At the end of last year, my friends and I were tasked to read our staff card. The main objective was pretty simple which is to create a library where we don’t have to depend on the vendor every time we want to read our own staff card and the library should also work in Linux and Windows (that means Java to us).
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.