Printing on PC / Network Printer

I have a program which develops a set of weekly schedule data and displays it to the user.

I would like to print that same data to the PC printer as a report (once the user clicked an appropriate button).

Is there an example anywhere that shows how to set up the Java necessary to point to the PC printer and then send the data to it as String data or whatever?

I would have to manage headings and footings but that is a program part I understand.

Thanks.

I don't know; the only printing on paper I have ever seen has been in GUIs: try here in the Java Tutorials.

With AWT's version of printing, it should be possible. The only problem is that you can't call printDialog() which sets up the properties. You will have to do that manually. You could try to use printDialog() in a test class to see what you need to setup manually. I know the PrintService is one of them.

You can get the printer (PrintService) using PrinterJob.lookupPrintServices() or some of the methods in javax.print.PrintServiceLookup.

Thanks for your responses.

With the tutorial and the hint, I should be OK.

And should you run into more problems, this thread will be here