pdf print to local printer

[Robbie]

Im getting a xml file and PDF file from our customer by email. I need a way in switch to print the pdf to a local printer in my office. we are building a flow that will read the xml and automatic make a order form but i want to print out the PDF file to be witch the order form, so the guys in the factory can see what the need to do.
If hav tried acrobat. but that does not work. (it opens acrobat reader but nothing happens).

[jan_suhr]

There are a few apps that will do that for you.

This is a good one that supports almost every printer. It is a service that you pay for but it is not expensive

https://www0.enfocus.com/en/appstore/product/printnode

[Shawn_Anderson]

I had to set something similar up for printing from a Mac and ended up using the Run Command app and the lp command. You'd need to do some digging for the exact printer name and options but it should work with something like this

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lp -d [i]printername[/i] -o InputSlot=tray-1 -o media=letter "%%InputFilePath%%"

[JimmyHartington]

On Windows I have used a node.js script with this package https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-to-printer
This has worked very well sending labels to a Zebra label printer.

[tdeschamps]

On Windows I have used a node.js script with this package https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-to-printer
This has worked very well sending labels to a Zebra label printer.

On windows, you can also install Sumatra PDF, who does have a CLI for printing : https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/C ... -arguments

[jan_suhr]

The Node.js, NPM pdf-to-printer use Sumatra PDF

[Robbie]

I had to set something similar up for printing from a Mac and ended up using the Run Command app and the lp command. You'd need to do some digging for the exact printer name and options but it should work with something like this

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lp -d [i]printername[/i] -o InputSlot=tray-1 -o media=letter "%%InputFilePath%%"

Well Im trying this option on my Mac but can not get it to work yet. the files are going true the run command but nothing happens.
lp -d Brother_HL_L2400DWE__ec916133479d_ (default) -o InputSlot=tray-1 -o media=letter "%%InputFilePath%%"

[Robbie]

After a day trying and google if found a working solution with the execute command in switch.
Command or path : /user/bin/lp
arguments : -d "my printer name" "%1"

[smithcohn12]

I’ve run into this with Switch before; is there any dedicated print utility in the Switch flow, which is much more reliable for automatically sending the generated PDF to a local Windows printer?

[Robbie]

I have not found any. And for all the other things you need to subscribe ore pay. This does the trick a very well for us.