>Reporting can be done in a number of ways from HTML pages that can be printed to CSS for formatting the printing to reporting tools like Active Reports or SSRS.
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>For Excel, it depends on what you need. It is not recommended to run Excel on the server. You can using something like Spread.Net or SpreadJS.
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>>Good question.
>>I'm working on a browser-based app now and the printing is the most difficult part of the app.
>>You can ask the same question about other peripherals.. scanners, etc., or interfacing with apps like Exel, etc and the answers will be fuzzy.

Thanks Craig. But I was wondering, these reporting tools operate from the server. So how do they know to which printer to print?