Server Side Printing In ColdFusion 8

If you've ever needed server-side printing under programmatic control, ColdFusion 8 introduces a new <CFPRINT> tag.

<CFPRINT> prints PDF files (including those created using <CFDOCUMENT>, <CFREPORT> and <CFPDF>) to a printer of your choice.

At a minimum, <CFPRINT> requires just the name of the PDF file to be sent to the default system printer, but additional attributes can be used to specify the printer, copy count, the pages to print, as well as to pass lots of other printer settings. The list of available printers (and their names, as must be passed to <CFPRINT>)is listed in the ColdFusion Administrator.

And a new supporting GetPrinterInfo() function returns all sorts of information about specified printers.

You can use the cfprint tag to print any PDF document, including those generated by the cfdocument, cfpdf, and cfpdfform tag.

Also, you can use this tag to print Report Builder reports exported in PDF format.

Syntax

<cfprint 
     required 
     source = "absolute or relative pathname to a PDF file| PDF document variable" 
     type = "PDF"

     optional attribute
     Struct = "ColdFusion structure containing standard print request key-value pairs"
     color = "yes|no" 
     copies = "number of copies" 
     fidelity = "yes|no" 
     pages = "page or pages to print" 
     password = "PDF source file owner or user password" 
     paper = "letter|legal|A4|A5|B4|B5|B4-JIS|B5-JIS|any media supported by the printer" 
     printer = "string that specifies the printer name"
>