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Printing a form directly to a PCL printer (Linux)
Posted by: david on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 06:17 PM
Php Printing
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Let's say that you've built a web application with neat html tables & forms, and you want your users to be able to click on a button and send the page directly to a PCL printer from your app. Or you want the web application to automatically print the html form to a PCL printer. Here's how to do it with PHP:
Output the html to a temporary file, e.g. fopen($tmp_file, "w+") or die ("Print error: Can't write file $tmp_file.");
convert the html file into a postscript file using the perl command line utility "html2ps" (download html2ps) - e.g. exec("html2ps /tmp/form.html > /tmp/form.ps");
convert the postscript file to PC using ghostscript, e.g. exec("gs -sDEVICE=laserjet -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sOutputFile=/tmp/form.pcl -dNOPAUSE -q /tmp/form.ps -c quit"); In this case you are converting the file form.ps into form.pcl
simply use lpr -P$name_of_your_print_queue to print the file - e.g. exec("lpr -Pmy_laserjet /tmp/form.pcl"); Now this is assuming that you've already have the print queue setup - voila!
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