sending data to printer directly

[Abhinav.k]

Hi All,

I would like to connect to a remote printer port (eg lpd at 515) and send data to it(ie. the port) directly .
For this I would like to format data(which could be any file) into a format which lpd can understand. Please could someone give me some pointers on how this can be done in java ?

The printer job interface prints data on a local printer which does not seem to be the solution to by problem :(.

Thanks a lot in advance

Abhi

[JosAH]

Hi All,

I would like to connect to a remote printer port (eg lpd at 515) and send data to it(ie. the port) directly .
For this I would like to format data(which could be any file) into a format which lpd can understand. Please could someone give me some pointers on how this can be done in java ?

The printer job interface prints data on a local printer which does not seem to be the solution to by problem :(.

Thanks a lot in advance

Abhi

Make that remote printer your default printer and use the Desktop class to print any file.

kind regards,

Jos

[Abhinav.k]

Thanks a lot for your response.
That is a possible solution but not what i want.
I want to send data to a remote port (which i think is possible by socket programming).
But the data needs to be formatted in such a way that remote printingservice understands it.

Say print directly to a printer connected at an IP address.

Thanks

[Tolls]

Find out what format the printer needs, then Google for it with Java?

[Abhinav.k]

Thanks everyone for all your help