IDM Print API

prabodhaa

Hi All,

I want to print an image that resides in an IDM document type via an external program. To do that I use the Below IDM function with the given payload. This works only for PDF, when I try to print an image it gives an error in IDM JOB Management. Any idea about this?

<a href="https://idm.inforcloudsuite.com/ca/api/distribution/v1/submit">idm.inforcloudsuite.com/.../submit</a>

{

  "input": [

    {

 "type": "pid",

    "pid": "EasyPost_Lables-9-1-LATEST"

}

  ],

"targets": [

    { "type": "print",

  "printerId": "35bbcaf5-50f9-46ac-a205-69710a633142",

  "noOfCopies": 1}

  ],

  "batchId": "PA3",

  "largeJob": false

}

Regards

Prabodha

Christiaan Rentier

PDF is a format which is accepted by most printers, as it contains all details of document and paper format. Office Documents or Pictures need a program to create the print file and send it.
According to the documentation of POST?/distribution?/v1?/submit it is only able to below:

With Document Output it is possible to generate pdf files or Word files from Word templates and distribute to different targets (e-mail, print or idm). It is also possible to merge documents into one pdf or to a Word file if all documents are Word files. For example if generating one document and there is a need to add some shared legal pages at the end (or the beginning) of the document.

Even if Document Output have focused a lot of generating new pdf or Word files, Document Output can be used to just send e-mail or print documents, both existing documents in IDM and document send in to Document Output.

Document Output can also be used for creating and sending e-mails with an HTML body. See Java Doc for more details on how to construct the payload.