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+package lu.hrs.mirth;
+
+import java.awt.print.PrinterException;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.DataOutputStream;
+import java.net.Socket;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.Base64;
+
+import javax.print.DocFlavor;
+import javax.print.SimpleDoc;
+import javax.print.StreamPrintServiceFactory;
+import javax.print.attribute.HashPrintRequestAttributeSet;
+import javax.print.attribute.PrintRequestAttributeSet;
+import javax.print.attribute.standard.Copies;
+import javax.print.attribute.standard.MediaSizeName;
+import javax.print.attribute.standard.PageRanges;
+import javax.print.attribute.standard.Sides;
+
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.printing.PDFPrintable;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.printing.Scaling;
+
+import com.itextpdf.html2pdf.HtmlConverter;
+
+/**
+ * Prints certain types of documents on a network printer.<br>
+ * <br>
+ * The specialty about this class is that the printer does not have to have the driver for the desired printers configured on the
+ * client system. <br><br>
+ * <i><b><u>This Class needs the following libraries:</u></b><br><br>
+ * <u>For transforming PDF to postscript:</u><br>
+ * pdfbox-2.0.jar<br>
+ * fontbox-2.0.jar<br><br>
+ * <u>For transforming html to PDF:</u><br>
+ * commons-logging-1.1.1.jar<br>
+ * html2pdf-2.1.1.jar<br>
+ * io-7.1.4.jar<br>
+ * kernel-7.1.4.jar<br>
+ * layout-7.1.4.jar<br>
+ * slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar<br>
+ * slf4j-simple-1.7.25.jar<br>
+ * styled-xml-parser-7.1.4.jar<br>
+ * svg-7.1.4.jar<br>
+ * </i><br>
+ * (newer versions of the libraries might work as well)
+ * 
+ * @author ortwin.donak
+ *
+ */
+public class NetworkPrinting {
+
+	/**
+	 * Sends a text to a network printer using UTF-8 encoding
+	 * 
+	 * @param text
+	 *            The text that should be printed
+	 * @param printerIdentifier
+	 *            The ip or qualified name of the printer
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 *             View exception message for details
+	 */
+	public static void printText(String text, String printerIdentifier) throws Exception {
+		printText(text, null, printerIdentifier);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Sends a text to a network printer
+	 * 
+	 * @param text
+	 *            The text that should be printed
+	 * @param encoding
+	 *            The encoding of the text <i>(DEFAULT: "UTF-8")</i>
+	 * @param printerIdentifier
+	 *            The ip or qualified name of the printer
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 *             View exception message for details
+	 */
+	public static void printText(String text, String printerIdentifier, String encoding) throws Exception {
+		if (encoding == null) {
+			encoding = "URF-8";
+		}
+
+		// try to create a connection to the printer
+		Socket printer = new Socket(printerIdentifier, 9100);
+		// and get a handle to the output stream
+		DataOutputStream printerFeed = new DataOutputStream(printer.getOutputStream());
+		printerFeed.write(text.getBytes(encoding));
+
+		// clean up
+		printer.close();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Prints an html file on a network printer
+	 * 
+	 * @param html
+	 *            The self-containing html file (images, etc. must be included)
+	 * @param printerIdentifier
+	 *            The fully qualified name or ip of the network printer
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 *             View exception message for details
+	 */
+	public static void printHtml(String html, String printerIdentifier) throws Exception {
+		// convert the html page to pdf
+		ByteArrayOutputStream pdf = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+		HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(new ByteArrayInputStream(html.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)), pdf);
+		// print the pdf file
+		printPdf(pdf.toByteArray(), printerIdentifier);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Prints a base64-encoded document on a network printer. The network printer does not need to be configured at the server.<br>
+	 * <br>
+	 * <i>This functionality needs the following Apache libraries: pdfbox-2.0.jar, fontbox-2.0.jar (or higher)</i>
+	 * 
+	 * @param encodedDocumentToPrint
+	 *            The base64-encoded document that should be printed
+	 * @param printerIdentifier
+	 *            The name or ip of the network printer to which the document should be sent
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 *             Mainly if the printer is not known or not accessible,
+	 */
+	public static void printPdfBase64(String encodedDocumentToPrint, String printerIdentifier) throws Exception {
+		printPdf(Base64.getDecoder().decode(encodedDocumentToPrint), printerIdentifier);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Prints a PDF-document on a network printer. The network printer does not need to be configured at the server.<br>
+	 * <br>
+	 * <i>This functionality needs the following Apache libraries: pdfbox-2.0.jar, fontbox-2.0.jar (or higher)</i><br>
+	 * <br>
+	 * <p style="color:Gainsboro;">
+	 * This is necessary as we bypassing the printers driver (as there is none installed on the requesting system). Thus, the function has to take
+	 * care for transforming the file to postscript and to directly communicate with the printer. For doing so, it hijacks an existing postscript
+	 * driver of another printer.
+	 * </p>
+	 * 
+	 * @param documentToPrint
+	 *            The PDF-document that should be printed
+	 * @param printerIdentifier
+	 *            The name or ip of the network printer to which the document should be sent
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 *             Mainly if the printer is not known or not accessible
+	 */
+	public static void printPdf(byte[] documentToPrint, String printerIdentifier) throws Exception {
+
+		// speed the rendering up
+		System.setProperty("sun.java2d.cmm", "sun.java2d.cmm.kcms.KcmsServiceProvider");
+
+		// check for any driver that are capable of postscript printing
+		DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PRINTABLE;
+		StreamPrintServiceFactory[] factories = StreamPrintServiceFactory.lookupStreamPrintServiceFactories(flavor,
+				DocFlavor.BYTE_ARRAY.POSTSCRIPT.getMimeType());
+		// are there any?
+		if (factories.length == 0) {
+			// nope - sorry but won't work on this system. Install postscript printer driver first...
+			throw new PrinterException("No PostScript factories available");
+		}
+
+		// try to create a connection to the printer
+		Socket printer = new Socket(printerIdentifier, 9100);
+		// and get a handle to the output stream
+		DataOutputStream printerFeed = new DataOutputStream(printer.getOutputStream());
+
+		// now get the attachment content
+		ByteArrayInputStream documentData = new ByteArrayInputStream(documentToPrint);
+		// load the pdf document
+		PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(documentData);
+		documentData.close();
+
+		// Attributes are specified by https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/
+		// see package javax.print.attribute.standard
+		PrintRequestAttributeSet printingAttributes = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
+		// set European page size
+		printingAttributes.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
+		// printing should be double sided
+		printingAttributes.add(Sides.DUPLEX);
+		// set number of pages to be printed
+		printingAttributes.add(new PageRanges(1, document.getNumberOfPages()));
+		// create an implicit print job and print the document to the anonymous network printer
+		factories[0].getPrintService(printerFeed).createPrintJob()
+				.print(new SimpleDoc(new PDFPrintable(document, Scaling.ACTUAL_SIZE, false), flavor, null), printingAttributes);
+
+		// clean up
+		printer.close();
+		document.close();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Prints a document on a network printer
+	 * 
+	 * @param documentToPrint
+	 *            The document that should be printed
+	 * @param printerIdentifier
+	 *            The name or ip of the network printer to which the document should be sent
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 *             Mainly if the printer is not known or not accessible
+	 */
+	public static void printOnNetworkPrinter(Object documentToPrint, String printerIdentifier) throws Exception {
+
+		// check for any driver that are capable of postscript printing
+		DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PRINTABLE;
+		StreamPrintServiceFactory[] factories = StreamPrintServiceFactory.lookupStreamPrintServiceFactories(flavor,
+				DocFlavor.BYTE_ARRAY.POSTSCRIPT.getMimeType());
+		// are there any?
+		if (factories.length == 0) {
+			// nope - sorry but won't work on this system. Install postscript printer driver first...
+			throw new PrinterException("No PostScript factories available");
+		}
+
+		// try to create a connection to the printer
+		Socket printer = new Socket(printerIdentifier, 9100);
+		// and get a handle to the output stream
+		DataOutputStream printerFeed = new DataOutputStream(printer.getOutputStream());
+
+		// now get the document content
+		ByteArrayInputStream document = new ByteArrayInputStream((byte[]) documentToPrint);
+
+		// Attributes are specified by https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/
+		// see package javax.print.attribute.standard
+		PrintRequestAttributeSet printingAttributes = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
+		// set European page size
+		printingAttributes.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
+		// printing should be double sided
+		printingAttributes.add(Sides.DUPLEX);
+		// set number of pages to be printed
+		// printingAttributes.add(new PageRanges(1, document.getNumberOfPages()));
+		// just 1 printout
+		printingAttributes.add(new Copies(1));
+		// create an implicit print job and print the document to the anonymous network printer
+		factories[0].getPrintService(printerFeed).createPrintJob().print(new SimpleDoc(document, flavor, null), printingAttributes);
+
+		// clean up
+		printer.close();
+		document.close();
+	}
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+		
+		// String printer = "SOME_PRINTER.YOUR.DOMAIN"; (e.g. "192.168.12.10" or "PrinterLab02.someHospital.com")
+		
+		// The following example loads a pdf from file system 
+		// byte[] testfile = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("c:/temp/PrintTest.pdf"));
+		// NetworkPrinting.printPdf(testfile, printer);
+		
+		// IF you want to do it on the fly, use
+		// NetworkPrinting.printPdfBase64(Base64Attachment, printer);
+		
+		// You can also print an HTML document
+		// NetworkPrinting.printHtml(html, printer);
+		
+		// Or simply text:
+		// NetworkPrinting.printText("### THIS IS A TEST ###\n\nTEST TEST TEST", printer);
+	}
+
+}