Business Central SaaS and Defaulting Printers

In Business Central SaaS, it is not so easy to set a report to print to a default printer as it was on on-premise versions. If one goes to Printer Selections and attempt to look up available printers, you will not see any network or local printers.

In order to do this, you will need to utilize a cloud service such as Microsoft Universal Print. However in this article, we are highlighting a product called "PrintNode".

PrintNode is very easy to install and configure and you may find the pricing very competitive. You can write your own API (they have good documentation) or you can utilize one from various third parties which already talk to Business Central.

Another benefit is it has scale integration to both HID and old COM port scales. PrintNode supports a wide variety of makes and models and will even add your model of scale if it is not on the list.