Command line photo printing in Windows 7

Question

I need to print a photo (.jpg) from the command line in Windows 7. I have tried using lpr to no success, and found methods for Windows XP like the following:

rundll32 shimgvw.dll ImageView_PrintTo /pt myPhoto.jpg "myPrinter"

This doesn't work (not surprising), and my hours of Googling has turned up nothing else. I'm trying to find a stock way to do this on any Windows 7 machine without needing to install or set anything up. Does there exist such a command?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '13 at 14:24

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Maybe reformatting the command and adding some absolute paths would help? The following worked for me:

rundll32 C:\WINDOWS\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_PrintTo "c:\mydir\my.bmp" "Fictional HP Printer"

answered Dec 05 '13 at 14:24

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Verifying this works on Windows7. The OP is missing a comma. – Eternal21 Aug 20 '14 at 17:15
it also works without the comma (tested on windows 10). It needs to have absolute paths – Magnetic_dud Jun 18 '20 at 07:29

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 10:16

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Try via MS Paint

mspaint /pt <FILE> <PRINTER>

Works like a charme for me.

answered Nov 11 '13 at 10:16

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Works on both Windows 7 and Windows 8. – SharpAffair Apr 23 '14 at 13:32
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Is there a way to get this to print in portrait orientation? – DarkWiiPlayer Apr 05 '18 at 13:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 04 '12 at 03:56

Did you look here?

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/thread/87e942da-faec-48e1-b339-7ba3da7c9134

The provided rundll32 command line looks slightly different from yours. Alternatively, the page implies that mspaint.exe has a command-line option to print.

Note that I haven't tried any of these, though...

Command line photo printing in Windows 7

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