Private printing

GemBox.Pdf
1

Hi all,

Does the Gembox.Pdf library provide a way for “private” or “safe” printing? I would like to send a document to the printer using silent printing, but I want the print job to be held until the user identifies himself at the printer. The printer supports this in the printing dialogue, can I achieve the same result with the library?

2

Hi Marcel,

Can you explain a bit what exactly do you mean by this?

Regards,
Mario

3

The user identifies himself at the printer with a password or card. The idea behind this is: this is a private print, I don’t want anyone else to pick this up from the printer.

The second use case is printing on specific paper without a specific paper bin. The user prints the document private but without password, prepares the right paper on the printer and presses the button on the printer to start printing.

4

Hi Marcel,

We have been investigating this feature, and we believe this is what you’ll need:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/print/sample-printticket-file-for-pin-printing

In short, you’ll need to create such a PrintTicket and then use it to create a PrintOptions from GemBox.Pdf, something like this:

using (var document = PdfDocument.Load("input.pdf"))
{
    PrintTicket ticket = ...
    var options = new PrintOptions(ticket.GetXmlStream());
    document.Print("printer name", options);
}

Regarding the second case, I’m afraid we were unable to find any information on this in the System.Printing namespace.

Regards,
Mario

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Hi Mario,

This might be the right direction indeed, thank you very much!

Best regards,

Marcel