3-Heights® PDF Printer - Bulk Print PDF in C#, Java or Batch via Command Line

Developer component – PDF documents are used in many areas of business and need to fulfill differing demands with regard to printing. These include a high throughput rate, high visual fidelity even with complex documents, PDF/A-conform printing, printing on paper or in print datastreams such as PostScript, PCL and XPS. The 3-Heights® PDF Printer fulfills all these requirements as a professional software for automated PDF printing as batch via command line, using watched folders or programmatically using the API, e.g. with C#, Visual Basic, Java or C/C++.

Quality PDF printing

Print complex PDF fast and accurately to devices or PS and PCL streams

Reliable PDF Bulk Printing

Batch print PDF, high volumes at high throughput-rates, e.g. using PowerShell or CMD

Print PDF programmatically

Apply comprehensive printer settings by configuration or programmatically (C#, Java, C++)

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3-Heights® PDF Printer for forms and output management

MM-Agrar’s challenge was to send unstructured documents to output printing and follow-up handling in a structured form. In order to convert PDF documents, the 3-Heights™ PDF Printer was further developed to ensure that the content could be subsequently processed.

Printing bulk PDF Files at one of India’s premier clinical pathology laboratories

A mechanism was needed that could manage the printing of more than 30,000 clinical reports daily. Test results showed that the 3-Heights™ PDF Printer was the most appropriate solution for meeting their requirements.

PDF Printer - Features

Printing on paper or virtual printers and divert printing to a file
Local / remote printing
Select paper format
Select paper tray
Select print quality
Define page sequence
Select printer-specific properties
Color management control
Supports http, https and ftp data streams
Print raster images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, etc.)
Group documents in one print job
Integrate watermarks (text, image)
List printers per host and printer properties (supported paper formats, trays, etc.)
Duplex printing
Select orientation
Print multiple copies
Positioning (centering, scaling, realigning)
Print encrypted documents

Conformance

ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7)
ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A-1)
ISO 19005-2 (PDF/A-2)
ISO 19005-3 (PDF/A-3)
TIFFV6

Supported formats

Input Formats

PDF 1.0 to 1.7
PDF 2.0
PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2, PDF/A-3
BMP
GIF
JBIG2
JPEG
JPEG2000, JPEG-LS
PBM
PNG
TIFF

Output Formats

Print spool formats, such as PostScript, PCL5, PCL6, AFP

Sample code

MANUALS

API | Shell | Service

Areas of use - print PDF documents

Printing from within applications

The PDF Printer component offers a flexible print function for applications for creating and processing PDF and image documents.

Batch and mass printing

The PDF Printer can be used in companies of any size as a central printing service for PDF documents and image documents. It is particularly suitable for personalized printing, ticket printing and generating paper copies from electronic archives.

Other areas of use

Creation of printer data streams for COLD applications
Receipt printer in subsidiaries
Web-based printing
Printing as the last step of a report generator

Print a PDF document

Print all or selected pages of a PDF or TIFF document to a specified printer.

More samples

C# sample:

// Create the printer object
using (Printer printer = new Printer())
{
    // Print input file to one specified printer
    if (!printer.PrintFile(inputPath, printerName, "", firstPage, lastPage))
        throw new Exception(String.Format("Printing input file {0} failed. " + 
            "{1} (ErrorCode: 0x{2:x}).", inputPath, printer.ErrorMessage, printer.ErrorCode));
}

C# sample:

Java sample:

// Create the printer
printer = new Printer();

// Print input file to one specified printer
if (!printer.printFile(inputPath, printerName, "", firstPage, lastPage))
    throw new IOException(String.format("Printing input file %s failed. %s (ErrorCode: 0x%08x).",
        inputPath, printer.getErrorMessage(), printer.getErrorCode()));

Java sample:

C sample:

// Create the printer object
pPrinter = PDFPrnCreateObject();

// Print input file to one specified printer
if (!PDFPrnPrintFile(pPrinter, szInputPath, szPrinterName, _T(""), iFirstPage, iLastPage))
{
    _tprintf(_T("Printing input file %s failed. %s (ErrorCode: 0x%08x).\n"), szInputPath, PDFPrnGetErrorMessage(pPrinter), PDFPrnGetErrorCode(pPrinter));
    iReturnValue = 1;
}

C sample:

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