command line tool for print picture?

Question

My program needs to print a curve; my solution is changing the curve into a picture, and this picture file (xxx.png) can be printed by using the default windows picture printing tool (right click the mouse on top of the file, and select print).

but I don't want user do this job manually, I need a command line tool to do this:

printPicture xxx.png

How can I do this in command line?

score 14 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 19 '20 at 13:26

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This link had a simpler solution:

mspaint /pt [image filename]

edited Feb 19 '20 at 13:26

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thank you, save my life. this is very cool, i coding it on my python django app: cmd = f'mspaint /pt {filename}' p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True) p.wait() – rogers.wang Apr 20 '20 at 15:06
Unfortunately, it does not seem that mspaint allows you to set default printing settings yourself. – knowledge_seeker Jun 28 '21 at 19:27

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 21 '10 at 12:00

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I finally found out!

use windows image and fax viewer.

rundll32    shimgvw.dll    ImageView_PrintTo /pt   xxx.png   "printer name"

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Careful, you can't give any options with this solution, and you can't change default options (picture will be fitted to A4). – Jerry Nov 21 '17 at 13:21
how to print in 8mm paper ? – Criss Sep 01 '19 at 23:45
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No clue why, but this doesn't work for me on a Windows 10 desktop. Neither does the `print` command (with a txt file). I had to resort to mspaint... which is acceptable I guess – aross Feb 19 '20 at 13:25

score 11 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 14 '20 at 22:12

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IrfanView is able to do this. Here's a list of command line options for this application.

The following should work:

i_view32 xxx.png /print

If you want to print to a printer other than the default printer, specify the printer name:

i_view32 xxx.png /print="PrinterName"

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answered Feb 20 '10 at 05:15

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You asked for a command line tool... that's what I've posted. How you use this in your application is up to you - you're the developer! – Charlie Salts Feb 20 '10 at 05:44
This rocks ! irfanView keep your last printing options. When you call it to print a picture through command line, it uses last printing options. It's perfect. – Jerry Nov 21 '17 at 13:32
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Great!!! It works perfect. First we need to install inrfan_view from here http://www.irfanview.com/ and then run this command in windows **`& 'C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view64.exe' .\test_image.png /print`** – Sunny Chaudhari Feb 02 '19 at 05:46

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 05 '13 at 14:31

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

answered Dec 05 '13 at 14:31

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 28 '16 at 04:16

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

This prints an image file (.png in my case) to a specified printer WITHOUT a dialog box popping up. Also... works without elevated command prompt privileges.

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score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 20 '10 at 05:39

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You can call ShellExecute from your program with print operation:

ShellExecute(NULL,"print","c:\\test.png",NULL,NULL,SW_HIDE);

answered Feb 20 '10 at 05:39

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"print" is only for TXT files – MaxV Feb 01 '17 at 11:41

command line tool for print picture?

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