Need a free Broadcast Printing program or command line PDF print software

yukichigai

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I'm trying to configure yet more complex stuff for work. The latest is for the Fax server, which can be set to print all received faxes to a printer automatically. Currently I have it set to print to a PDF writer, which automatically names it based on the date and time (hooray for Ghostscript + Redmon EE) then emails the file to a list of people. (hooray for Blat) The issue is that one of the users would rather the faxes get printed to them automatically, rather than emailed. There are a number of pay programs which offer Broadcast Printing, which would allow me to print to a virtual printer that turns around and prints to a list of printers, but this isn't exactly a high-budget task. In fact, it's a no-budget task. It's free software or nothing. I'm hoping there's some software out there that will do this, or better yet a way I can configure GhostScript to do it.

The other option is to find a way to print the PDF that gets created via command line. The emailing part of the process is all done via a BAT file, so it would be trivial to add another line to the batch. I just need to find a program that will print a PDF via command line, can accept wildcards (*) to do it and won't prompt the user to do anything.