NYCPHP Meetup

[Jeff Wilhelm - NYPHP]

Some printers can take input via SMTP and FTP -- I know the network laser
printers we have can -- and since FTP functions are so easy to use from PHP
applications, that may be an easy and reliable method to look into.
 

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Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Re: Automatically Print Pages

Joseph Crawford codebowl-at-gmail.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:

> THe current situation is this.
>
> We use PHP for the warehouse tools section of the site.  THe tools are 
> hosted on a server at Rackspace that is also connected via VPN to our 
> local network.  We are trying to figure out how to do one of 2 things.
>
> 1.) have the files print locally on the workstations (Windows XP, IE).  
> We actually thought of the batch file but that would cause ALL PDF to 
> be sent to the batch file and we wouldnt want that.
> 2.) Have the server at rackspace send the lpr command to push the file 
> to the shared printer using lpr.
>
> #2 is the way i am thinking of going.  On the form there would be a 
> textbox that says Printer Name, they would scan a barcode that would 
> inject the printers shared name.  lpr would send the command to that 
> shared printer.
>
> The question is how do i know if the linux server at rackspace is 
> actually seeing the shared printers in-house here.
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph Crawford

I'd look at a mail-based solution (procmail?) for this. That might just be
me.



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