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I am just going to say this...don't really know if I am right because I kind of 
jumped in at the end of this conversation but couldn't you have CF create the 
page based off of user input and have CF then write a file based off of that, 
have it setup as a printer friendly document and have CF store it in specific 
directories which would then print it to the correct file.

Or better yet couldn't you use ColdFusion Builder and create the forms look and 
feel and based off of the form that is used to populate the data from the user 
- CF could stipulate which printer it should go to and print to it?

Carl

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/27/2006 11:59:31 AM >>>

I've never approached this problem from a windows platform, its one of those
things that was easy to script in linux.  We did this for Invoices,
warehouse pick lists, and shipping manifest / label printing from a CF app.

However there exists some utilities for windows that you can configure to
watch a directory and submit files to a predefined printer queue, such that
you can write a file to one of these directories from CF and see it appear
on a designated printer.  Google turned up PrintFile -
http://www.lerup.com/printfile/descr.html.

I'm not a huge fan of this solution though, as I would want something I
could trigger when I wanted  and monitor the state of vs a process
monitoring directories to take action.  Also looks like PrintFile is pretty
limited in the raw formats it can work with, so you may have to jump thru
hoops to even get something like that to work.

I'm hoping someone else has a more elegant solution for this.

Trey

On 9/26/06, coldfusion. developer @ att. net coldfusion. developer @ att.
net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Yes Trey you are correct.  I want to do the "send to printer"
> and have it print a page or file that won't be visible or downloadable
> to the user.
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