Print server page with .Net (without WinForms)

Question

Hey print professionals, I need some pointers to get me in the right direction for this development.

I am developing an epos system for a local store, which we are going to later connect with an e-commerce site.

The front of the epos system will be WinForms, so we can easily manage USB devices, and we will use the WebForms / MVC admin console.

One area in which we are inexperienced is printing. We need to print the barcodes and do this through the admin console (on the website).

So (finally) a question. Where do we start to look for code that will allow us to print directly to the connected printer from a server instance (IIS) .net from web forms.

Answer 1

System.Drawing.Printing 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.aspx

Creating a document is much like creating a dynamic image. I actually did not send the document to the printer from the web application, but I do not understand why you could not.

Answer 2

A web application will probably have to use a remote connection to connect to a Windows service running on the same computer (or select your favorite IPC engine — perhaps the queue in the database). This service can work in the full context of trust and should be able to print for you.

Answer 3

You can set up a local printer that simply transferred traffic to a network printer. It is easier to configure to print directly to a network printer. See link text