Re: How to automatically print webpage?

For the past few years, HP laserjet printers that one can buy new for $120 support direct-PDF. We replaced most of our old and outdated AS400 printers with these. The benefit is that we use Scott Klement’s PRTSTMF command to print .PDF files from our IFS to the printer directly from the AS/400.

For labels, we’re migrating to Zebra ZD500 thermal/ink printers with also support direct-PDF (with additional license). Again, with the PRTSTMF command. Our .PDF labels have been printing with zero issues as well.

No 3rd party packages necessary. It’s been working flawless, and fast for us. Prior to this, it was an old Windows Server package that was just causing us nothing but headaches over the years.

On Sep 19, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Retrieving the PDF with GETURI or HTTPAPI would be easy enough. From there
you just need to figure out how to print it. Hopefully in your database
you can then store the location and name of the file to associate it with
the order.

Some printers you can send PDFs to and they will print (I believe via FTP),
but not all of them.

I believe Printing PDFs from the IFS has been covered a few times over the
years. If the archive search is working, give it a go. Or just a Google
search may work too.

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:48 AM Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a trading partner that wants to begin sending us their shipping
label instead of us generating it inhouse with UPS Worldship.

They have offered to either email us a PDF, or to include the URL of the
label in the EDI document. Here's an example:
http://lb.123stores.com/bkaasv

What I would like to do is to automatically print this web page when
processing the inbound EDI file without any input from a user, but I'm not
quite sure how to go about doing so? Suggestions?

Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk
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