Automatically printing

First off, this is not a ColdFusion application. Can anybody throw out some, hopefully easy, ways to do some automatic bulk printing.  I have a process that generates a series of text reports.  I would like to have these automatically sent to a printer.   The challenge is that to print properly the printer needs to be configured in a non-standard way. I can easily do this by opening each report in a simple editor, change the orientation to landscape and scale the output to fit on a standard 8.5x11 page.  But I am looking for suggestions on how I could automate this. Thanks Ian

You should be able to set the printer driver itself. force the document to print the way the printer says to ... On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Ian Skinner < hof@sierraoutdoorrecreation.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Erika L. Walker wrote: > You should be able to set the printer driver itself. force the document to > print the way the printer says to ... Can you expand on what you mean by just set the printer driver? I tried setting 'printer preferences' for the driver in the printer control panel, but that did not seem to have any affect on what I printed.  And I still have to open each file in an editor to print them.

You should be able to batch process the files... are they .txt files? Might have to use some fancy dos .bat to spool em to the printer. Adobe PDF's hold printer settings ... if you used a .bat process to run the .txt's into PDF's with the printer setting you need, then spool them all to the printer .. what that exact .bat process is - well ... I know the possibility just not the code ... On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Ian Skinner < hof@sierraoutdoorrecreation.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

This app supports batch printing .... http://www.verypdf.com/pdfcamp/pdf-writer/doc-to-pdf.html On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Erika L. Walker <elwalker@ruwebby.com>wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Here's another possibility http://www.sharewareconnection.com/batch-doc-print.htm If you were doing pdf's to a fiery rip or a xerox docutech ... I could give you another option in the control panels for said equipment ... but that's probably not the case eh? On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Erika L. Walker <elwalker@ruwebby.com>wrote: > This app supports batch printing .... > > http://www.verypdf.com/pdfcamp/pdf-writer/doc-to-pdf.html > > >