Print SSRS Report Automatically

Question

I am fairly new to using SSRS and I would like to create a report that automatically prints to a specified printer when the report is generated.

I found this question on SO and it mentions writing code in the Business Intelligence Development Studio that can "fire off" a print job. How might I do that?

EDIT:

Forgot the URL of the thread in question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480723/automatically-print-ssrs-report

Answer 1

As TFD commented google will get you lots of responses.

From my experience there are 2 ways to "automatically" print a report.

• If it will be on demand from your code then you will have to code the rendering and send that to the printer yourself. There are lots of ways/variations to do this, again google will give you more specifics.
• You can also write a custom extension to do the printing. There are samples of this in the SSRS sample code as part of the SSRS server install. This would do the printing "server side".