Hi,
I am using Java print API (javax.print package) to send a bunch of documents for printing. Below is the code section that I am using to print documents through java program. When the document is sent for printing, I see the Job name is created properly in the print spooling queue on windows machine. But, when i go to the actual printer, the job name is different on the printer than what i saw in spooling. Since I am printing 100s of documents in batch, it gets very difficult to identify which document did not print, in case of issues.
I also used the java.awt.print package . The java.awt.print.PrinterJob has a method setJobName(String). When i used this package, I got the name appear properly in both places. But I wish to use javax.print with the document name appear on printer queue.
public void printDocument(File pDoc, PrintService pService, DocFlavor pFlavor)
throws Exception
{
logMessage(true, "Printing Doc::" + pDoc.getAbsolutePath());
FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(pDoc);
// Create the print job
DocPrintJob job = pService.createPrintJob();
//Set print request attributes with file name as job name
PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
aset.add(new JobName(pDoc.getName(), Locale.getDefault()));
//Create the DocAttributeSet with document name
DocAttributeSet dset = new HashDocAttributeSet();
dset.add(new DocumentName(pDoc.getName(), Locale.getDefault()));
//Create a Doc object to be printed and add DocAttributeSet to it.
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(is, pFlavor, dset);
job.print(doc, aset);
is.close();
logMessage(true, "Done printing Doc::" + pDoc.getAbsolutePath());
}
What i see on Windows machine Print queue:
DocumentName Status Owner Page Size
502_79_93858.pdf Printing imgadmin 1
502_80_93859.pdf imgadmin 1
What I see on the job status in actual printer ( and i tried different printers, all of them have same issue):
Job ID Job Name Job Owner Copies
RIP598 dfA2431heidi2 lp 1
RIP599 dfA2431heidi2 lp 1