Any idea how I can print a barcode label in a desktop app without downloading a PDF, the idea is to run a process, get the url image from an API, place the image in the screen and then send it to the printer without any button or user action.
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Thanks for reaching out! I've moved this to feature requests since we don't have a natively supported way of directly printing from Retool. We are tracking requests to allow apps to access the browser's .print() api, so I'll let you know if that ships
There is a related discussion about printing from Retool apps here.
We have utils.downloadFile() and utils.downloadPage(), which makes it possible to download content. Users can then print the content using their local OS.
Alternatively, you can create a custom component which calls the browser's print() API. You can pass the print content into the custom component for printing, although this has limitations in terms of what you can do with formatting (since CORS blocks the creation of iframes inside of a custom component
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+1 for this
+1 for this
You can write a small app with REST API which you can call from Retool app. Long time ago I did it once for my old Java app, it worked without issues.
Hi,
We're using PrintNode to print form Retool. It's a service running on a local server/pc and you can send prontjobs to it through REST API. We're using it in our warehouse for labels with Zebra printers and with laserjets for freight docs. Quite cheap also.
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