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MeadCo's ScriptX: RAW (Direct) Printing example
This page illustrates using the rawPrinting object.
From version 6.3.436, ScriptX supports sending bytes directly to the printer. This is useful for scenarios such as the use of (say) Zebra label printers.
Please use View Source on this page to view the implementation of the example usage.
rawPrinting
Description
Represents the direct printing from within Internet Explorer functionality of ScriptX. Version 6.3.436 or later of ScriptX is required.
Direct printing allows for printing to programmable devices such as thermal label printers, whereby a label string can be sent directly to the printer. The Internet Explorer print engine is not used and takes no part in the process. The functionality available from rawPrinting is completely separate from that available from the printing object, and for this reason settings such as printer, paper size, orientation, etc. that may have been set on the printing object for Internet Explorer do not apply to the rawPrinting object.
NOTE: rawPrinting is not supported in any form of usage outside of Internet Explorer.
Sends the specified text directly to the printer. The string is not rendered in any way, its is sent to the printer for the printer to interpret. In this way, label printing commands or (say) postscript can be sent directly to the printer.
This method is synchronous; it will not return until the print is complete.
Syntax
rawPrinting.printString(sText)
Parameter
Description
sText
(String) text to print. The string is converted from Unicode to an ANSI string (bytes) and sent as-is to the printer.
Loads the specified file and sends the content directly to the printer. The file bytes are not rendered in any way, they are sent to the printer for the printer to interpret. In this way, postscript can be sent directly to the printer or label printing commands.
This method is synchronous; it will not return until the file load and print is complete.
Syntax
rawPrinting.printDocument(url)
Parameter
Description
url
(String) url of the file whose contents are to be sent to the printer. The url must be absolute but may refer to local (file://) resources.
The following simple but complete example shows how to print a label stored on the web server to a Zebra printer. The sample is assuming that some process has run on the server to generate and store the required label.
<head>
<!-- MeadCo Security Manager - using evaluation license -->
<object viewastext style="display:none"
classid="clsid:5445be81-b796-11d2-b931-002018654e2e"
codebase="smsx.cab#Version=6,3,436,01">
<param name="GUID" value="{0ADB2135-6917-470B-B615-330DB4AE3701}">
<param name="Path" value="sxlic.mlf">
<param name="Revision" value="0">
</object>
<!-- MeadCo ScriptX -->
<object id="factory" viewastext style="display:none"
classid="clsid:1663ed61-23eb-11d2-b92f-008048fdd814">
</object>
<script defer>
function printLabel() {
var p = factory.rawPrinting;
// select the Zebra printer
p.printer = "Zebra LP2844-Z"
// must give the full url of the file...
// The printDocument method is synchronous
p.printDocument(factory.baseURL("label.txt"));
}
</script>
</head>
