i am designing a software to control a printer on a network like telling who is printing, how many pages have been printed and by who, and i want to use java to code all this please help what are the basics to get me started
You can't control a printer queue from Java; of course you can print or make another application print something. Read the API documentation for the "Desktop" class and the API documentation for most of the classes that start with "Print" or "Printer".
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