Printing a document without opening it in Oracle Forms 10g

Question

Hi Friends,
This is my first thread in this forum. Please any one give me a solution for my below request.
We use oracle 10g and windows (any version). I want to print some files available in a folder without opening it (run in background) through oracle forms.
My requirement is:
A folder contains 10 files of word and excels documents. The client machine user (for example 3 clients’ machines who has different default printer configuration) has to trigger the print command to print the documents.
* I have found Article "Java Bean to print a file to Local Printer" (http://forms.pjc.bean.over-blog.com/article-6621538.html). I do think it will help.
* I have found a windows command prompt print concept.
PRINT mytext.txt /D:LPT2
Prints a text file.
PRINT [D:device] [[drive:][path]filename[...]]
/D:device specifies a print device.
* The command prompt print syntax is used with webutil function as given below.
CLIENT_HOST('cmd PRINT mytext.txt /D:LPT2);
1) is the web util syntax only enough for this requirement?
2) In this how to find the default printers in each client machines and use in the place of syntax?
3) Or any other ways available for this requirement.
I look forward solution for this question....!

Answer 1

Hi Jeshra,
Another option would be to find or write a Windows PowerShell script to print any file and then call that from CLIENT_HOST. Many file types, including Microsoft Office files, have a print operation registered with Windows so you can right-click on them in Windows Explorer and choose "Print." You should be able to exploit this ability with PowerShell.
A quick Google search revealed this potential PowerShell solution:
http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/karl-prosser/archive/2009/02/10/print_2D00_file_2D00_function.aspx
PowerShell is installed by default only on Windows 7 so you would have to install it on older Windows clients.
Hope that helps,
Brian