Looking for some thoughts on an image printing app
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Hey All, Im looking for thoughts/advice.
I have an upcoming project (all .net) that will require the following:
- pulls data once a day from an online service provider based on certain criteria.
- saves data locally for reference and reporting
- the data thats pulled will be used to create gift cards. So after the data is loaded, a process will run to generate "virtual cards" and send them to a network printer.
- Once printed, the system will updated the local data recording a successful or failed print.
My initial thought was to create a windows service to pull the data...but then I couldnt decide how I was going to put a "virtual card" together and get it to print.
Then I considered doing it as a WPF app. I figure that will give me access to the graphics and printing ability.
Maybe neither of these are the right direction....Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Alex
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