Label Printing Chalenge

[Steve Dyke]

I am attempting to create a web app running on IE when in the user will scan a barcode and labels will be printed based on info of remote data look up. If at all possible I need this to be done without print driver dialog. I had in mind the user would select a printer and this would be stored as their label printing preference.

The first thing is to get a list of local installed printers that they can select in their preference dialog.

Is any of this possible?

[Eric Pascarello]

Going to have to require some sort of plugin/active-x control. Imagine going to a random site and it starts printing ads on your printer.

When I start to see requirements like this, I start to winder why in the world is this a web application and not a client application.

Eric

[Steve Dyke]

Eric Pascarello wrote:Going to have to require some sort of plugin/active-x control. Imagine going to a random site and it starts printing ads on your printer.

When I start to see requirements like this, I start to winder why in the world is this a web application and not a client application.

Eric

It is sort of both. It is an Intranet application where we control the browser config. It needs to be as generic as possible while still being able to run on machines from XP to win7.

I now have the printer driver list being generated.

try{
			var wshshell=new ActiveXObject("wscript.shell");
			var wshshell2=new ActiveXObject("wscript.network");
			username = wshshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%username%");
			userTemp = wshshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%");
						
			var Printers = wshshell2.EnumPrinterConnections();
			
			alert(Printers.length);
			
			
			for(i = 0;i<Printers.length;i++){
				printerArray = printerArray + Printers.Item(i) + "," + Printers.Item(i + 1) + ";";
								
				i++;
			}

Now if one of these is set up as a app attribute how can I tell the print output to use this driver?