From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-03-29T05:27:49+09:00
Subject: Re: print to a label printer directly

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?

On Friday, March 26, 2010, Mario Antonetti <mjtanton@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>