Auto Print - Black Ice Printer Driver API

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The Auto Print samples provide developers with a framework for creating automated printing or document conversion solutions either with or without user interaction. The Auto Print technology can be used with Black Ice printer drivers or with physical printers.

By using Auto Print technology, an application can automatically print out commonly used documents without any user interaction. The BiAutoPrint controls can be used by developers to print Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office Documents (DOCX, DOC, DOCM, DOT, DOTX, TXT, RTF, XLSX, XLS, XLSM, XLSB, CSV, PPSX, XPS, PPS, PPSM, PPT, PPTX, PPTM, Visio), Image Files (TIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG), AutoCAD (DWG), XPS, HTM and HTML files.

The Resource Toolkit contains samples with full source code written in C++, Delphi, C#, VB.NET, and ASP.NET that show how to implement applications capable of Auto-printing. These simple but powerful samples can help developers build applications that can print out MS Office documents such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, AutoCAD, HTML, XPS files and Adobe PDF files without any user intervention.

Some of the business applications of the auto-print technology are:

• Document Content based conversion. Invoice number determines conversion type.
• Fax server receives a Microsoft Office document from client and automatically converts it to fax.
• Desktop document conversions.
• Archiving application
• Any applications that requires server based document conversion
• Unattended Batch converters
• Unattended Batch printing to physical printers.

The Auto Print sample can be modified and enhanced by developers to include support for additional file types such as Post Script, by integrating any addition, third party, printing modules such as “GSview” for Post Script.

The source code is not available in DEMO Resource Toolkit.

For technical details please see the Resource Tool Kit on-line manual.