Initiating report printing from a web page to a network printer

I want to print to a user's network printer from a servlet. My development environment is a single machine so everything works just fine. The production environment is 3-tiered -- database server, web server and client. In the 3-tiered configuration the PrintReport class executes on the web server and seems to get lost. How can I print in the 3-tiered environment and still give the user the chance to change the printer or the print attributes? My java code currently displays a print dialog box to the user in the 1-tier environment.

I don't think you're going to be able to do that from a web page. Imagine if you visited my site and I decided that your printer should print every image in my "Special Donkey Pictures" directory...
You might be able to create an applet that you can feed the webpage into - into a JTextPane for instance, implement Printable and print from that. I say that without any real knowledge of Applets or what sort of security/signing issues there might be with that.

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