Sides JDK 1.6)

Description

publicfinal class Sides

Class Sides is a printing attribute class, an enumeration, that specifies how print-stream pages are to be imposed upon the sides of an instance of a selected medium, i.e., an impression.

The effect of a Sides attribute on a multidoc print job (a job with multiple documents) depends on whether all the docs have the same sides values specified or whether different docs have different sides values specified, and on the (perhaps defaulted) value of the MultipleDocumentHandling attribute.

If all the docs have the same sides value n specified, then any value of MultipleDocumentHandling makes sense, and the printer's processing depends on the MultipleDocumentHandling value:
- SINGLE_DOCUMENT -- All the input docs will be combined together into one output document. Each media sheet will consist of n impressions from the output document.
- SINGLE_DOCUMENT_NEW_SHEET -- All the input docs will be combined together into one output document. Each media sheet will consist of n impressions from the output document. However, the first impression of each input doc will always start on a new media sheet; this means the last media sheet of an input doc may have only one impression on it.
- SEPARATE_DOCUMENTS_UNCOLLATED_COPIES -- The input docs will remain separate. Each media sheet will consist of n impressions from the input doc. Since the input docs are separate, the first impression of each input doc will always start on a new media sheet; this means the last media sheet of an input doc may have only one impression on it.
- SEPARATE_DOCUMENTS_COLLATED_COPIES -- The input docs will remain separate. Each media sheet will consist of n impressions from the input doc. Since the input docs are separate, the first impression of each input doc will always start on a new media sheet; this means the last media sheet of an input doc may have only one impression on it.
- SINGLE_DOCUMENT -- All the input docs will be combined together into one output document. Each media sheet will consist of n_i impressions from the output document, where i is the number of the input doc corresponding to that point in the output document. When the next input doc has a different sides value from the previous input doc, the first print-stream page of the next input doc goes at the start of the next media sheet, possibly leaving only one impression on the previous media sheet.
- SINGLE_DOCUMENT_NEW_SHEET -- All the input docs will be combined together into one output document. Each media sheet will consist of n impressions from the output document. However, the first impression of each input doc will always start on a new media sheet; this means the last impression of an input doc may have only one impression on it.
- SEPARATE_DOCUMENTS_UNCOLLATED_COPIES -- The input docs will remain separate. For input doc i, each media sheet will consist of n_i impressions from the input doc. Since the input docs are separate, the first impression of each input doc will always start on a new media sheet; this means the last media sheet of an input doc may have only one impression on it.
- SEPARATE_DOCUMENTS_COLLATED_COPIES -- The input docs will remain separate. For input doc i, each media sheet will consist of n_i impressions from the input doc. Since the input docs are separate, the first impression of each input doc will always start on a new media sheet; this means the last media sheet of an input doc may have only one impression on it.

IPP Compatibility: The category name returned by getName() is the IPP attribute name. The enumeration's integer value is the IPP enum value. The toString() method returns the IPP string representation of the attribute value.

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Methods

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public Object clone () [Inherited From EnumSyntax]

Returns a clone of this enumeration value, which to preserve the semantics of enumeration values is the same object as this enumeration value.

publicfinal Class<Attribute> getCategory ()

Get the printing attribute class which is to be used as the "category" for this printing attribute value.

protected EnumSyntax getEnumValueTable () [Overrides EnumSyntax]

Returns the enumeration value table for class Sides.

publicfinal String getName ()

Get the name of the category of which this attribute value is an instance.

protected int getOffset () [Inherited From EnumSyntax]

Returns the lowest integer value used by this enumeration value's enumeration class.

protected String getStringTable () [Overrides EnumSyntax]

Returns the string table for class Sides.

public int getValue () [Inherited From EnumSyntax]

Returns this enumeration value's integer value.

public int hashCode () [Inherited From EnumSyntax]

Returns a hash code value for this enumeration value.

protected Object readResolve () throws ObjectStreamException [Inherited From EnumSyntax]

During object input, convert this deserialized enumeration instance to the proper enumeration value defined in the enumeration attribute class.

During object input, convert this deserialized enumeration instance to
the proper enumeration value defined in the enumeration attribute class.
Returns: The enumeration singleton value stored at index i-L in the enumeration value table returned by {@link #getEnumValueTable() getEnumValueTable()}, where i is this enumeration value's integer value and L is the value returned by {@link #getOffset() getOffset()}.
Throws:
- ObjectStreamException - if the stream can't be deserialised
- InvalidObjectException - Thrown if the enumeration value table is null, this enumeration value's integer value does not correspond to an element in the enumeration value table, or the corresponding element in the enumeration value table is null. (Note: {@link java.io.InvalidObjectException InvalidObjectException} is a subclass of {@link java.io.ObjectStreamException ObjectStreamException}, which readResolve() is declared to throw.)

public String toString () [Inherited From EnumSyntax]

Returns a string value corresponding to this enumeration value.

Fields

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publicfinalstatic Sides DUPLEX

An alias for "two sided long edge" (see TWO_SIDED_LONG_EDGE).

publicfinalstatic Sides ONE_SIDED

Imposes each consecutive print-stream page upon the same side of consecutive media sheets.

publicfinalstatic Sides TUMBLE

An alias for "two sided short edge" (see TWO_SIDED_SHORT_EDGE).

publicfinalstatic Sides TWO_SIDED_LONG_EDGE

Imposes each consecutive pair of print-stream pages upon front and back sides of consecutive media sheets, such that the orientation of each pair of print-stream pages on the medium would be correct for the reader as if for binding on the long edge.

publicfinalstatic Sides TWO_SIDED_SHORT_EDGE