Quick Start (MTOM): Sending a print stream to a network printer using the web service API

The following C# code example sends a PostScript print stream to a network printer named \\Printer1\Printer. Two copies are sent to the printer. (See Sending Print Streams to Printers .)

???/** 
    * Ensure that you create a .NET project that uses  
    * MS Visual Studio 2008 and version 3.5 of the .NET 
    * framework. This is required to invoke a  
    * LiveCycle service using MTOM. 
    *      
    * For information, see "Invoking LiveCycle using MTOM" in Programming with LiveCycle   
    */ 
using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Text; 
using System.ServiceModel; 
using System.IO; 
 
//A reference to the Output service  
using SendToPrinter.ServiceReference1; 
 
 
namespace SendToPrinter 
{ 
       class Program 
       { 
           static void Main(string[] args) 
           { 
               try 
               { 
                   //Create an OutputServiceClient object 
                   OutputServiceClient outputClient = new OutputServiceClient(); 
                   outputClient.Endpoint.Address = new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress("http://hiro-xp:8080/soap/services/OutputService?blob=mtom"); 
 
                   //Enable BASIC HTTP authentication 
                   BasicHttpBinding b = (BasicHttpBinding)outputClient.Endpoint.Binding; 
                   b.MessageEncoding = WSMessageEncoding.Mtom; 
                   outputClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "administrator"; 
                   outputClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "password"; 
                   b.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Basic; 
                   b.Security.Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly; 
                   b.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 2000000; 
                   b.MaxBufferSize = 2000000; 
                   b.ReaderQuotas.MaxArrayLength = 2000000; 
 
                   //Create a BLOB object that stores form data 
                   BLOB inData = new BLOB(); 
 
                   //Reference XML data to merge with the form design 
                   string inputFileName = "C:\\Adobe\Loan.xml"; 
                   FileStream fs = new FileStream(inputFileName, FileMode.Open); 
 
                   //Get the length of the file stream and create a byte array  
                   int len = (int)fs.Length; 
                   byte[] byteArray = new byte[len]; 
 
                   //Populate the byte array with the contents of the file stream 
                   fs.Read(byteArray, 0, len); 
 
                   //Populate the BLOB object 
                   inData.MTOM = byteArray; 
 
                   //Set print run-time options 
                   PrintedOutputOptionsSpec printOptions = new PrintedOutputOptionsSpec(); 
                   printOptions.copies = 2; 
                   printOptions.lookAhead = 300; 
                   printOptions.recordLevel = 1; 
 
                   //Create empty objects to pass as arguments 
                   //to the generatePDFOutput method 
                   //These objects are populated by the method 
                   BLOB generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc = new BLOB(); 
                   BLOB generatePDFOutputResultDoc = new BLOB(); 
                   OutputResult outResult = new OutputResult(); 
 
                   //Generate a PostScript print stream 
                   outputClient.generatePrintedOutput( 
                       PrintFormat.PostScript, 
                       "Loan.xdp", 
                       "C:\\Adobe", 
                       "C:\\Adobe", 
                       printOptions, 
                       inData, 
                       out generatePDFOutputMetaDataDoc, 
                       out generatePDFOutputResultDoc, 
                       out outResult); 
 
                   //Get the PostScript print stream to send to the printer 
                   BLOB psPrintStream = outResult.generatedDoc; 
 
                   //Specify the print server and the printer name 
                   String printServer = "\\\Printer1"; 
                   String printerName = "\\\Printer1\Printer"; 
 
                   //Send the PostScript print stream to the printer 
                   outputClient.sendToPrinter( 
                       psPrintStream, 
                       PrinterProtocol.SharedPrinter, 
                       printServer, 
                       printerName); 
               } 
               catch (Exception ee) 
               { 
                   Console.WriteLine(ee.Message); 
               } 
           } 
       } 
}