Print the document to a specific printer

January 14, 2018     1 minute read

In one of my previous posts, I have discussed how to download and print a remote file. Here is the blog link Print Remote File

The solution in the above post will print the file to the default printer and recently I was working on a modification where I have to print the file to a specific printer instead of the default printer and couple of readers of my blog post also asked how to do this, so I would like to share today the solution for it.

I was checking online to modify my old solution to print to a specific printer and few suggested to me to use the arguments property of the ProcessStartInfo and also the below MSDN example suggests the same, but unfortunately, I was not successful using that property.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processstartinfo.verbs(v=vs.110).aspx

To solve this issue I have found another solution which is to use the Print Document and in fact, I think this is an easy solution when compared to the other solution in my previous post.

Below is the function for it

    PROCEDURE PrintFile@1000000018(FilePath@1000000002 : Text[250]);
    VAR
    PrinterName@1240060002 : Text;
    PrintDocument@1240060003 : DotNet "'System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument";
    PrinterSettings@1240060004 : DotNet "'System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings";
    BEGIN
        PrinterName := 'MF8200C Series';
        PrintDocument := PrintDocument.PrintDocument;
        PrintDocument.DocumentName := FilePath;
        PrinterSettings := PrinterSettings.PrinterSettings;
        PrinterSettings.PrinterName := PrinterName;
        PrintDocument.PrinterSettings := PrinterSettings;
        PrintDocument.Print;
        MESSAGE('Complete');
    END;
    

If you have any other Tips or suggestions, please do share them in the comments below.