WebPrint Solution

Solution for printing from Web Server to local printers.

Sample Use Cases

Bellow are provided few sample use cases:

1. Printing take away/delivery orders from central server to a POS printer in restaurants,
2. Printing labels on Zebra Label Printers from web browser of mobile phone,
3. RAW printing to dot-matrix printers from web server,
4. Printing sales reports every morning from cloud server on local printer.

Architecture

Standard deployment consists of:

1. One Server Instance - Laravel Application installed on server available on the internet
2. Minimum of one Service Instance - PHP Application running as a service on a local server which downloads print jobs from Server and pushes them to connected printers.
3. Printers to print, which are connected to Service Instance
4. Client applications - end user apps connecting to server using API. There is PHP Library and JavaScript Library for easy integration.

User flow and headless flow

WebPrint is prepared for a flow when everything is automated, for cases when prints are submited via cron jobs, but also there is a dialog mode permitting user to select on which printer, job will be printed and (in case of PPD mode, on CUPS server) printing options, like duplex mode, color/grayscale or paper size.

Tutorials

• Print on USB printer from your web application - sharing USB printer using Raspberry Pi and WebPrint (coming soon)
• Print ZPL labels directly from your server (coming soon)