How Do I send buffer to Printer ?

[Jay Villa]

Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTemplateFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath("template.txt"))

strTemplateText = objTemplateFile.ReadAll
objTemplateFile.Close
Set objTemplateFile = Nothing

strTextToPrint = strTemplateText
strTextToPrint = Replace(strTextToPrint, "{date}", Date())
strTextToPrint = Replace(strTextToPrint, "{time}", Time())
strTextToPrint = Replace(strTextToPrint, "{message}", strMessage)
Response.Write strtexttoprint

How do I send strTextToPrint to my default printer ?

-Jay

 

[[MSFT]]

Hello Jay,

Since the strTextToPrint has been send to client browser, I think you can
call "window.print" on client to print current page on default printer.

Luke

 

[Jay Villa]

Actually I dont want to print entire page only the the contents of
strTextToPrint. window.print.

 

[[MSFT]]

Hello Jay,

With client script, we can only print the content of whole page. Anyway, I
think there may be a work aound for the issue: add a iFrame element on your
page (Maybe invisible if necessary). After a fill in data and select the
template, you may display the result page in the iFrame element and call
window.print in it.

Luke

 

[Jay Villa]

Thanks Luke for your suggestion. Actually I used print window/area as shown
below and it worked as I wanted.

var printWin = window.open("","PrintWindow");
printWin.document.open();
printWin.document.write(sContents);
printWin.document.close();
printWin.print();

 

[[MSFT]]

That should be nice work around. Thank you for update

Luke