I would like to have a way of making the printer get its paper from a specific paper tray. Also, I wonder how I'm supposed to
 print a 500 page report when 1 page creates a temporary file of 15 Mb...

I was shocked to see that this was not thought of in JDK1.2. Features like that are crucial for business applications.
PLEASE tell me that the printing team has been reinforced with some people with experience in real-world printing
 problems, and that we'll see a better API SOON!
Sorry about this outburst, but I was told that JDK1.2 would solve our printing problems, and I can't say that it is much 
of an improvement over JDK1.1.
(Review ID: 54198)
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I have been studying the new printing API of the JDK 1.3 beta.
There are a lot of new features but one I still keep missing:
Even though there are various new options also for native printing dialogs and so on... Selecting from a common set of paper TRAYS still seems impossible without a dialog first.

Printing without the dialog became possible with Java 2
With JDK 1.3 you can print both sides of a page and lots of
other things. Will it be possible to also select the paper
tray before printing without confirming a dialog or is that
a few more JDK's away.
(Review ID: 94475)
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Hi!

I am glad to see that the printing API appears to be greatly enhanced in JDK 1.3, but I missed one thing:

In all our applications we need to direct the printing to different paper trays on the printers.
Our customers have different paper-types in the different paper-trays of their laser-printers.

I saw no possibility to set which paper-tray the printing is supposed to go to in the proposed API.
Did I overlook something? If not, will you add this functionality in JDK 1.3?

Thanks,

Nils C. Hertzberg
(Review ID: 95418)
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All I was told by Sun developers there would be so far is using native functions to change the tray before printing in Java.
(Review ID: 94475)
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Presumably user is looking for a "silent"or programmatic way to do this .
This maybe better implemented as part of a printer driver API.
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the new printing apis in merlin (1.4) allow discovery of aupported media
and media sources (trays) and specificationof these in print requests.
discovery of these is highly platform specific since it relies on platform
services so these may not always be available.

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Also it would be nice "silent" select of printer. we have server
application which needs to print reports to several printers ..