1. Install CUPS-PDF based on your distro, you can download if from here.

2. Go to http://localhost:631.

3. If the page requested a username and password, just enter your root as username and password for your root.

4. Go to Administration > Add Printer.

5. In the Add Printer page, put a name for your virtual PDF printe, any name will do. Then click Continue.

6. For the Device for a, you should select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF Driver). If it’s not there, then you haven’t executed Step 1 successfully.

Apparently, there’s a bug in Java where people using newer version of CUPS cannot print (can’t even display the print dialog) due to a null pointer exception and this is actually a known bug. So, how do we fix this? For people who use Gnome, you can refer to this page.

This will resize your JTable column width based on the contents of the header and data.

Apparently there’re some codes scattered on the net telling people that you can print to a Zebra printer by sending ZPL II codes using PrintService. But the problem is, it’s not working, I don’t know why, maybe because of a different version of printer or model but I’m pretty sure the thing that came out from the printer are just ordinary texts not barcode which is what the code was supposed to output.

This guide is more towards Netbeans project, but it can be used as a reference for you to customize the script to suit your needs.