Print on a Network Printer which is not available to System on which the code runs

[jigsmshah]

i am working on a project (windows service using VB.Net and C#) which gets the check details and check images from the database and prints the check to a printer.

Printer name is configured in a XML file.

Printer names are names which are available to the system on which the service is running.

Printers used are network printers and are added using Printers and Faxes -> Add a printer.

To validate the printer I am using the following code below:

_printDocument. PrinterSettings .PrinterName = printerName

if(_printDocume nt.PrinterSetti ngs.IsValid)

_printDocument. Print()



All the above things works fine.



Now the new requirement is that checks need to be printed on a network printer that is not added to the system or

not available to the system on which the service is running,but the printer is available in the network.

I did research on the internet ,but failed to get any information on this new requirement.

My question is

First Option:

Is it possible to print on a network printer which is not added to the system on which the service runs.

using .Net or Win32API?

Second Option:

I created a .prn file and tried to copy to the UNC path of the network printer but that does not work.Is there any location

where we can programmaticall y copy .prn files and the printer picks it from there?



Thanking you in advance

Regards

Jignesh