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PostScript Always Selects Default Printer, OSX Java 7 #154

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
This valuable information was submitted via the mailing list.  Bug marked as 
accepted, since this is reproducible.  Will have to investigate further as to 
the specific cause of this issue.  Email quoted below:

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Hi Tres, 

I'm sorry it took so long to get back with my progress.  The issue with 
PostScript prints always being sent to the default printer is certainly due to 
an issue with the latest Java browser plugin Java 7 Update 25.  I can't say if 
it's also a problem with earlier Java 7 versions.  The solution was to get my 
browser Java plugin reverted to Java SE 6.   It's my understanding that all 
Macs come with a full JDK installed and my version happens to be 1.6.0_51.  The 
Firefox plugin now reports Java Plug-In 2 for NPAPI Browsers 14.8.0.  Here is 
how to reinstate the Java 6 browser plugin on Macs using the terminal: 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559?viewlocale=en_US

This is a perfectly acceptable configuration step in ensuring our applications 
can meet our client's printing needs on Mac machines.  Most of them to date run 
Windows, though we are anticipating an increase in Macs.  All this considered, 
I am going to press forward with a jZebra integration in two of our core 
applications.  I really like the direction you are taking jZebra particularly 
with the serial communication support.  It's possible that we will have a need 
for this in the future particularly with scale integration.  I am going to 
forward your donate page to the Operations Director here and recommend that the 
company donate to jZebra before its release at the end of the year.  Great job 
again with jZebra.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tres.fin...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2013 at 1:38