Direct Printing for Laravel Apps

Aug 6, 2020 565 stars by Paul Redmond

Direct printing for Laravel apps

Printing for Laravel

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Printing for Laravel allows your application to directly send PDF documents or raw text directly from a remote server to a printer on your local network. Receipts can also be printed by first generating the raw text via the Rawilk\Printing\Receipts\ReceiptPrinter class, and then sending the text as a raw print job via the Printing facade.

$printJob = Printing::newPrintTask()
    ->printer($printerId)
    ->file('path_to_file.pdf')
    ->send();

$printJob->id(); // the id number returned from the print server

Supported Print Drivers:

PrintNode: https://printnode.com
CUPS: https://cups.org
Custom: Configure your own custom driver

Documentation:

For documentation, please visit: https://randallwilk.dev/docs/laravel-printing

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require rawilk/laravel-printing

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="printing-config"

The contents of the default configuration file can be found here: https://github.com/rawilk/laravel-printing/blob/main/config/printing.php

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email randall@randallwilk.dev instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

Randall Wilk
All Contributors
Mike42 for the PHP ESC/POS Print Driver library

Inspiration for the PrintNode API wrapper comes from:

Inspiration for certain aspects of the API implementations comes from:

stripe-php

Disclaimer

This package is not affiliated with, maintained, authorized, endorsed or sponsored by Laravel or any of its affiliates.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.