>We are not quite sure as to what technology we are going to go with (either php or asp.net), and this is not my issue here.
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>What are the alternative approaches for printing in an operational environment (stockmanagement) where documents and labels have to be printed on the fly and reliably.
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>Thanks for any light you might shed on what is at this moment a somewhat perplexing problem for us.

Sorry that I won't be able to help you, except to say that I've seen it done - USPS, UPS have webpages where you can print your label. Not necessarily on the label printer, nor do they expect you to have one; you get a whole sheet PDF (which probably gets silently discarded after printing) and that's printed. I haven't looked into the code, but I guess the javascript shouldn't be too heavy.

The actual reason I'm writing this is the way I misread the thread title, as mentioning "label webassed printing".