print to a label printer directly

[Mario Antonetti]

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Hello all,
I'm wondering what would be the best method to print to a label printer? I
need to print many labels from a rails application, and I need to do it on a
windows box (until we get a linux server up and running). It's been horrid
so far, the printer doesn't seem to want to respond to commands like
system("print /d:\\name\printer file_to_print") or even the command itself
run in the command line (applications like notepad print out their contents
fine, though). Is there a better way?

Mario

 

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Java has a pretty good set of printing APIs that I have use in the
past for everything from PDF to plain text. Perhaps you could use
JRuby to do it?