Jasperprint Object size increasing at the time of print

[Kaura Ashwani]

Hi,
We are using jasperreport 1.2.7 version for generation & print of reports.
Whenever we print the reports the size of object in print queue increase 10
times the acutal estimated size of the data.
We tried using PDFExporter to export to pdf and then print, this time size
is almost of the same .
Need to know what could be the problem while using JRPrintServiceExporter .

Code base for building jasperprint from datasource

JRDataSource dataSource = new JRTableModelDataSource(gridModel);
InputStream io = new ClassLoaderInputStream(ReportConstants.PACKAGEPATH
+jrxmlName);
JasperReport jasperReport = (JasperReport)JRLoader.loadObject(io);
//Fill and get print object
JasperPrint jasperPrint = JasperFillManager.fillReport(jasperReport,
parameter,
                             dataSource);

Following for print jasperprint using exporter.

PrinterName name = new PrinterName(printerName.toLowerCase(), null);
final PrintRequestAttributeSet printRequestAttributeSet = new
HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
printRequestAttributeSet.add(MEDIASIZENAME);
if(numberOfCopies>0){
printRequestAttributeSet.add(new Copies(numberOfCopies));           }
final JRPrintServiceExporter exporter = new JRPrintServiceExporter();
final PrintServiceAttributeSet printServiceAttributeSet = new
HashPrintServiceAttributeSet();
printServiceAttributeSet.add(name);
exporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.JASPER_PRINT, jasperPrint);
exporter.setParameter
(JRPrintServiceExporterParameter.PRINT_REQUEST_ATTRIBUTE_SET,
printRequestAttributeSet);
exporter.setParameter
(JRPrintServiceExporterParameter.PRINT_SERVICE_ATTRIBUTE_SET,
printServiceAttributeSet);
exporter.setParameter(JRPrintServiceExporterParameter.DISPLAY_PAGE_DIALOG,
Boolean.FALSE);
exporter.setParameter(JRPrintServiceExporterParameter.DISPLAY_PRINT_DIALOG,
Boolean.FALSE);
exporter.exportReport();

Need Help

[Pawel Nowacki]

It can be fonts/coding problem. We had similar issue with pdf docs which were generated using FOP (and also Jasper) and beeing sent to net printer and over the network.
Some of documents generated had 16MB! So sending document to print from several desktops last forever.
It was because we were using fonts not embedded. When you insert even one italic character your document will carry whole set of fonts inside it . National characters also increase
weight of pdf - that character it is treated as bitmap. What we did was to simplify documents layout and save it each time locally - not having to send it over network.