How to Specify Attributes
Whether you are
printing or streaming data, you specify attributes in the same way.
You will usually use PrintRequestAttribute more often than the
other kinds of attributes because print request attributes specify
the settings for an entire print job. Because you will most likely
want to specify more than one attribute for a particular job, you
need to create an attribute set. This sample demonstrates creating
a PrintRequestAttributeSet that instructs the service to use A4
media to print five copies of the job using both sides of the
paper:
PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet(); aset.add(new Copies(5)); aset.add(MediaSize.ISO_A4); aset.add(Sides.DUPLEX);
After creating an attribute set, you will pass it to the print
job's print method, along with the DocFlavor. The Specifying Document Types
discusses using DocFlavor. The Printing and Streaming
Documents chapter discusses how to print. The next section
explains some of the more commonly-used attributes in more
detail.
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