This lesson teaches you how to use the Java Printing API to print from
your Java applications. You'll learn how to render the contents of your
components to a printer instead of a display device and how to compose
and print multipage documents. This lesson assumes that you've read the
first lesson in this trail,
Overview of the Java 2D API,
and that you
are familiar with using a Graphics2D rendering context.
This section gives you an overview of the support for printing AWT and
Java 2D graphics and describes the Java printing model.
This section teaches you how to create a PrinterJob and how to use a
Printable to print the contents of a component.
This section describes the standard page setup dialog and teaches you
how to use it to allow a user to set up a print job.
This section teaches you how to set up a
Book
to print a collection of
pages that do not all have the same size or orientation.
Before you ship any programs with printing code,
be sure to read
Improving Printing Performance.