There are two commonly-used ways for producing paper printouts:

• Create PDF via PDF/FOP processing and make it available in the user's browser. This is what the example in the section The First PDF Document does.

• Directly print FOP to a server side printer. This is what this section is about.

Server side printing is done via the interface IPDFFOPService:

public interface IPDFFOPService
{
    public String generateXSLFO();     
    public byte[] generatePDF();
    public void print(String printerName) throws FOPPrintException;
    public byte[] generatePDFfromFOXML();
    public ILog getLog();
    public Protocol getProtocol();
    public String getTranslationFileName();
}

By using the method print(...), you can send a document directly to a printer.