A print job is a request of printing something in a specific print service. It consists, basically, by:
After picking-up the right print service instance, we can request the creation of a print job:
DocPrintJob printJob = printService.createPrintJob();
The DocPrintJob
interface provide us the print
method:
printJob.print(doc, pras);
The doc
argument is a Doc
: the data that will be printed.
And the pras
argument is a PrintRequestAttributeSet
interface: a set of PrintRequestAttribute
. Are examples of print request attributes:
The print method may throw a PrintException
.