Problem in setting the printer

Question

Hi,
I am new to swings and am trying to print my table using PrintJob class. In this I will get the printer name. So I have to set that as a printer to do the job.
I am able to print by selecting the printer in printDialog but I want to give my printer and I dont want that printDialog box. Plz tell me solution.
As from the docs, i came to know that if we remove printdialog(), it wont show you the dialog box, but its talking the default one, my case is it should take the user input.
Here is my code and working fine.
public void print(String printer){
// In this I have to set printer as the printer to do the job by suppresing the print dialog.
PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
PageFormat pf = pj.defaultPage();
pj.setPrintable(this, pf);
if (pj.printDialog()) {
try {
     pj.print();
} catch (Exception e) {
Thanks in advance..
Raj.

Answer 1

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.print.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Print_Demo extends JFrame {
    public Print_Demo() {
        initComponents();
    private void initComponents() {
        toolBar = new JToolBar();
        printB = new JButton();
        printerField = new JTextField("Win32 Printer : HP DeskJet 610C");
        panel = new MyPanel();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setTitle("Print Demo");
        toolBar.setFloatable(false);
        printB.setText("Print");
        printB.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
                printBActionPerformed(evt);
        toolBar.add(printB);
        toolBar.add(printerField);
        getContentPane().add(toolBar, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        setBounds((screenSize.width-500)/2, (screenSize.height-500)/2, 500, 500);
    private void printBActionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
        PrinterJob pj=PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
        pj.setPrintable((Printable)panel);
        PrintService[] services = pj.lookupPrintServices();
        boolean ok = false;
        for( int i=0; i < services.length; i++ ){
            System.out.println("Available PrintService: '"+services[i]+"'");
            if(services.toString().equalsIgnoreCase( printerField.getText() ) ){
try{
pj.setPrintService(services[i]);
ok=true;
}catch(PrinterException ex){
System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
if(ok){
try{
pj.print();
}catch (PrinterException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}else{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,"Printer not available");
public static void main(String args[]) {
new Print_Demo().setVisible(true);
private JButton printB;
private JToolBar toolBar;
private JPanel panel;
private JTextField printerField;
class MyPanel extends JPanel implements Printable{
public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.drawRect(100,100, 100,100);
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat,
int pageIndex) throws PrinterException {
if(pageIndex>0) {
return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
paint(g);
return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;