Question

I am trying to test printing from a Java program. I currently have

 Socket s = new Socket(printer_ip, 9100);

 PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream());

 pw.println("This is a print test");

 pw.println("\n\n\n");

 pw.flush();

 pw.close();

 s.close();

The program does print the text to the printer but it doesn’t eject the paper.
??????
What else am I missing?

I thought after flush() it would recognize that the input is done and it should end the stream after the close().

Answer 1

PrintWriter is not for printing to a literal printer. It’s for writing characters to an output device (usually a console). You should take a look at this tutorial on Java Printing, since it’s a little more complex than your code sample