Does anyone know if there is any major commercial need for a program that prints a large amount of various documents (JPEG, Gif, Doc, etc.) at once?
Ie – Sending all the files to the printer without having to manually open, hit print, and close

I know of some workers that have the task of manually printing hundreds of files.
Is anyone else’s work like such?

Basically wrote an app that automates this process and wonder if it could have any commercial success (my assumption is that there is already something like this or most programs have the feature built-in)

Any good application publishers to submit to?

Thanks guys.

Alex

Does anyone know if there is any major commercial need for a program that prints a large amount of various documents (JPEG, Gif, Doc, etc.) at once?
Ie – Sending all the files to the printer without having to manually open, hit print, and close

I know of some workers that have the task of manually printing hundreds of files.
Is anyone else’s work like such?

Basically wrote an app that automates this process and wonder if it could have any commercial success (my assumption is that there is already something like this or most programs have the feature built-in)

Any good application publishers to submit to?

Thanks guys.

Alex


I might be able to make you one for 20$ :-D

Well if you wrote it you've got 50% of the work done. Just put up a website and see what happens.

I recommend that you provide an interface to it, either a cmd-line or a COM object that can be called via script.

BTW, doesnt Windows ship with Windows Scripting host (wscript and cscript) which are intended for these kinds of tasks?

grimreaper

Yep, already has very simple and easy to use interface. (Built entirely in MMF)

Just wanted to get a few more opinions before I tried to release it.

Thanks.

Alex

Technically selecting all the files in explorer and using right-click:print will do the task. It just won't do it very well.

But that only works for Image files correct?

But that only works for Image files correct?

Nope. Acrobat PDF, Word files etc. all work. The applications open/print/close for each file right-clicked in Explorer.

-Luke

Any application which provides a handler for the print verb can provide printing capabilities this way, and most document-oriented ones do. The only downside is that the process is rarely very flexible.