S Chan wrote:I have a Panasonic KX-P1121 Dot Matrix Printer here in the company. I have to write a Java app that creates print jobs for this printer. The problem is, it is a dot matrix printer which I have no experience of, and I believe it is very different from a InkJet and Laser printer in terms of resolution, font, etc...
Anyone has experience with printing with dot matrix printer using Java? Do you know if there are any online articles I can read about this? Anything pitfall I should be aware of?
Well, assuming you have all the
drivers for it, I imagine it would be just like printing to any other printer (although, from the looks of it, setting the page size and/or font may be a bit trickier). This sounds to me like an OS issue, not a Java one.
The same site also has a FAQ page that suggests that it is compliant up to Windows 7 with an Epson LQ driver, but don't ask me how to set it up. All I can say is that once you can actually print to it from a regular program (eg,
Word), I suspect it should print just fine from Java.
However, one might ask why your company is wasting time and money for you to write Java code to print to a printer which is so old that it's probably worth less than an hour of your wages.
Winston