that allows us to programmatically set printer properties and then direct print without opening the browser's native dialog?

A Java solution would be okay too. But clearly, it's not as desirable due to the installed footprint and ease of installation.

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4 Answers

One easy solution if the printers and the web-servers are on the same network is to have the web-server directly print to network attached printers. No user browser involvement at all.

If not then you can use a service like PrintNode (https://www.printnode.com). They take most of the complexity out of the problem but do require regular feeding with $ if your print usage is above their free tier.

I also considered Google CloudPrint but that fails from a web-server side because the web-server can't perform or redirect the login to the user.

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