Sending one print job to two printers

[colttaylor]

Hi everyone,

A customer of mine has asked that my point of sale software print its' end of day (x/z) reports out to a local report printer and simultaneously to a network shared printer at a remotely located company headquarters.

I'm posting this to find out if this kind of action can be implemented in Windows, or if I will have to code it directly into my software.

So assuming that two printer drivers are set up on the point of sale machine, can a single print job go to both printers at the same time?

Thanks for the help!
Peace,
Colt

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[MiggyD]

This had come up before (I think it was a VB forum). However, the person was supposed to print it out to two printers in the same office.

The advice give was to:

1) code a duplicate lines (one to printer1, one to printer2).

or

2) use a loop to print it twice (the second time using the 2nd printer). The idea with this response was: that the printers' RAM were large enough and it would seem to be simultaneous.


-MiggyD

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