Silent printing in electron

Question

I am currently building an electron app. I have a PDF on my local file system which I need to silently print out (on the default printer). I came across the node-printer library

Answer 1

I recently published NPM package to print PDF files from Node.js and Electron. You can send a PDF file to the default printer or to a specific one. Works fine on Windows and Unix-like operating systems: https://github.com/artiebits/pdf-to-printer.

It's easy to install, just (if using yarn):

yarn add pdf-to-printer

or (if using npm):

npm install --save pdf-to-printer

Then, to silently print the file to the default printer you do:

import printer from "pdf-to-printer";

printer
  .print("assets/pdf-sample.pdf")
  .then(console.log)
  .catch(console.error);