Quick Start: Sending a print stream to a network printer using the web service API

The following C# code example sends a PostScript print stream to a network printer named \\Printer1\\Printer. Two copies are sent to the printer.

/*

 * Ensure that you create a .NET client assembly that uses 

 * base64 encoding. This is required to populate a BLOB 

 * object with data or retrieve data from a BLOB object.

 * 

 * For information, see "Invoking LiveCycle ES using Base64 Encoding" 

 * in Programming with LiveCycle ES

 */

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.IO;

namespace SendToPrinter

{

    class Class1

    {

        [STAThread]

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            try

            {

                //Create a OutputServiceService object

                OutputServiceService outputClient = new OutputServiceService();

                outputClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("administrator", "password");

                //Create a BLOB object that stores form data

                BLOB inData = new BLOB();

                //Reference XML data to merge with the form design

                string inputFileName = "C:\\Adobe\\Loan.xml";

                FileStream fs = new FileStream(inputFileName, FileMode.Open);

                //Get the length of the file stream and create a byte array 

                int len = (int)fs.Length;

                byte[] byteArray = new byte[len];

                //Populate the byte array with the contents of the file stream

                fs.Read(byteArray, 0, len);

                //Populate the BLOB object

                inData.binaryData = byteArray;

                //Set print run-time options

                PrintedOutputOptionsSpec printOptions = new PrintedOutputOptionsSpec();

                printOptions.copies = 2;

                printOptions.lookAhead = 300;

                printOptions.recordLevel = 1;

                //Create empty objects to pass as arguments

                //to the generatePDFOutput method

                //These objects are populated by the method

                BLOB generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc = new BLOB();

                BLOB generatePDFOutputResultDoc = new BLOB();

                OutputResult outResult = new OutputResult();

                //Generate a PostScript print stream

                outputClient.generatePrintedOutput(

                    PrintFormat.PostScript,

                    "Loan.xdp",

                    "C:\\Adobe",

                    "C:\\Adobe",

                    printOptions,

                    inData,

                    out generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc,

                    out generatePDFOutputResultDoc,

                    out outResult);

                //Get the PostScript print stream to send to the printer

                BLOB psPrintStream = outResult.generatedDoc;

                //Specify the print server and the printer name

                String printServer = "\\\\Printer1";

                String printerName = "\\\\Printer1\\Printer";

                //Send the PostScript print stream to the printer

                outputClient.sendToPrinter(

                    inData,

                    PrinterProtocol.SharedPrinter,

                    true,

                    printServer,

                    printerName);

            }

            catch (Exception ee)

            {

                Console.WriteLine(ee.Message);

            }

        }

    }

}

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