Question

Is there an easy way in Java to do the following?

1. Connect to a printer (will be a local printer and the only printer connected to the machine).
2. Print pages that are 2 pages in 2 different printer trays.
3. Get the current print queue count, i.e. I have 100 items to print and 34 have been currently printed, the printer queue should now read 66.

Answer 1

Some quick hints:

• print from java: see A Basic Printing Program

• status of printing job: you might be able to get something useful by using a PrintJobListener:

Implementations of this listener
interface should be attached to a
DocPrintJob to monitor the status of
the printer job. These callback
methods may be invoked on the thread
processing the print job, or a service
created notification thread. In either
case the client should not perform
lengthy processing in these callbacks.