Send direclty to printer

[Fedic]

I have an ASP that pulls several records back from a MSSQL database via VB
script. I'm trying to create a link that I can place at the end of each record
that when clicked will send a preformatted page containing specific fields from
the record to a printer. I need this to happen without genereating a dialog
box.

I have the page already coded with the fields I want to print. I have been
able to create a link at the end of each record that properly displays the data
for that particular record. And when that page is printed (to a label printer)
it prints correctly.

Now I need to send this page without it or the dialog box ever being
displayed. So the process would be:
1. The user conducts a search and retrieves records.
2. The user wants to generate a label for one of the records containing data
from several of the fields by clicking on "Print Label"
3. The user clicks on "Print Label" for the record and a label is instantly
printed without a dialog box.

How do I do this?

[darrel]

> I have an ASP that pulls several records back from a MSSQL database via VB

> script. I'm trying to create a link that I can place at the end of each

record

> that when clicked will send a preformatted page containing specific fields

from

> the record to a printer. I need this to happen without genereating a

dialog

> box.

To a specific printer on the network? If so, then you might be able to do
that on the back end.

If it's to the end-users printer, I know of now way to bypass the browsers
print-dialogue box. But, if you are strictly talking about Windows users
using IE, perhaps there is some way to do that via ActiveX.

-Darrel

[Fedic]

Is there perhaps a way to accomplish this using javascript?

If I were to use activex to accomplish this where do I find the activex
component and how do I use it? My intent is to do this on a Windows PC only
probably running Win2000 or XP.