Orchestrating a Printing Process with SSIS

All, 
I have a solution designed in a combination of SSIS and SSRS where SSRS is used as a platform to render warehouse Pick Tickets into a PDF file and among other things, SSIS performs the orchestration being initiated once an order is submitted through the
company's web site, rendering the order to a PDF and sending to the correct tray, on the correct printer in the warehouse. We have multiple printers. 
I'm looking for a new way to communicate between the rendered file and the printer. Today, I use a tool called Total PDF Print, but the tool hangs and throws a lot of exceptions leading us to believe this is not an enterprise ready tool. 
We need a tool that will be able to send a PDF file to an specific tray in a printer. 
Can you guys recommend anything to us?

Many laser printers can accept PDF files directly.  Or I have had good luck converting PDF to postscript using
XPDF.
In either case once you have a file the printer can handle, you can copy it directly to the printer using \\printserver\printer, just as if the printer were a file share.
The other alternative is to use a program that can render (rasterize) a PDF and have it interact with the printer.
David
David http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/

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