Problem while Printing through Networkwork Printer using JCIFS

[Michael B Allen]

On 4/30/08, Thiyagu Venkatesan <v.thiyagu.mca at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>  I have a problem while printing through Network Printer using JCIFS
>
>  OS :Windows
>  Printer : HPLaser
>
>  The problem is
>
>  1. I can able to find the available network printer.
>  2. I gotted the SmbFile object for the specific Network Printer.
>  3. When I try to do the following piece of code
>
>  java.io.OutputStream fos=file.getOutputStream();  //where file is object of
>  SmbFile.....i.e shared network printer
>   java.io.PrintStream ps=new java.io.PrintStream(fos);
>   ps.print("God is Great");
>   ps.print("\n");
>   ps.print("ALL THE BEST");
>   ps.close();
>   System.out.println("File Writed");
>
>   Im getting the following error
>
>  The parameter is incorrect.

Hi Thiyagu,

You cannot print to a printer device with raw data like you are doing.
And for that reason, JCIFS does not even open printer devices with the
right parameters. I think it would be trivial to fix the "parameter is
incorrect" error but, again, the printer device will almost never
accept raw data like that and Java does not expose the necessary code
to generate the right input and therefore JCIFS does not support
printing in any form.

If you have any further questions, please send your messages to the
JCIFS mailing list instead. This list is about a CIFS server written
in C whereas JCIFS is a CIFS client written in Java.

Mike

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