Printing Report Programatically

[Muhammad]

Hi,

I am trying to print my report programatically using a browser and it prints fine on my development machine but when I try to print the same report on a server my browser gets hanged. I tried on Internet Explorer 8, Firefox and on Google chrome but the problem still persists.

Private Sub PrintReport(ByVal report As Telerik.Reporting.Report)

       Dim printerSettings As New System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings

       ' The standard print controller comes with no UI
       Dim standardPrintController As New System.Drawing.Printing.StandardPrintController

       ' Print the report using the custom print controller
       Dim reportProcessor As New Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportProcessor
       reportProcessor.PrintController = standardPrintController
       reportProcessor.PrintReport(report, printerSettings)


   End Sub

[Steve]

Hi Muhammad,

Using server-side code for printing the report would end up printing the report on the server where the application is being run on and this is expected behavior. For web apps/sites where the print should happen on the client, you should use the client-side printing mechanism:

   <telerik:ReportViewer runat="server" id="ReportViewer1"></telerik:ReportViewer>                      
    <script type="text/javascript">
        <%=ReportViewer1.ClientID %>.PrintReport();
    </script>      

Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Muthuraj]

Hi Steve,

I am facing an issue at the time of print report called, The issue is delayed to excecute PrintReport as it is taking approx 1.3 Mins which is huge time. Could you please have a look on below code and suggest the solution to achive faster way to print?

 public static bool Print(Telerik.Reporting.IReportDocument document, string printerName, short copies)
        {
            ReportProcessor processor = new ReportProcessor();

            System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController controller = new System.Drawing.Printing.StandardPrintController();

            processor.PrintController = controller;
            
            System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings printerSettings = new System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings();

            printerSettings.PrinterName = printerName;
            printerSettings.Copies = copies;
            printerSettings.Collate = false;
var repSource = (Telerik.Reporting.InstanceReportSource)document.Reports.FirstOrDefault();

processor.PrintReport(repSource, printerSettings);
return true;
        }

Realy appreciate your inputs here and looking hear from you soon. Thanks!

Regards!
Muthu