Problem with printing generated pdf.

Question

Hello!
I need to print pdf file, that was generated by my application. I am using Apache FOP to generate pdf (xml+xslt). For printing I am using Maxatec MT-150 receipt printer. Seems, that pdf is generated successfully, because I can open it and I also can print it using Windows interface. However, when I am sending it to printer in my JAVA application, printed file is just set of unreadable characters and black lines. I was trying to use different DocFlavors, like DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE, DocFlavor.URL.AUTOSENSE, but neither had a luck. My code looks like this:
PrintService receiptPrintService = getReceiptPrinterService(printerName);
DocPrintJob printJob = receiptPrintService.createPrintJob();
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File("StatusReport.pdf"));
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(fis, DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.AUTOSENSE, null);
printJob.print(doc, null);
private static PrintService getReceiptPrinterService(String printerName) {
          PrintService[] services = PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(null, null);
          for (PrintService printService : services) {
               if (printerName.equals(printService.getName())) {
                    return printService;
          return null;
     }For some reason I cannot set DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.PDF, as it throws following exception: sun.print.PrintJobFlavorException: invalid flavor. (despite the fact that I can pdf using the same printer, but through Windows interface)
So, I really don't see what is the problem. Should I use something in my xslt template to specify content type? currently I have:
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" omit-xml-declaration="no" indent="yes"/>Any help would be appreciated.
Alexander.

Answer 1

@Dick_Adams
I am sorry, but what error message are you talking about? The only error I get is "sun.print.PrintJobFlavorException: invalid flavor" and as far as I understand it depends on printer, what is supported and what is not supported. Or am I wrong? I am using standard java.awt.print library.
@AndrewThompson64, thanks for the tip!)) It does print correctly, but in this case I am not sure I have enough possibilities to control printing. For instance, my pdf was printed as landscape, but I need portrait.