I am currently implementing some printing functionality for our app and
found a number of limitations with javax.print.PrintService.

For example:
- the attributes PrinterMakeAndModel and PrinterInfo never seem to
provide any information
- there is no ServiceUIFactory available for any of my print services
- setting Chromaticity to monochrome still produces color prints on our
color laser printer (and I can select color mode for our black and white
printer)
- the PrintQuality attribute never seems to be supported

All these limitations are not really severe, but since I have to
implement our own print dialog amyway, I am wondering if they will be
fixed in future or if they are simply a result of the way java accesses
the OS print services. In the last case I could simply omit some options
in our print dialog.

My two simple questions are: Do these limitations only exist on some
systems? And is there are chance that (some of) the limitations of
PrintService will be fixed in Java 7 or 8?


Thanks

Jan

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