Printing documents on client instead of server

Question

Hello,
I am using a piece of code which prints a document when a user requests a page on its browser. The only problem is that the document is printed on the server instead of the clients default printer. The printer on the current client (the testing machine in my case) is a network printer.
Here is the code
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.text.*;
public class PrintDocument implements Printable
     private static final String mText =
     "Print this"
     + "And this as well ";
     private static final AttributedString mStyledText = new AttributedString(mText);
     static public void main()
          PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
          Book book = new Book();
          book.append(new PrintDocument(), new PageFormat());
          printerJob.setPageable(book);
          boolean doPrint = printerJob.printDialog();
          if (doPrint)
               try
                    printerJob.print();
               catch (PrinterException exception)
                    System.err.println("Printing error: " + exception);
     public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat format, int pageIndex)
          Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
          g2d.translate(format.getImageableX(), format.getImageableY());
          g2d.setPaint(Color.black);
          Point2D.Float pen = new Point2D.Float();
          AttributedCharacterIterator charIterator = mStyledText.getIterator();
          LineBreakMeasurer measurer = new LineBreakMeasurer(charIterator, g2d.getFontRenderContext());
          float wrappingWidth = (float) format.getImageableWidth();
          while (measurer.getPosition() < charIterator.getEndIndex())
               TextLayout layout = measurer.nextLayout(wrappingWidth);
               pen.y += layout.getAscent();
               float dx = layout.isLeftToRight()? 0 : (wrappingWidth - layout.getAdvance());
               layout.draw(g2d, pen.x + dx, pen.y);
               pen.y += layout.getDescent() + layout.getLeading();
          return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
}As you can see, I have not set any properties of the document to be printed on the clients default printer. How do I do this? Note that my server has NO printer installed. Do I need to share the clients default printer? Etc
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I can't think of any way to make the client side print
something just from your server side request.If there was a way for the server to automatically print something on the client's printer, you can be sure that those websites that spam you with popup windows would already be doing it. But they aren't, which leads me to believe it can't be done.
Maybe you can put a the template in a HTML file, put a
reference to it in a teeny-weeny FRAME or IFRAME in
the HTML of your JSP code. The HTML file with the
"template" could have that "window.print()"-thing in
the "onLoad"-event handler of the body-tag of that
document (or what ever, I'm not a JS expert)The solution is going to be something that is done at the client side, and that would be something like a button that executes some Javascript code, as you say. I'm not a JS expert either.