print option with django application

[Ketul Suthar]

I want to print data from database when user click on print button.

how can I achieve it ?

Is there any in-built module in djnago for printing data ?

[Jason]

if you just want to print data that's already on the page, but in different style, you need to implement a print-specific CSS stylesheet for your templates

if you want to print data that doesn't exist in the page, there's no way to do that.  You can implement a server side view that will trigger a download response to the browser, but forcing an automatic print is not doable.

[Larry Martell]

You cannot force the user to print. What I do in these situations is
generate a pfd (with wkhtmltopdf) and then the user can print that.

[johnf]

I wonder what solutions there are for print from a django app? Is it
possible to use reportlab for example.  Or is there some other solution
that is normally used from django apps?

Johnf

[Matthew Pava]

We use gsprint (for Windows printing) and Ghostscript.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsprint.htm
https://www.ghostscript.com/

We have generic print view, and when users click on a button on the UI, our app generates a PDF and then sends that to a printer on the local network. The printers are all set up under the user who is running the web server, in this case, Apache. To print to printers at the user's desk, we turned on print sharing for those printers and set up the web server user to be able to print to those from the server hosting the webserver. We have a model, ComputerProfile, that associates a shared printer with a client computer. If the user is logged into that computer, the app choose the printer at that computer. There is also a default printer as a fall back.

Yes, you can print directly to a printer from Django (or any web app) using this method.

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