Java/Printers question

Evil Phil

How do I get a list of all the network printers available to a Windows 2000 machine, from Java? I'm stumped.

phobos

Phil I know what you are looking for, but unfortunately I don't know the answer either. But here is a link to a pretty good tutorial on how Java handles Printing. Perhaps somewhere in the text it will reveal a sollution to your problem (I didn't read it).

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-print_p.html

HTH

PS: Welcome to IJUG!! ;-)

;-phobos-)

yossarin

...Java does not support printer discovery -- obtaining a list of available printers and their features on a given computer. Available printers can either be local or networked. When using the API, no way exists for obtaining a printer list programmatically; only if the print dialog is displayed can the user select a printer. This is a feature that Sun, which is adhering to the Internet Printing Protocol, will address in the next version of Java (1.4).

the printers seem to have to be setup on the machine in question

more detail@ http://java.sun.com/printing/

or in a lecture
you might have some luck with
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/javax/print/PrintServiceLookup.html in the javax.print package

if you find anything interesting tell us

Evil Phil

Right, the severe limitations placed on me were, it's Java 1.1, it's an applet (running on a corporate intranet). So my solutions is to pass down the printers available to the webserver to the applet using XML. Seems the easiest and the boss likes it. (phew!)