I’m currently scoping a large ColdFusion, FarCry and Flex application at work. One of the requirements is server-side batch printing from PDFs that are already generated.
I knew about the cfprint tag but wanted to make sure it is up to scratch, so I wrote a quick example of how it works.
It’s a great tag, and a welcome addition to ColdFusion 8. You need to provide a UI / workflow however to reprint (in case the printer fails, etc) as the tag doesn’t really give you any notification of success/failed attempts to send to the printer (I suppose this is outside the scope of the tag, and where the operating system picks up).
Anyway, you can checkout the example. There’s not much to see online, but you can download the example and run it locally – its all server side printing.
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