I’m trying to print a word document from an ASP.NET core web API (we still use .net core 3.1). On my development machine, it works fine, however on the test server the call to the DocumentModel.Print method hangs. To speed up testing I created a .NET Core 3.1 console app and it produces the same re…

We have investigated this issue thoroughly, but I’m afraid we didn’t find a solid solution (one that would work with any printer). However, note that the .NET team was able to resolve this in .NET 5.0, see this comment . Unfortunately, the fix was not backported to 3.1. Regards, Mario

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Print Word file from ASP.NET Core 3.1 WebApi

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marko.gembox June 29, 2022, 2:25pm 2

Unfortunately, this is a known issue. You can read more about it in this thread: Printing Word file from .NET Core Windows Service