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I do not know anything about BI Publisher, but I assume it has an option to send the output to a printer. Simply Googling for it: Configure a Printer in Oracle Analytics Publisher Browsers cannot send output directly to a printer. There is always some user interaction before sending the output to a printer.
Small print: there is a non-standard way to send some output directly to the printer from a browser. However, it involves hacking the Windows registry (I only know this trick for Windows): Create a PDF file with extension .pdfp. Windows doesn't know this extension, so it will create a new registry entry for pdfp. Change the Open behaviour in the registry (find it somewhere in \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE). Instead of opening the file, print it. In my case, I use Sumatra pdf:
"C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Local\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" -print-to-default "%1" %*
Of course, this command will change per configuration.
If the print engine was NOT Bi Publisher, I'd recommend Apex Office Print. They have functionality to print to a network printer included with the product. Since this is a Bi Publisher question, you MIGHT get a better response if you posted it to that products support forum.. Thank you! Tony Miller White Rock, NM