Printing without direct PDF printing support

If your network printer does not support direct PDF printing, you can print PDFs either through a file share and a PDF reader, or by configuring a local printer. See Adding a printer to a connection.

  1. Define a Windows Server Printer device on the LN server.
    1. In LN, start the Device Data (ttaad3500m000) session.
    2. Add a device.
      Points of attention:
      Device Type
      Select Windows Server Printer.
      Argument for Conversion Program
      In an on-premises LN installation on a Unix or Windows platform, specify -cloudPrinting
      In a cloud installation, leave blank.
      Device Queue
      • For a network printer, specify the UNC path in this format: \\servername\printername .
      • For a local printer, i.e. a printer that is available under “Printers and scanners” on the Windows machine where the transfer service is running, use the local name to specify the printer. This name must match the name of the local printer.

        For a local printer, you can skip steps 2 and 3 as the Transfer Service can print the PDF itself.

      See the online help of the Device Data (ttaad3100s000) session.
  2. On the client, install a PDF reader that can open the pdf and send it from a command line to the printer.
    For example, install Sumatra PDF.
  3. Specify the command line for the file share.
    1. In the LN Transfer Service configuration console, open the connection node and select the file share.
    2. In the File Share view, specify this information:
      Command
      Specify the appropriate executable and arguments. For details, see the documentation of the PDF reader.
      For example, if you installed Sumatra PDF on the client, browse to the SumatraPDF.exe file to specify the correct path for the executable. For example: C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe
      Specify the command line arguments, containing the UNC path of the printer and the $file placeholder. For example: -print-to \\SRV_DEV2\PNL0123 -exit-when-done $file
    You can now print with the options specified on the command line.