[PrintService] Weird and different behavior on my Mac and my PC

Question

Hi
I've been struggling with a printing problem for now more than 20 hours and i decided to go back to the beginning.
So first, before trying to print any random String, i want to check what can print my printers connected.
Since i was having problems, i am trying both on my Mac and my PC.
Both are connected to my network using Ethernet.
Here is my code
DocFlavor[] triedFlavors = {
                    DocFlavor.STRING.TEXT_PLAIN,
                    DocFlavor.STRING.TEXT_HTML,
                    DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE,
                    DocFlavor.STRING.INPUT_STREAM.TEXT_PLAIN_UTF_8,
                    DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.TEXT_PLAIN_UTF_8,
                    DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.STRING.TEXT_PLAIN
            InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(test.getBytes());
            BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
            PrintRequestAttributeSet printRequestAttributeSet = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
            printRequestAttributeSet.add(new Copies(1));
            printRequestAttributeSet.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
            DocAttributeSet docAttributeSet = new HashDocAttributeSet();
            //docAttributeSet.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
            for (Attribute attribute : docAttributeSet.toArray()) {
                System.out.println("Attribute Set:" + attribute.toString());
            for (DocFlavor flavor : triedFlavors) {
                System.out.println("Flavor chosen:" + flavor.toString());
                PrintService[] services = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, docAttributeSet);
                System.out.println("Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : " + services.length);
                for (PrintService service : services) {
                    System.out.println("Available: " + service.toString());
            }  I get with my PC:
Flavor chosen:text/plain; charset="utf-16"; class="java.lang.String"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 0
    Flavor chosen:text/html; charset="utf-16"; class="java.lang.String"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 0
    Flavor chosen:application/octet-stream; class="java.io.InputStream"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 7
    Available: Win32 Printer : \\CATE\IMP_CATE
    Available: Win32 Printer : \\SRV-PRINT\4-XCOULEUR
    Available: Win32 Printer : \\SRV-PRINT\5-X-Couleur
    Available: Win32 Printer : \\SRV-PRINT\5-XCOULEUR
    Available: Win32 Printer : \\Srv-print\6-OPERA
    Available: Win32 Printer : \\Srv-print\6-RICOH
    Available: Win32 Printer : Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
    Flavor chosen:text/plain; charset="utf-8"; class="java.io.InputStream"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 0
    Flavor chosen:text/plain; charset="utf-8"; class="java.io.InputStream"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 0
    Flavor chosen:text/plain; charset="utf-16"; class="java.lang.String"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 0  And with my Mac:
      Flavor chosen:text/plain; charset="utf-16"; class="java.lang.String"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 2
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-OPERA
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-RICOH
    Flavor chosen:text/html; charset="utf-16"; class="java.lang.String"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 0
    Flavor chosen:application/octet-stream; class="java.io.InputStream"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 2
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-OPERA
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-RICOH
    Flavor chosen:text/plain; charset="utf-8"; class="java.io.InputStream"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 2
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-OPERA
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-RICOH
    Flavor chosen:text/plain; charset="utf-8"; class="java.io.InputStream"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 2
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-OPERA
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-RICOH
    Flavor chosen:text/plain; charset="utf-16"; class="java.lang.String"
    Available printers for this flavor and this attribute set : 2
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-OPERA
    Available: IPP Printer : 6-RICOH  As you can notice, i get totally different results between my PC and my MAC.
As a matter of fact, when i try to get all the flavors available on 6-OPERA, i get more or less 12 falvors available (when i try the test code from my PC) and 150 when i try the test code from my MAC.... i dont understand!!!
I want to get more flavors available for 6-OPERA on my PC!!!
so please help me understand this little problem
Edited by: nicdo77 on Jan 15, 2008 12:13 PM

Answer 1

Probably the easiest way to use an iPod on both Mac and Windows computers is to format the iPod (using iPod Updater) using the PC. This will force your iPod to use the Windows file system (FAT32) which both the Mac and PC can read from and write to without the help of additional software. Of course then all your software updates for the iPod will have to be done on Windows.

If you need to use a Mac (HFS+) formatted iPod on a Windows PC, you'll need to install some 3rd party software such as XPlay 2.0 (which you can get from MediaFour Software). This will enable your Windows PC to read a Mac-formatted iPod.