Printing seems way too hard...

[Dave D]

Is there an easy way to send a "Hello World" to the printer???
-- Dave

[Wiseguy]

"Dave D" <[e-mail]> tried to express:

Is there an easy way to send a "Hello World" to the printer???

echo "Hello World" | lpr

[Dave D]

I mean using Java!

-- Dave

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"Dave D" <[e-mail]> tried to express:

Is there an easy way to send a "Hello World" to the printer???

echo "Hello World" | lpr

[Silvio Bierman]

"Dave D" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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I mean using Java!

-- Dave

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"Dave D" <[e-mail]> tried to express:

Is there an easy way to send a "Hello World" to the printer???

echo "Hello World" | lpr

Dave,

Printers are controlled as graphical devices which means that simply
printing a piece of text has no direct support. It is very easy to get the
stuff you paint on a graphical component on a printer, but is is also not
trivial to print "hello world" on a graphical component.

Silvio Bierman

[Jeff Rhines]

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("bash -c \"echo 'Hello World' | lpr\"");

;)

"Dave D" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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I mean using Java!

-- Dave

"Wiseguy" <no***@celeron.local> wrote in message
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"Dave D" <[e-mail]> tried to express:

Is there an easy way to send a "Hello World" to the printer???

echo "Hello World" | lpr

[Nathan Zumwalt]

I think Java's printing API pretty much sucks, too. If you're using
version 1.4.1 or above, you can use the PrintService class, which
makes printing certain types of documents easier:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/...ntService.html

Most of the document types had not been implemented the last time I
looked at it, though.

If this doesn't work for you (which didn't in my case), you have to
manually pagenate your content and then draw it on a graphics pane:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/printing/

Good luck.

-Nathan

"Dave D" <[e-mail]> wrote in message news:<p2a3c.214730$uV3.826726@attbi_s51>...

I mean using Java!

-- Dave

"Wiseguy" <no***@celeron.local> wrote in message
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"Dave D" <[e-mail]> tried to express:

Is there an easy way to send a "Hello World" to the printer???

echo "Hello World" | lpr