Web Based Printing

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Andrew Robinson

I have a web site that needs to print or fax a series of office (word and
excel) and/or PDF documents. Does anyone know of a service / api that will
allow me to print or fax these as a group? i.e. one fax or continuous
printed document.

-Andy
 
I have a web site that needs to print or fax a series of office (word and
excel) and/or PDF documents. Does anyone know of a service / api that will
allow me to print or fax these as a group? i.e. one fax or continuous
printed document.

-Andy
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There are a lot of faxing solutions but a specific one I know of is
http://www.dataoncall.com/web-fax-api/index.jsp

You can either send an email to kick off the fax or do a POST to their
service with your information in it.

I'm not sure about printing. Are the printers located within your
offices or in one specific location or are there numerous destinations
like a users printer at their house?
 
Thanks for the pointer Jeff, but I am looking for something that I can host
on my own server.

-Andy
 
Hi Andy,

Regarding on sending FAX, the raw interface on windows platform should be
tha TAPI api, however, due to the complexity of TAPI and time consuming for
completely developing a FAX solution via TAPI, it does be preferred to use
an existing component. Here are some FAX components I've searched:

#FaxMan - ActiveX/DLL/.NET - V4.0
http://www.componentsource.com/products/faxman/index.html

#RFax 1.1 for .NET - Fax component
http://www.java4less.com/fax_dotnet.htm

IMO, since your main application is ASP.NET web application, you can
consider separate the FAX sending service from your web application. for
example, you can use a standard winform or console or service application
to host the FAX sending program and let your web application send FAX
sending request to the FAX service application (through remote method call)
in a queued model, this can make your web application loose coupled with
the FAX functionality.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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