Why does printing from SUSE linux using the figure window or the MATLAB editor drop down fails with Java exceptions?

The following exceptions are generated when trying to print from a figure:

 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: services must be non-null and non-empty

    at javax.print.ServiceUI.printDialog(Unknown Source)

    at com.mathworks.page.export.printdlg.Printdlg.setVisible(Printdlg.java:453)

These exceptions are generated when trying to print from the editor:

 Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" 

 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: services must be non-null and non-empty

    at javax.print.ServiceUI.printDialog(Unknown Source)

    at com.mathworks.widgets.SyntaxTextPaneBase.printDocument(SyntaxTextPaneBase.java:2027)

    at com.mathworks.widgets.SyntaxTextPaneMultiView.printDocument(SyntaxTextPaneMultiView.java:663)

    at com.mathworks.mde.editor.EditorView.doPrint(EditorView.java:1127)

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

These errors may occur when the print system is set up to use CUPS with authentication. If the CUPS system is set up to require user names and/or passwords then Java is unable to determine the printer.

To work around this issue, the 'AuthType' defined in the file

 /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

(default location) should be set to 'None'.