Meaning of printing error

Submitted by pyevet on Fri, 11/07/2014 - 17:08

Implementation discussion

G'day all'

Anyone know the meaning of:

Failed to generate report: java.awt.print.PrinterException: Not a 2D print service: IPP Printer : LexmarkOptraS1255

Regards, Simon

Re: Meaning of printing error

Submitted by tanderson on Fri, 11/07/2014 - 18:22.

Not really. The error is probably coming from the underlying printer implementation. You can see a version of the sources here:

http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java/6.0-JDK-Modules-sun/print/sun/pri...

The relevant section is:

  if (service.isDocFlavorSupported(DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE) &&
      service.isDocFlavorSupported(DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PRINTABLE)) {
    myService = service;
  } else {
    throw new PrinterException("Not a 2D print service: " + service);
  }

So it sounds like the printer or service isn't reporting what it supports correctly.

Try updating the drivers.

Re: Meaning of printing error

Submitted by pyevet on Mon, 14/07/2014 - 11:31.

Thanks Tim, I've got the latest CUPS drivers, but the newest Lexmark driver is 2012 and they say this printer has been eol since 2007. I'll give that driver a go. Maybe the .ppd file might be able to be tweaked. That can wait for now, there is a new printer to use and I need to move on to setting up some reports. It'd be a shame to put down the old work-horse while there's some life left.

Thinking of reports, Mary looked in http://www.openvpms.org/category/template-file/report-templates and http://www.openvpms.org/templates for invoices and statements but couldn't find any. I thought I saw some a couple of months ago, but can't find them now. Know where to look for that sort of templates or report, or do I need to make them from scratch?

Regards, Simon

Simon Slater

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