Print to standard printer from Python

Question

Is there a reasonably standard and cross platform way to print text  or even PS PDF  to the system defined printer   Assuming CPython here  not something clever like using Jython and the Java printing API

User · Answer

To print to any printer on the network you can send a PJL/PCL print job directly to a network printer on port 9100.

Please have a look at the below link that should give a good start:

http://frank.zinepal.com/printing-directly-to-a-network-printer

Also, If there is a way to call Windows cmd you can use FTP put to print your page on 9100. Below link should give you details, I have used this method for HP printers but I believe it will work for other printers.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpj06165

User · Answer

You can try wx library  It s a cross platform UI library  Here you can find the printing tutorial  https   web archive org web 20160619163747 http   wiki wxpython org Printing

User · Answer

This has only been tested on Windows   You can do the following   import os  os startfile  C  Users TestFile txt    print     This will start the file  in its default opener  with the verb  print   which will print to your default printer Only requires the os module which comes with the standard library

User · Answer

Unfortunately  there is no standard way to print using Python on all platforms  So you ll need to write your own wrapper function to print   You need to detect the OS your program is running on  then   For Linux -  import subprocess lpr    subprocess Popen   usr bin lpr   stdin subprocess PIPE  lpr stdin write your data here    For Windows  http   timgolden me uk python win32 how do i print html  More resources   Print PDF document with python  39 s win32print module   How do I print to the OS  39 s default printer in Python 3  cross platform

User · Answer

I find this to be the superior solution  at least when dealing with web applications  The idea is this  convert the HTML page to a PDF document and send that to a printer via gsprint   Even though gsprint is no longer in development  it works really  really well  You can choose the printer and the page orientation and size among several other options   I convert the web page to PDF using Puppeteer  Chrome s headless browser  But you need to pass in the session cookie to maintain credentials

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