Print without preview - ASP.Net/Silverlight

Question

I have a asp.net application where I'm trying to load few documents into memory and print it. I learned that I can't use PrintDialog in a web app and the only way is to print using javascript by writing the content into a (hidden) iFrame.

My question is how can Silverlight help me with this? Is it possible to show print dialog and get printer settings and print without a preview by sending the files directly to the printer? How hard it is achieve to using SL?

Thank you.

Answer 1

I just watched a video about printing with Silverlight . It seems quite easy, but I think it has to send the print job as image, so it might be quite slow.