Printable Intermittently Failing to Print Completely

Question

I have an application that uses the Printable interface to print 2 or 3 PrinterJobs upon an ActionEvent. The PrinterJobs are printed on 2 different networked printers--1 PrinterJob to one networked printer and 1 or 2 PrinterJobs to a different networked printer. The application is running on Windows XP and the printers are spooled with the standard Windows spooler. The JRE is 1.5.
The ActionListener (in outline) looks like this:
pjob1 = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
pjob1.setPrintService(printServiceA);
pjob1.setPrintable(printableOne);
pjob1.print();
pjob2 = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
pjob2.setPrintService(printServiceB);
pjob2.setPrintable(printableOne);
pjob2.print();
if (condition)
{  pjob3 = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
   pjob3.setPrintService(printServiceB);
   pjob3.setPrintable(printableTwo);
   pjob3.print();
}So pjob1 and pjob2 use the same Printable on different printers and pjob3 uses a different Printable on the same printer as pjob2. pjob1, pjob2, and pjob3 are class variables of the main class and the ActionListener is a method of the main class.
My problem is that intermittently, the second PrinterJob (pjob2) fails to print everything that it should. I know that the problem is not with the printers because I've set the spooler to save the spooled jobs and the spooled output is incomplete. The amount of non-printed data varies but it always appears to begin printing and then stop at some point in the order in which the print() method prints it. This leads me to believe that there is some sort of race condition.
Has anyone seen anything like this or have any suggestions as to how to track this down?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Doc,
Based on your description, I understand that you want to set DC as printer server. However, it seems that you
worry about it. On current situation, please refer to following thread, then check if can help you.
Print
server On a Domain Controller
Meanwhile, please also refer to following articles.
Print and Document Services Overview
What's New in Print and Document Services
in Windows Server
à
We still have the same printer issue since deployment.
By the way, I noticed that a same printer issue occurred in the old print server and new print server. Would
you please let me know more details of it? Any error message or relevant event?
If anything I misunderstand, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu