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debodunmcg
debodunmcg

Reputation: 33

Printing dynamic django view template

I'm working on a django app. I have a page that displays a log of items, and each item has a "Print label" link. At the moment, clicking the link displays the label for that particular item in a popup screen, but does not send the label to a printer. The view function behind the "Print label" link is shown below:

@login_required
def print_label(request, id):
     s = Item.objects.get(pk = id)
     return render_to_response('templates/label.html', {'s': s}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

The HTML for the label is shown below:

{% load humanize %}
<head>
    <style type="text/css">
        div{
            min-width: 350px;
            max-width: 350px;
            text-align: center;
        }
        body{
            font-family: Arial;
            width: 370px;
            height: 560px;
            text-align: center;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="labelHeader">
        <img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}img/label-header.png" width="350px">
    </div>
    <hr/>
    <p></p>
    <div id="destinationAddress">
        <span style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;">{{ s.item_number }}</span> 
        </p>
        DESTINATION:
        <br/>
        <strong>{{s.full_name}}</strong><br/>
        <strong>{{ s.address }}</strong><br/>
        <strong>{{s.city}}, {{s.state}}</strong><br/>
        <strong>Tel: {{s.telephone}}</strong>
    </div>
    <p></p>
    <hr/>
    <div id="labelfooter">
        <img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}img/label-footer.png" width="350px">
    </div>
</body>

My question is, how can I also send the label displayed to a printer in the same function? I researched and found some libraries (like xhtml2pdf, webkit2png, pdfcrowd, etc), but they'll create a pdf or image file of the label and I'll have to send it to a printer. Is it possible to send straight to a printer without creating a pdf copy of the label? If so, please show me how to achieve this.

Your answers and suggestions are highly welcome. Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2167

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599610

Presumably, as this is a Django app, it's the client's printer that you need to use. The only way to do this is to tell the user's browser to print. You will need to use Javascript for this: window.print().

Upvotes: 3

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