Strange behavior of Java Printing API

[Karthikeyan Chandrasekaran]

Hi All,

I have just tried the following code and the results are different. Can anyone tell why this happens?

import javax.print.*;

public class Printer {


public static void main(String[] args) {

DocFlavor[] flavors = {DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PRINTABLE};

PrintService[] pServices =
PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavors[0], null);


System.out.println("===PrintService===");

for(int i=0; i< pServices.length; i++) {

System.out.println(pServices.getName());

}

pServices = PrintServiceLookup.lookupMultiDocPrintServices(flavors, null);


System.out.println("===MultiDoc PrintService===");

for(int i=0; i< pServices.length; i++) {

System.out.println(pServices.getName());
}

}

}


Here lookupPrintServices() method returns all the printers installed in my machine, but lookupMultiDocPrintServices() returns empty.

I am using Java 5 in Windows 2000.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Have look at the two methods in the API. the one about MultPrint will only print if your printer supports all the flavours given.

[Karthikeyan Chandrasekaran]

I have passed an array of flavors to lookupMultiDocPrintServices() method, but the array contains only one element.(Please look at my code). So the result should be same for lookupMultiDocPrintServices() and lookupPrintServices(). But still lookupMultiDocPrintServices() returns empty.