sendPrintFromScreen() works a charm if you have a post script printer. However, I am having problems getting it to work with "text/plain". You might ask why I wanna do that, and the answer is that my current customer has half a dozen workhorse dot matrix printers that spit out a hundred pages a minute for about 5cents.
So, I want to utilize these for some ordinary printing jobs like reprinting invoices for internal use and the like. So, I modified sendPrintFromScreen() so that if it doesn't find a postscript printer with the printer name that was passed in, it changes the contentType to "text/plain" and checks again. It always finds this one if I have not picked a postscript printer. The problem is that the renderer does not seem to put formfeeds at the end. This is not a problem when you only print one, but when you are massPrinting, everything gets pretty hosed. My test setup is printing three invoices from : https://localhost:8443/ordermgr/control/findorders?printerName=OKIData9721&s erviceName=/ordermgr/control/massPrintOrders?hideFields=YpartyId=NOAA%20NWAF C&hideFields=YpartyId=NOAA%20NWAFC&screenLocation=component://order/widget/o rdermgr/OrderPrintForms.xml#OrderPDF Anyone have any idea how to encourage the fop guy to put a ff after the document is finished in plain text? I am fairly sure this is the problem because I can use DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE; printer = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService(); // Create the print job DocPrintJob job = printer.createPrintJob(); Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(myDoc, flavor, null); // Print it job.print(doc, null); And send in a FF terminated string and it all works fine. I would just prefer to use that FOP renderer so I don't have to hand code a bunch of stuff. Skip
