Multiple Drivers

• Introduction
• Switching on the fly

#Introduction

If you have multiple print drivers you need to print with, you can easily do so by calling driver('driver_name') on the Printing facade. This could be useful if you print receipts through PrintNode and then regular documents through CUPS or some other custom driver you have installed.

#Switching on the fly

By default, the package only supports using one driver at a time, but you can switch to using a different driver at runtime if you need to. Let's say you need to print most documents using PrintNode, but for one specific document, you need to use CUPS. You can do so like this:

// Send a job to printnode
Printing::newPrintTask()
    ->printer($printerId)
    ->file('file_path.pdf')
    ->send();

// Send a job to the cups server
Printing::driver('cups')
    ->newPrintTask()
    ->printer($cupsPrinterId)
    ->file('file_path.pdf')
    ->send();