Printer Discovery in Java

[sgk17]

I am printing barcodes from my Java application and I am looking for a way to programmatically select a barcode printer and have it default to that printer instead of defaulting to the windows default printer. So basically, I want my application to scan for a printer with a paper size of 3x1 and have it print to that unless specified otherwise. I've been looking at PrintServiceLookup, but I haven't been able to find any clear examples of how to do what I'm trying to do. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[sedj]

This will look up the printers available to you :

DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE;

PrintService[] services = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flava, null);
for (int j = 0; j < services.length; j++) {
 System.out.println(&quot;[PrintPdf] Available Printers : &quot; +services[j]);
}

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