printing over network from PHP app
You could use the LPR Printer class from here:
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2540-PHP-Abstraction-for-printing-documents.html
Example:
<?php include("PrintSend.php");include("PrintSendLPR.php");$lpr = new PrintSendLPR(); $lpr->setHost("10.0.0.17"); //Put your printer IP here $lpr->setData("C:\\wampp2\\htdocs\\print\\test.txt"); //Path to file, OR string to print. $lpr->printJob("someQueue"); //If your printer has a built-in printserver, it might just accept anything as a queue name.?>
This question has been asked before. See print to a network printer using PHP
The answer given that time was exec("lpr -P 'printer' -r 'filename.txt');
However, the answer was never accepted so not sure whether the OP found it helpful; it certainly looks like it ought to do the trick, but it's not quite a direct and easy method of doing it from within PHP.
A number of other resources I found were also recommending variations on this approach.
Digging a bit deeper, I see PHP has got a Printer module in PECL. However it's only for Windows, and looks like it's not well maintained. But in case it helps, the link it here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.printer.php
I think the answer ultimately is that PHP isn't really designed for this kind of thing, and doesn't have built-in functionality to do it. But since you can shell out to external commands using exec() and similar, it shouldn't be too hard to get it working, albeit not quite ideal.
Try PHP::PRINT::IPP
It worked perfectly for me.
Basic Usage
<?php require_once(PrintIPP.php); $ipp = new PrintIPP(); $ipp->setHost("localhost"); $ipp->setPrinterURI("/printers/epson"); $ipp->setData("./testfiles/test-utf8.txt"); // Path to file. $ipp->printJob(); ?>