How do you print any printable file by command-line in Windows 10? Images, PDF, text, word documents and such. This question refers too all files you can print by right-clicking and selecting print from the menu that opens up.
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Commented Jan 5, 2021 at 2:17@Karu, you are right. I misworded my question. I basically wanted a way to make Windows print every document that is dropped in a specific directory. I guessed it should be 'simple' but apparently it is not as common a use case as I thought! I will rephrase my question!
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Commented Jan 8, 2021 at 16:25PowerShell can print any file, using the same action as the Print verb defined for the file-type.
The PowerShell command to use is Start-Process, and the idea is simply to invoke the file itself with the Print verb.
The syntax is very simple:
Start-Process "path-to-file" -Verb print I tested it with a PDF file, and the file printed correctly.
A more elaborate example is to be found in the documentation:
Example 2: Print a text file
This example starts a process that prints the C:\PS-Test\MyFile.txt file.
Start-Process -FilePath "myfile.txt" -WorkingDirectory "C:\PS-Test" -Verb Print 