I am doing a project which will finally print a pdf file or doc file to the printer as “another user”. But now I stuck on how to print document in Java.
I know there is a pdf renderer in java, developed by sun, which can convert pdf to pcl file.
After the conversion, I want to print the pcl file to remote printers.
My previous way is “copy /b filename \printserver\printer”, however, this approach actually is too lowlevel and cannot even display the document name, and sometime is not working.
I wonder is there a better approach of java to send the PCL file to print server, where the server can actually detect the document name and host name(which I want to specify in the program, not the original one). This one is really driving me crazy…Thanks!
Have you looked into java print service?
You can find some useful code here
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/jps/spec/printing.fm2.html