tojocky/node-printer

Native node.js printer

MBarrios

@MBarrios

Sorry.

Currently node-printer works perfectly for me.

But I need to print on a remote printer, isolating some TCP / IP protocol and port.

so that the client using the web system can print a printer other than the sea that belongs to them. Is this possible?

Simanto Rahman

@Simanto_Rahman_twitter

This uses some native functionalities of CUPS to send buffers and what not.
I'd say, this would be a better usecase.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ipp

Austin

@austtn

An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild
Unable to find electron's version number, either install it or specify an explicit version

when i run electron-rebuild

Simanto Rahman

@Simanto_Rahman_twitter

Which version of electron and node are you on?

Austin

@austtn

current node just updated and idk what electron version or if i even have it installed

where do i install electron

Simanto Rahman

@Simanto_Rahman_twitter

Ok let's go over how far you've gone through setting up

How did you start off the project?

richardritech

@richardritech

Anyone can tells me if this library runs in latest version of electron and how can i install it? There is a erro telling me that the version compiled of node is not the version required and when i run electron-rebuild or node-gyp there is a error in the rebuild too

Simanto Rahman

@Simanto_Rahman_twitter

I believe this should be documented.

@richardritech for the node module to work on your version of electron, you need ‘node-gyp’ and ‘electron-rebuild’. Read the usage on electron rebuild. It will rebuild node-printer for the correct version of nodejs.

Vinícius Montanheiro

@vmontanheiro

Hello guys, just a question, is it possible to choose the pages for printing? Something like pageFrom and pageTo?

Vinícius Montanheiro

@vmontanheiro

Hello guys, just a question, is it possible to choose the pages for printing? Something like pageFrom and pageTo?

vijayabalansujan

@vijayabalansujan

i need help for thermal printer

need a example code for epson thermal printer in windows plateform.pls guys urgent.

Cloud Han Xiao

@cloudhx

Dear all, I'm new to node-printer and want to use it in electron 7.1.13 with node 12.16.3, need help on how to install the package and build it, I simply cannot install it correctly. Thank you!

Cloud Han Xiao

@cloudhx

I can install fork thiagoelg/node-printer successfully and it works well with Electron 7.1.13 and node 12.16.3, thanks.

Vladimir Ruzic

@ruzpuz

Hi all. I just started a project using electron 9.0.0 and when trying to use this module it fails with

Error: The module '/Users/vladar/workspace/project/node_modules/printer/lib/node_printer.node' was compiled against a different Node.js version using NODE_MODULE_VERSION 80. This version of Node.js requires NODE_MODULE_VERSION 72. Please try re-compiling or re-installing the module (for instance, using `npm rebuild` or `npm install`).

I switched to thiagoelg/node-printer and it does not work either... Is there any way to solve this?

Simanto Rahman

@Simanto_Rahman_twitter

Did you try electron-builder?

Thiago Lugli

@thiagoelg

I've updated my fork to support Node 14 and Electron 9, feel free to check it out

I've also opened a PR to merge these changes to Tojocky original source(tojocky/node-printer#295)

sayam

@sayamssanghvi

hi all I wanted to use the module for printing some stuff can i directly run it as a file

like make app.js and app.js calls all the other functions in a certain manner

will it work

Kirill

@Microsxema

Hello! It is working in node v13?

(not electron)

Kirill

@Microsxema

I have a error - "The specified module could not be found."

Felipe Gustavo

@felipe-gustavo

Hi everybody, someone can help me make this works in my computer?

I no have idea what i can do to fix this

GabrielHumus

@GabrielHumus

I've got a Windows solution for all of you guys. Initially, I was trying to use a node printer to print PDF files, but I kept bumping into so many issues. Eventually, I realized that you can print PDFs from the command line using some programs, sumtra PDF and ghostscript + gsprint.
I packed it into an electron application and released it here cheap photo printer reviews as I use it for my company.

richardritech

@richardritech

Well i solved my problem by creating a c++ dll on windows for 32 bit only and using N-Api to integrate the c++ dll with node. Never happend a bug 100% working. Best idea ever.

afif-bouzid

@afif-bouzid

@richardritech thank you my friend !! I already use ffi-napi and I hadn't thought of that. thank you you are a genius

alanddos

@alanddos

Thanks to share, i'm cant make this lib run whith type pdf just print especial chars or give me the messageStartDocPrinterW error: code: 1804, message: O tipo de dado especificado é inválido.

Im using this:

var fs = require("fs");
print.printDirect({
data: fs.readFileSync(filename),
type: 'PDF',
printer: printerName, ....

alanddos

@alanddos

Im use the https://github.com/artiebits/pdf-to-printer solve to me thanks man

Geelus

@geelus

Hey guys, I'm trying to use this library but I'm getting an error on Mac. It works great on Windows through. The error says "No such file or directory".

here is my code:
var printer3 = require("@thiagoelg/node-printer");

printer3.printDirect({data:'text messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext messagetext message'
, printer:'192.168.1.40'
, type: "RAW"
, success:function(){
console.log("printed: ");
}
, error:function(err){console.log(err);}
});

return;

I really appreciate your help or anything that can lead to an answer.

Geelus

@geelus

Can I pay you guys to help me?

José GC

@josegoyo

nic seltzer

@nicseltzer

OS: Windows 10 // Node.js version: 14.17.5 // Electron version: 3.1.9

As administrator, run npm install --global windows-build-tools. This installs a handful of libraries and dependencies
needed to properly build the native code we will be compiling.

npm install printer -- Pretty straight forward. It should go out and grab dependencies. This didn't work for me on a
later version of Node.

FROM THE DIRECTORY WHERE printer is downloaded (this will almost certainly be node_modules), do the following:
npm config set msvs_version 2017
npm config set python C:\Users\n\.windows-build-tools\python27\python.exe
npx node-gyp rebuild --python C:\Users\n\.windows-build-tools\python27
npx node-gyp rebuild
npx electron-rebuild

I tried and failed with:

node-printer
electron-printer
@thiagoelg/node-printer -- this probably would have worked, but I didn't have the above information before getting started, so DOOM.

The exercise of how you integrate the package into your application is left to the reader. Documentation for the exposed API can be found here: https://github.com/tojocky/node-printer

Thanks for making this project. It saved me from having to do it myself.

gl hf

-- nic

Oh! And I added

externals: {
        'printer': 'commonjs printer'
    }

to the webpack for my main.

nic seltzer

@nicseltzer

Final thought -- windows-build-tools, I pinned to 4.0.0

hari

@hrydi

hi mr.tojocky thank you for the great tools

i wanna ask something
i just build electron app using this library, but today i face a problem
like the printer jobs never finished
it just stuck at the printer queue

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