The JavaTM Tutorial

| Start of Tutorial > Start of Trail | Search Feedback Form

Trail: 2D Graphics

## Lesson: Printing

> 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.

### Overview of Printing in Java

> This section gives you an overview of the support for printing AWT and Java 2D graphics and describes the Java printing model.

### Printing the Contents of a Component

> This section teaches you how to create a `PrinterJob` and how to use a `Printable` to print the contents of a component.

### Displaying a Page Setup Dialog

> 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.

### Printing a Collection of Pages

> 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.

| Start of Tutorial > Start of Trail | Search Feedback Form

Copyright 1995-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.