how do I print two or more printers simultaneously in one computer

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I have two or more printers and one computer. I want to print to both printers the same document at the same time... Thus when I press print on my document both printers will print the file simultaneously. please help me :( . some one can help me in c # windows form . thank you .

Posted 13-Jan-14 2:54am

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Marc Gabrie 14-Jan-14 6:30am

What kind of document do you need to print? or it's something that you have to create by yourself?

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2014-01-13T02:58:00

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(Here a no-code option of Windows - if fits... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781939(v=ws.10).aspx[^])

There is no command to print to multiply printers...
What you can do is send the documents two or more times, every time to a different printer.

Posted 13-Jan-14 2:58am

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Member 10332274 13-Jan-14 9:16am

thank you . yeah I know that there is no command to print to multiply printers .but I need if there is willing to help me on how to create a program that can help me to solve that problem

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 13-Jan-14 9:19am

"to create a program" - I can't help there.
It's you who have to start - Google some samples of document printing, than put together some code...
If you stuck with your code, than come back (together with your code) and ask questions...

Member 10332274 13-Jan-14 9:22am

ok thanks for the concerned .

David Knechtges · Answer 2 · 2014-01-13T03:18:00

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Simple, enumerate the printers on the computer, then print to whichever ones you want to print to. Here is how to enumerate the printers in C#:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354435/how-to-get-the-list-of-all-printers-in-computer-c-sharp-winform[^]

Posted 13-Jan-14 3:18am

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Member 10332274 13-Jan-14 9:25am

My question is how to print simultaneously in one computer or such two or more printers in one computer

Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 3 · 2014-01-13T03:54:00

From your application only, with no other solution in place, the one and ONLY option you have is to print to each printer individually. The Windows print subsystem does not provide functionality for printing the same document to multiple printers at the same time.

What the print subsystem does allow for is called "printer pooling". This means that two or more printers service the same print queue. This is used in high-volume print environments where one printer may take a long time to get to any one job. This still prints a single document to one printer. It's just a bunch of jobs get sent to the queue and each printer in the pool takes jobs from the queue whenever they can.

What you're referring to is called "broadcast printing". The only way to do requires you to write a new print driver. Your application would print it's job to this new print driver which then would re-print the job to each printer in the broadcast subscription.

There is off-the-shelf software that does this already. The ones that I know of are "LeadTools ePrint Professional" and "Intelliscribe". Though, it's been a long time since I've had to use them.

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