To explain a bit about the issue I have.
I have a system that generates excel based shipping labels.
We're changing the approach to create them and now we're looking for a way to print them as fast as possible.
The ideal result would be a button on the website which right after being clicked just triggers a local printer (user side of course) and prints straight away from the default printer no dialogs or anything.
Right now I've found two possible approaches to this.
1 - Windows software that auto prints when a file enters a specific folder:
I've found many of these and they work pretty good, the issue is that none of them is able to print xlsx files, only txt and pdf.
2 - A Windows macro recorder that right clicks / prints the excel file:
Its actually amazing the speed of the printout if you right click / print an excel file, opens excel prints on defaults settings and closes. Then the file should be auto deleted.
I haven't found any software that can do this properly, I found AutoIt but I'm not sure if its what I'm looking for.
My ideal solution would actually be based on PHP / Javascript / Ajax
But I haven't found not even a clue on doing such a thing with an excel file. I know it's doable with pdf files opening them on a new window and using js window.print()
Yet I would really like to use the xlsx format due to the great control I have over them using the PHPexcel library.
There is likely a new much better approach to this that I'm probably missing.
Thanks for any help I can get!
