>>>>>>The reporting tools run in the browser. They should be able to print locally
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>>>>>I think printing from HTML is one of it's shortcomings. AFAIK there's only Window.Print() - or downloading a file to print manually ?
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>>>>Producing a pdf on the server
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>>>Right. But how is the pdf directed to the correct printer if processing occurs at the server.
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>>The user has to choose it from the print dialog.
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>To put it mildly, that can be a nuisance especially if multiple documents are printed on distinct printers.
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>But we have been thinking, in a LAN setting, and if the stations have fixed ip's (which the browser passes through), then based on a configuration scheme, the server could initiate the printing on the user's printers.
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>Was just wondering if that is viable solution.

Sure - you could give the user a drop-down list of available printers as determined by the server and print directly from the server.

>It would definitely not work on an extranet setting. So how are people solving that; Google printing?
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>>>And you can call me Grajowers, I guess... And I would not mind even if you put the s
>>>in front..;).
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>>>>>>>For example, our shipment department staff create a shipment and he need to print labels (could be as much as 50). Each operator has a pc an a label printer hooked up to it;