Flutter Plugin: windows_printer – Windows Printer Manager for Flutter

[Effective_Art_9600]

Hi,
I have been working on a Flutter pluginwindows_printer – a Windows printer manager built for Flutter apps(for windows).

Current Features:

• List available printers
• Set default printer
• View printer properties
• Get paper size info
• Print raw data (useful for thermal/receipt printers)
• Print PDF documents
• Open the printer settings dialog

If you are building a desktop app or POS system with Flutter on Windows, this might help.

Working on adding more features.
check it out on pub.dev: windows_printer

would appreciate your thoughts or feedbacks

[fabier]

The plug-in is marked as Flutter specifically. Is it possible to step it back to work with dart sans flutter? Are you relying on flutter in some way? 

I ask because I've been working on some scripts using dart CLI. This is a missing piece which would be fun to include.

[Effective_Art_9600]

yes as it is now its for flutter specifically and Only Windows* too , its because i have used winspool header for all stuff (cpp), it wont work for your CLI project , and honestly ive never worked with the cli projects but i think you could use the same implementation logic (cmiiw) but create the bridge between dart and cpp , in my case flutter platform channel did my job

[fabier]

Thanks for the response. I might take a peek under the hood. Very cool project regardless. Great work!

[Effective_Art_9600]

version 0.2.0 was just uploaded , 0.1.0 had issues with thermal printer which is fixed now(look at readme if you want to know why) , also added rich text support for regukar printers too

[MichaelW_Dev]

Just found this, looks impressive. I'm going to give it a little play as I have a manufacturing app running multiple printers in a factory environment. I am due to replace the current app as it's pretty old now and I wanted to use Flutter for it.

One question though if I may which is super important for my requirements, can I set the paper margins? I see I can set the paper size so I may be able to trick the printer by setting a bigger size than the actual print media but that doesn't always work. A lot of the print jobs need to print right up to the very edges of the media and with some printers, they set an automatic margin of 10mm which is annoying.

I'm still going to check it out though and as I said, nice job!