Printing ONE document on 2 printers at a time

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I have created a virtual printer using redmon and I can successfully read \SNIFF the printED documents in my program, but my problem is I want to print the same document on the physical printer. Can I redirect the print job to another printer?

Posted 8-Aug-12 5:11am

vishnulalr

Updated 8-Aug-12 5:24am

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[no name] 8-Aug-12 11:27am

Is there something stopping you from printing on any other printer?

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lewax00 · Answer 1 · 2012-08-08T05:39:00

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You should be able to use any of the "Copy X to Printer" options of the port, then copy whatever input you receive in your program to that output. See this page[^] for instructions on how to use each of them.

Posted 8-Aug-12 5:39am

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vishnulalr 8-Aug-12 12:21pm

thanks for the reply i have tried it

when i use copy temperory file to printer and i set the physical printer driver but it shows printing and but actually printing is not done pls help

lewax00 8-Aug-12 12:56pm

Are you copying the input stream in your program to that file? because you'll have to modify your program for it to work, Redmon doesn't duplicate the stream on it's own.

vishnulalr 8-Aug-12 13:07pm

no actually i configure on the Control Panel->Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers->corresponding redirecterd printerdriver options such as copy temperory file to printer /copy standard out to /.etc but my program will print virtually and the physical printer shows the job and it gives a status message of printing but actually no printing is done

lewax00 8-Aug-12 15:07pm

If you read the link in my post, you'll see that what Redmon does is create an empty file and you have to pass that name in as an argument to your program, then your program has to duplicate the stream. If you're already working with the stream this should not be difficult, just write the stream out to the file specified by Redmon, then seek back to the start of the stream and do whatever it is you do with it in your program.

vishnulalr 9-Aug-12 23:42pm

it worked thanks.. lexwax