How can i know the status of the specific printer in java

Question

Is there a way to find the below properties from the printer ?

Printer is installed or not Printer is connected or not Paper out or any error

I used javax.print API , this help me to print a documents in the printer and it list down 4 attributes

printer-is-accepting-jobs: accepting-jobs

printer-name: myPrinter

queued-job-count: 0

color-supported: not-supported

But I don't know how to get the above peroperties from the printer API. I found that there is something called PrinterStateReason, But I don't know how to get the PrinterStateReason for my printer. I have tried getting it from the attributeset. But I couldn't.

Please help me on the above issues

Answer 1

Use javax.print. For details look here