Laravel Printing allows your application to directly send PDF documents or raw text directly from a remote server to a printer on your local network. Receipts can also be printed by first generating the raw text via the Rawilk\Printing\Receipts\ReceiptPrinter class, and then sending the text as a raw print job via the Printing facade.

$printJob = Printing::newPrintTask()
    ->printer($printerId)
    ->file('path_to_file.pdf')
    ->send();

$printJob->id(); // the id number returned from 
the print server

Supported Print Drivers:

• PrintNode: https://printnode.com
  
• CUPS: https://cups.org
• Custom: Configure your own custom driver

General Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or greater
• Laravel 8.0 or greater
• A printer on your local network that you can print to and that your selected printer can access.
• A receipt printer if you are printing receipts

Installation

You can easily install this package via composer by running this command in your terminal:

composer require rawilk/laravel-printing

You can publish the config file with this command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Rawilk\Printing\PrintingServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Basic Usage

Most operations through this package can be done with the Printing facade.

Listing printers

You can fetch all available printers on your print server like this:

$printers = Printing::printers();

foreach ($printers as $printer) {
    echo $printer->name();
}

No matter which driver you utilize, each $printer object will be an instance of Rawilk\Printing\Contracts\Printer. More info on the printer object is here.

Finding a Printer

You can find a specific printer if you know the printer’s id:

Printing::find($printerId);

Default Printer

If you have a default printer id set in the config file, you can easily access the printer via the facade:

Printing::defaultPrinter(); // returns an instance of Rawilk\Printing\Contracts\Printer if the printer is found

// or for just the id
Printing::defaultPrinterId();

Creating a New Print Job

You can send jobs to a printer on your print server by creating a new print task:

Printing::newPrintTask()
    ->printer($printerId)
    ->file('path_to_file.pdf')
    ->send();

This package has a lot more features and many usage examples with code. If you want to learn more about this package you can visit its complete documentation and source code on Github.