Send output to printer

[Mark Perschbacher]

I have run across several threads dealing with sending message data to a printer, but if someone could paste in a some of the tcl code to  do this, that would be great.  Also, I am wondering if this could be done within an xlate , or if it would be better to set up a proc in Outbound data, etc.   We were sending ORM messages  into one of our hosts, and capturing the IN1 data, but have decided to just generate a hard copy of the insurance data on a  Windows printer.  We are a Win2003, QDX 5.3 site.

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[James Cobane]

Mark,

Assuming you are on AIX and have printers/queues defined (i.e. myprintQ in this example), then by putting whatever information you want to print to a file, you can print that file.  Below are commands that you could execute within tcl to dump the information to a file and print it:

    exec echo “Here is some text to print” > print.txt

    exec lpr -PmyprintQ print.txt              

Hope this helps.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Mark Perschbacher]

We operate on a Windows 2003 platform.

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