Printing to specific printer from web page

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Hi All   We are currently in the process of developing a Point of sale system that would be run from desktop browser. A requirement is for the POS system to print directly to a specified printer without popping up the Printer select page of a browser. As far as I know its only possible to invoke the printing with js and pop up the printer options page of the browser.  Are there any other ways to accomplish printing directly to a printer from a desktop web browser?
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1 – change your printer (joke), some web enabled printers (e-series of HP for exmaple) does have a dedicated e-mail address where you can send an email with an attachment to print, if your printer has this feature, just send programatically an email with that attachment to it.

 

2 – Use custom Java in order to print; https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/printing/index.html


3 - If Windows OS, you can also print over cmd in combination with custom java ; https://superuser.com/questions/477895/printing-from-windows-7-command-line

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If its a point of sale system, its probably running on custom hardware, so write a custom browser to drop all the normal end user garbage. Use Qt or the Android SDK. Friendly greetings from Centurion!

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